§ 19-10. Authority to prohibit drilling on particular location.

The city council shall have the power, and reserves the authority, to refuse any application for a permit to drill and operate any well at any particular location within any drilling block where, by reason of such particular location the character and value of the permanent improvements already erected on or approximately adjacent to the particular location in question, and the use to which the land and surroundings are adapted for school, college, university, hospital, or civic purposes, or for health reasons, or for safety reasons, or any of them, the drilling or operation of such well on such particular location might be injurious or a disadvantage to the city, or to its inhabitants as a whole, or to a substantial number of its inhabitants or visitors as a group.

(Ord. No. 929, § 8, 4-12-60)