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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
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• 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
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► 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
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