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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #332 I i ORDINANCE NO. 332 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 224 OF SAID CITY ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH PROVIDING FOR THE LICENSING OF THE BUSINESS OF MAINTAINING, ,CONDUCTING AND OF OPERA.T- ING OF OIL WELLS AND DERRICKS WITHIN SAID CITY FOR THE PURPOSE OF REVENUE AND REGULATION" AS AMENDED. The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach do ordain as follows: SECTION 1, That Section 4 of Ordinance No. 224 of said City en- titled "An Ordinance of the City of Huntington Beach, providing for the licensing of the business of maintaining, conducting and operating of oil G wells and derricks within said City for' the purpose of revenue and regu- lation" as amended, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: SECTION 4® Whenever ordered so to do by the City Council of the City• of Huntington Beach, it shall be the duty of the City Clerk of said I City to prepare and issue a license under this ordinance for the person, j I persons, firm, co-partnerships association or corporation liable to pay j a license hereunder, duly signed by the City Clerk, an& to state in such— license the date thereof, the period of time for which the same shall run, the name of the applicant or licensee, for whom issued, and the location or place of business where such business is to be carried on. Applica- tions for such license shall be filed with the City Clerk, which applica- tion shall be signed by the licensee or some authorized representative or agent of the licensee on its behalf, showing (1) the name of the person, persons, firm, co-partnership, association or corporation on who,%e behalf the application is made, and (2) the name of. the builder (if said derrick is to be built by ,contract), (3.) the name of the contractor. or sub-lessee. (`if said derrick is to be_ drilled by contract or under a sub-lease) , i i (4) a description of the property whereon said oil derrick or other structure is to be erected, giving the exact location thereof on the property; (5) the principal place of business of the applicant or licensee and whether or not it is a person, persons, firm, co-partner- ship, association, syndicate or corporation, and if a co-partnership 'the names of the partners, if an association or syndicate the names of the trustees or managers or general agents or superintendents thereof; (6) a financial statement of the licensee and any contractor and builder who may be shown by said application to be the one who shall erect said derrick or drill said well, upon forms to be provided by the City Clerk therefor, which said application shall be verified by the applicant or some duly authorized agent in his or its behalf. The said application shall be accompanied by a- -bond sufficient in form to guarantee to the property owner, and to the City of Huntington Beach that any structure, derrick, sump.-hole, debris or other material placed upon the said prem- ises by the licensee or its agents, will be removed ,fr,om said premises 'within ninety (90) days after the cessation of labor and abandonment of ,said'oil well or the-business of exploring for oil upon said premises. Said bond shall inure to the benefit of the owner of. the property upon which said oil well or derrick is located and to :'the City of Huntington Beach in and for the exercises by the latter of its police power. Said bond shall be in the penal sure of Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) ,and which said bond shall be signed by two good and sufficient sureties and by the 'principal, which said sureties shall sign statements { showing their financial responsibility, and which said sureties -shall be satisfactory to the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach. No agent, employe, officer or representative of the City of Hunting ' ton Beach or any department thereof, shall ever be required to disclose or to testify to any facts set forth in the financial statement above re- ferred to, or to display or exhibit the 'same to any .person whatsoever except members of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach. m 2 v 1 Said application shall also be accompanied by-,a- verified state- went showing that applicant has made arrangements for the disposition of waste water and rotary mud from said derrick and what said arrange ments may be. The City Clerk shall present said application, together with its i accompanying papers to the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach at its next session, and the City Council shall thereupon consider the said application. The said City Council may continue the hearing upon said application from time to time for the purposes of determining the financial responsibility of the bondsmen, the business integrity and financial responsibility of the applicant, and the efficiency and prop- priety of the waste water disposal plan or system contemplated. The said City Council may require alterations and changes .as may appear to them to be necessary and convenient to the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, and may require additional or other bondsmen or security for the same purpose. No building permit shall be issued by the building inspector of the City of Huntington Beach for the construction or erection of any oil derrick or other structure to be used in connection with the drill- ing for, discovery and production of oil, gas or other hydro-carbon substances unless and until a license has been issued for the conduct of said business under the provisions ;of this- ordinance, and no building permit shall be hereafter issued for the construction or erection of any derrick for the production of oil, gas or other hydro-carbon substances within one hundred twenty-five (125) feet .of any other such derrick, i any oil' or gas storage tank, oil refinery, gasoline absorption plant, gas combustion plant, or any plant, structure, apparatus, or machinery pumping$ handling or treating gas, oil, or 'the by-products of gas or oil, oir any highway, dwelling .or other place of human habitation, except that is. perliit may be issued for the construction of such .derricks provided 3 - ,I 0 the same are constructed of steel or other noncombustible material. No combustible material in such derrick-shall be used in the construct- ion of any permanent platform attsached to the derrick above the floor thereof. SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published by one insertion in the Huntington Beach News, a weekly newspaper printed, published and circulated in said City of Huntington Beach, and thirty (30) days there- after it shall take effect and be in force. 'Passed aid adopted this day or/ , 1930 ._J V or o t e City oHuntington eac ATT ' .� City Clerk io Clerk of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beachs California I STATE OF CALIFORNIA County of Orange ss City of Huntington Beach ) I, C.R.FURR, - City Clerk and Ex-Officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach do hereby eerat�a fyrthe ,t the foregoing ordinance was introduced and read at a regularmeefLng of the City Coun® oil held on the -y day of , 1930, and was again read to said City Councin the a y o , 1930s at a reg- ular meeting of the said Board, and tha ai .. or iinance was adopted by the following vote: AYES. Trustees - NOES Trustees ABSENT .Trustees .�'�9z•-r i City Clerk and' icio erk of the City Council-_of;the "City of Huntington BEach,, . Cal-z_pornia 4