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HomeMy WebLinkAbout113_Drilling & Mining within City LimitsORDINANCE NUMBER 113 AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING DRILLING OR MINING FOR OR PRODUCING OIL, GAS, COAL OR OTHER MINERALS WITHIN THE TOWN LIMITS OF THE TOWN OF OWASSO, OKLAHOMA, DECLARING SUCH DRILLING, MINING AND PRODUCING TO CONSTITUTE A NUISANCE, INJURIOUS TO THE HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE OF THE TOWN OF OWASSO, PROVIDING EXEPTIONS; PROVIDING SEVERABILITY OF PROVISIONS; MAKING VIOLATIONS OF THIS ORDINANCE A MISDEMEANOR; PROVIDING PENALTIES; PROVIDING EACH VIOLATION EXISTS TO BE A SEPARATE OFFENSE, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN OF OWASSO, STATE OF OKLAHOMA: Section 1. DRILLING--MINING PROHIBITED. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association or the agents, servants or employees thereof, to hereafter drill or mine for or produce, or cuase to be drilled, mined or produced, any oil gas, coal or other mineral within the corporate limits of the Town of Owasso, Oklahoma. any person, firm, corporation or association, or the agents, servants or employees so acting are hereby declared to be guilty of constructing, establishing or maintaining a nuisance against the public health, safety and welfare of The Town of Owasso, and provided that each day such drilling, mining or producing for or of oil, gas, coal or other minerals occurs shall constitute a deparate offense. Section 2. CONSTRUCTION. It shall be unlawful and an offense for any person hereafter to do or perform any work or labor of any kind upon or in connectino with the drilling, mining or producing of oil, gas, coal or other products within the corporate limits of The Town of Owasso, Oklahoma. Section 3. ASSISTING IN VIOLATION OF ORDINANCE PROHIBITING NUISANCE. It shall be unlawful and an offence for any person, firm, association or corporation to wilfully furnish, supply or provide, transport or deliver, or cause to be furnished, providedsupplied, transfered or delivered, any material, tools, pipe, machinery or supplies, with knowledge that same is to be used upon or in connection with the drilling, mining or producing of oil, gas, coal or other products within the corporate limits of The Town of Owasso, Oklahoma; provided that such act shall be considered as assisting, and aiding in the creation of a public nuisance, and each act shall be a separate offense. Section 4. PUBLIC NUISANCE A MISDEMEANOR. Every person who maintains or cimmits any public nuisance the pubishment for which is not otherwise prescribed, or who wilfully omits to perform and legal duty relating to the removal of a public nuisance, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Section 5. EXCEPTIONS. (a) Operations began Before Effective Date. The provisions of this ordinance shall not apply to the operation or maintenance of any oil, gas or mining operations being lawfully carried on prior to the effective date of this ordinance. (b) Cleaning out or Plugging of Oil and Gas Wells. Nothing in this ordinance shall be construed to prohibit the cleaning out or pluggin of oil and gas wells within the corporate limits of The Town of Owasso, when said cleaning out of pluggin has been determined by resoltion or ordinance governing body of The Town of Owasso to be in the interest of the public health, safety and welfare. Section 6. PROVISIONS SEVERABLE. The provisions hereof are bereby declared to be servable, and if any section, part of section, paragraph, sentence or clause of this Ordinance is for any reason held invalid or inoperative by any court or competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect any other section, part of section, paragraph, sentence or clause hereof. Section 7. PENALTY. any person, firm, corporation or association violating any provision of this ordinance shall be guilty of an offense, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine in an amount not to exceed the sum of Twenty Dollars ($20.00), including costs; provided that each day in which such ciolation takes place shall constitute a separate and distinct offense. PASSED, by the Board of Trustees of The town of Owasso, Oklahoma, and the Emergency Clause voted upon separately and passed by unanimous vote of the Board of Trustees of The Town of Owasso, Oklahoma, this 5th day of May, 1969. APPROVED by the President of the Board of Trustees of the Town of Owasso, Oklahoma, this 5th day of May, 1969. STATE OF OKLAHOMA, TULSA COUNTY, ss. Bill R. Retherford, of lawful age, being duly sworn, upon oath deposes and says that he is the publisher of the owass e o o r t- e r ........ , a newspaper printed in the English language, in the City of 0.77 PI S 9 ............ Tulsa County, Oklahoma, iiavin'g'a bona fide paid general circulation therein, and with entrance into the United States mail as second class mail matter in Tulsa County and published in said county where delivered to the United States mail, and that the notice by publication, a copy of which is hereto attached, was published in said newspaper for .. 91�� ............ consecutive weeks, the first publication being on the 81-h , z ....... k� . ............... day of 601. and the last day of publication being on the . Pa-.-M. ................ day of .............. 19 . . . . . .. and that said newspaper has been continuously and uninterruptedly published in said county during the period of more than One Hundred and Four (104) weeks consecutively, prior to the first publication of said notice, or advertisement, as required by Section one, Chapter' four, Title 25 Oklahoma Session Laws, 1943, as amended by House Bill No. 495, 22nd Legislature, and thereafter, and complies with all of the prescriptions and require- ments of the laws of Oklahoma. (The advertisement above referred to is a true and printed copy. Said notice was editions s ewspap and of in a d ed I ns paid, e pub'.i, supplement th 2-r . . . . . .......... Subscribed and sworn to before me by Bill R. etherford, Dwasso IR'eporter publisher of the . .......................... y 69 this . 9 t . h day of . . . ita ...... 19 �kotary Public' My commission expires �-26.-70 ............. 30,. 17 PUBLISHER'S FEE $........ .