HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #575 ORDINANCE NO o 575
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 515 ENTITLED "AN
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH,
CALIFORNIA , PROVIDING CERTAIN REGULATIONS
GOVERNING THE DRILLING OF OIL WELLS WITHIN
SAID CITY," AS AMENDED.
The City Council of. the City of Huntington Beach
does ordain as follows:
Section 1: That Section 4 of Ordinance No. 515
be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Section 4: It shall be unlawful for any person,
firm, partnership or corporation to drill, redrill, whipstock,
sidetrack or deepen, or to otherwise recondition any well where
new hole is made, unless he first make written application to
the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach. Said appli-
cation shall be upon such form as may be prescribed by the
City Council; and shall be accompanied by a bond sufficient
in form to guarantee to the property owners and to the City
of Huntington Beach that any sump or reservoir, mud or drilling
residue , loose lumber, cables , unused machinery and debris will,
be removed from said premises within sixty days after comple- •
tion of said well. Said bond shall inure to the owners of the,
property upon which said well is drilled and to the City oft
Huntington Beach, and shall be in the penal sum of $1,OOOo00, •
Said bond shall be signed by the principal and by two
good and substantial sureties or issued by a bonding
` company authorized to issue bonds of such character in the
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State of California. The City Engineer shall examine and.
investigate said application, place his endorsement thereon
and present the same to the City Council at the next regular
meeting or adjourned regular meeting of said City Council.
The City Council shall examine said application and grant or
reject the same."
Section 2: 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 2nd day of July+,
1951.
A
Mayor Pro-tem
ATTEST:
City Clerk
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Ord. 575
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
County of Orange ) ss
City of Huntington Beach )
I, JOHN L. HENRICKSEN, the duly elected, qualified
and acting City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach and
ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of said City, 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 regular
meeting thereof held on the 26th day of June , 19517
and was again read to said City Council at a regular meeting
thereof held on the 2nd day of July , 1951, and was
passed and adopted by the affirmative vote of more than a
majority of all the members of said City Council as follows:
AYES: Councilmen:
Greer, Talbert , LeBard, Seabrid ge
NOES: Councilmen:
None
ABSENT: Councilmen:
Langenbeck
Ci Clerk and ex-officio Clerk
of he City Council of the City
of Huntington Beach, California.
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