§ 19-12. Number of permits per drilling block.

There shall not be more than one well drilled within any drilling block for each producing sand area within such drilling block, whether such well is proposed on publicly or privately owned lands, it being intended that no single drilling block will have more than one well within such drilling block producing from the same producing sand. Where more than one producing sand is found within a drilling block, a separate permit may be issued to the permittee within such drilling block, if any, or his assigns, granting the right to such permittee or his assigns the right to drill an additional well to each of the separate producing sands. When practicable, wells discovering more than one sand shall be completed as dual-producing wells, it being intended to minimize the number of drilling operations conducted in any one drilling block; provided, however, not more than one permit shall be granted for the drilling of a well classified by the Railroad Commission of Texas as a gas well to each one hundred sixty (160) acres or a larger unit, as the "Spacing Rules" of the Railroad Commission of Texas so provide, and any permittee shall be allowed to combine such number of drilling units as hereinabove set forth so as to have a solid block of one hundred sixty (160) acres or larger for each well classified by the railroad commission as a gas well; and nothing herein shall be construed as prohibiting any permittee from utilizing any drilling block or part of a drilling block that lies within the city limits with other leases or leasehold estates outside the city limits which cover and include state leases, notwithstanding the fact that they might lie within the city limits.

(Ord. No. 929, § 10, 4-12-60)