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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #521 t�- ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 515 ENTITLED "AN ORDIN- ANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACHI CALIF- ORNIA, PROVIDING CERTAIN REGULATIONS GOVERN- ING THE DRILLING OF OIL WELLS WITHIN SAID CITY." The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach do ordain as follows: Section 1: That a new Section shall be added to . Ordinance No. 515 to be inserted immediately after Section 4, the same to be known as Section 4a and to read as follows: "Section 4a: Notwithstanding the provisions of this ordinance the City Council may grant to any person, firm or corporation a special permit to file a bond to cover all drilling operations of said person, firm or corporation after hearing of special application therefor. Said application shall set forth the maximum number of wells to be drilled at any one time. The amount of said bond shall not be less than $1,000.00 for each well drilling at any one time. The City Council shall set the penal sum of said bond. Each application for a drilling permit shall refer to the bond by number and state the number of wells drilling and for which the liability of the bond has not yet been terminated. Upon the completion of each well, the said permittee shall ter- minate the liability of the bond with respect to said com- pleted well as set forth in Section 7 hereof." Section 2: That Section 6 of said Ordinance 515 is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 6: Waste Water Tank: After an oil well has been placed on production asmetal tank not in excess of 100 `•J Ord. 521 • barrels capacity may be constructed or erected on said property for the purpose of temporary storage of waste water and the ordinary waste and residue from producing oil wells. Said tank shall be covered at all times and the fluid level shall not be allowed to reach above one foot from the top and shall be installed into the ground, the top of which shall not extend more than six (6) inches above the level of the ground. Section 3: The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption 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 the City of Huntington Beach, Orange County, California, and thirty days after the adoption hereof the same shall take effect and be in force. PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL of the City of Huntington Beach, California, this 24th . day of Nov. , 1947. MAYOR. ATTEST: City. Clerk -2- Or�iinanra ATn Ord. 5 21 ► STATE OF CALIFORNIA County of Orange ) ss City of Huntington Beach ) I, JOHN L. HENRICKSEN9 the duly elected, qualified and acting City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach and ex-officionClerk of the City Council of said City of Hunt- ington Beach, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach is five; that the foregoing Ordinance was first read to said City Council at a rezular meeting thereof held on the 1.7th .. day ,_of November ,, 1947, .AnO was again read to said City Council at an adjourned meeting thereof held on the 24th day of November ,._. 1947_1. and was. pass e..d and adopted by the affirmative, vote of more than a majority of all the members of said City Council as follows: AYES: Councilmen Greer, Terry, Hawes, Langenbeck, Bartlett . NOES: Councilmen None ABSENT: Councilmen None ty Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of Huntington Beach, Calif- ornia -3- Ordinance No.