Chapter 018 - Oil and Gas Production - City of Brenham

which applicant has secured the rights from the owner to drill; designation of lots or tracts owned
or controlled by the applicant within the drilling unit, and the distances from the well location to
all parks, streets, alleys or other public property, residence, commercial buildings and structures
situated within two hundred (200) feet of the well location.
(b) A copy of Railroad Commission Form 1.
(B) Each application shall be accompanied by a cashier's check in the amount of one hundred dollars
($100.00), made payable to the city, which shall be a filing fee. Each supplemental application shall furnish the
information and conform with the requirements set forth in subsection (A) of this section, insofar as the same
are relevant to the authority requested therein, but need not be accompanied by any additional filing fee. Each
application or supplemental application shall be filed by the city manager and kept as a part of the public
records of the city.
(Ord. of 2-10-69, § 5)
Sec. 18-5. Filing of permit application or supplemental application and notice.
(A) An application to drill, or a supplemental application, shall be filed with the city manager for
action in issuing or refusing to issue a permit.
(B) Notice of the filing of each application shall be given by publication by the applicant which such
notice shall be in words and figures, as follows:
"Notice is hereby given that ________, acting under and pursuant to the terms and provisions of an
ordinance regulating the drilling, completion and operation of oil wells and of gas wells within the limits
of the City of Brenham, Texas, and establishing restrictions thereon, being Chapter 18 of the Code of
Ordinances, and any and all ordinances amendatory thereof, did on the ________ day of ________,
19________, file with the City Manager of the City of Brenham an application to drill, complete and
operate a well for oil (or gas) upon Lot No. ________, Block No. ________, (or other appropriate
description), City of Brenham, Texas, as per map of record in Volume ________, Page ________, Plat
Records of Washington County, Texas, in Drilling Unit No. ________."
Such notice shall be published, at expense of applicant, in every issue of a daily newspaper of the city
for ten (10) days prior to the date of the granting or refusal of such application. Proof of such publication shall
be made by the printer or publisher of the newspaper by affidavit filed with the city manager and shall be prima
facie evidence of such publication.
(Ord. of 2-10-69, § 6)
Sec. 18-6. Well location.
No well shall be drilled and no permit shall be issued for any well to be drilled in any location within a
drilling unit which location is nearer than two hundred (200) feet from any residence or building without the
applicant's having first secured the written permission of the owner or owners thereof, nor shall any well be
drilled within any of the streets or alleys, parks or other public property unless authorized by an ordinance duly
passed by the governing body of the city.
(Ord. of 2-10-69, § 7)