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Home My WebLink About10727 ORD - 03/01/19723 /l /72 :BJw k AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 8879, REFERRED TO AS "THE LAND DRILLING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI ", AS AMENDED, BY ADDING A SUBPARAGRAPH "F" TO SUBSECTION 6.32 SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR SAFER ABANDONMENT PROCEDURE WHEN CASING IS TO BE RECOVERED FROM A WELL; PROVIDING SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING PUBLICATION; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: pppp SECTION 1. THAT ORDINANCE N0. 8879, AS AMENDED, OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS, IS HEREBY AMENDED BY ADDING A SUBPARAGRAPH "F" TO SUBSECTION 6.32, SAID SUBPARAGRAPH "F" TO READ AS FOLLOWS: "F. WHENEVER OPERATIONS UNDER SUBPARAGRAPH A. AND B. OF THIS SUB- SECTION 6.32 ARE EMPLOYED THEN THE FOLLOWING FURTHER REQUIREMENTS WILL BE COMPLIED WITH: 1. WHEN CASING IS TO BE SHOT OR CUT OFF AND PULLED, A ,BLOWOUT PREVENTER WITH PIPE AND BLANK RAMS EQUIPPED TO CLOSE OFF AROUND THE CASING TO BE PULLED SHALL BE INSTALLED PRIOR TO SHOOTING OR CUTTING OFF THE CASING. 2. IN ALL CASES PRIOR TO CUTTING ANY CASING, THE ANNULUS BETWEEN THE CASING TO BE RECOVERED AND THE SURFACE STRING OF CASING WILL BE TESTED TO DETERMINE WHETHER THIS ANNULUS IS DEAD OR PRESSURED. IN THE EVENT IT IS PRESSURED THEN NO CASING WILL BE RECOVERED UNTIL THIS PRESSURE IS RELEASED TO ZERO AND THE ANNULUS FILLED WITH MUD LADEN FLUID. 3. THE WELL SHALL HAVE A SAFETY VALVE INSTALLED ON THE TOP OF THE CASING STRING BEFORE ANY CASING IS SHOT OR CUT OFF. THIS SAFETY VALVE SHALL NOT BE REMOVED UNTIL THE FIRST JOINT OF CASING HAS BEEN PULLED AND SHALL THEN BE KEPT IMMEDIATELY AT HAND SO THAT IT MAY BE, IF NEEDED, REINSTALLED. 4. THE WELL SHALL BE COMPLETELY FILLED AT ALL TIMES WITH MUD LADEN FLUID OF NOT LESS THAN 9.50 PER GALLON DURING ALL CASING AND TUBING OPERATIONS. PERIODIC CHECKS WILL BE MADE OF THE MUD FLUID DURING DISPLACING OPERATIONS. 5. OPERATOR SHALL HAVE A RESPONSIBLE REPRESENTATIVE AT THE WELL SITE DURING THE SETTING AND TAGGING OF CEMENT PLUGS AND DURING THE CASING PULLING OPERATIONS, TO INSURE THAT THE PROCEDURES OUTLINED IN THE "NOTICE OF INTENT TO PLUG AND ABANDON" FILED WITH THE RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS ARE COMPLIED WITH AND TO INSURE THAT OTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS ORDINANCE ARE COMPLIED WITH." SECTION 2. IF FOR ANY REASON ANY SECTION, PARAGRAPH, SUBDIVISION, CLAUSE, PHRASE OR PROVISION OF THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE HELD INVALID BY FINAL JUDGMENT OF A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION, IT SHALL NOT AFFECT ANY VALID x.0'727 h: _ PROVISIONS OF THIS OR ANY OTHER ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI TO WHICH THESE RULES AND REGULATIONS RELATE. SECTION 3. PUBLICATION SHALL BE MADE ONE TIME IN THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, AFTER FINAL PASSAGE, WHICH PUBLICA- TION SHALL CONTAIN THE CAPTION STATING IN SUBSTANCE THE PURPOSE OF THE ORDI- NANCE AND RECITING THE PENALTY FOR VIOLATION OF THE ORDINANCE. SECTION 4. THE NECESSITY TO AMEND ORDINANCE 8879 AS OUTLINED ABOVE WITHOUT DELAY CREATES A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND IMPERATIVE PUBLIC NECESSITY REQUIRING THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE THAT NO ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION BUT THAT SUCH ORDI- NANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT THREE SEVERAL MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, AND THE MAYOR HAVING DECLARED SUCH EMERGENCY AND NECESSITY TO EXIST, AND HAVING REQUESTED THE SUSPENSION OF THE CHARTER RULE AND THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE OF ITS INTRODUCTION AND TAKE EFFECT AND BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE AND PUBLICATION, IT IS ACCORDINGLY SO ORDAINED, THIS THE /J_t DAY OF MARCH, 1972. ATTEST: / 1 CITY SECR LDAY APPROVED: T OF MARC , 1972: CIT ATTORNEY d 0 MAYOR THE CITY 0 CORPU C ISTI, TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI, ./j�Ty�E /XAS DAY OF CLi - Q.Z+C�i./ , 19 %Z1 TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS FOR THE REASONS SET FORTH IN THE EMERGENCY CLAUSE OF THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE, A PUBLIC EMERGENCY AND IMPERATIVE NECESSITY EXIST FOR THE SUSPEN- SION OF THE CHARTER RULE OR REQUIREMENT THAT NO ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE PASSED FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCED, AND THAT SUCH ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION SHALL BE READ AT THREE MEETINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL; I, THEREFORE, REQUEST THAT YOU SUSPEND SAID CHARTER RULE OR REQUIREMENT AND PASS THIS ORDI- NANCE FINALLY ON THE DATE IT IS INTRODUCED, OR AT THE PRESENT MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL. >RE LLY, ' a ,o MA OR THE CITY OF CORP C ISTI, TEXAS THE CHARTER RULE WAS SUSPENDED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: RONNIE SIZEMORE CHARLES A. BONNIWELL ROBERTO BOSQUEZ, M.D. REV. HAROLD T. BRANCH ' THOMAS V. GONZALES GABE LOZANO, SR. J. HOWARD STARK THE ABOVE ORDINANCE WAS PASSED BY THE FOLLOWIN VOTE: RONNIE SIZEMORE CHARLES A. BONNIWELL ROBERTO BOSQUE2, M.D. REV. HAROLD T. BRANCH THOMAS V. GONZALES GABE LOZANO, SR. J. HOWARD STARK PUBLISHER'S AFFIDAVIT STATE OF TEXAS County of Nueces. Before me, the undersigned, a Notary public, this day personally came .................................. ......... ............. ... ...... who being first duly sworn, according to law, says that he is the .Ma.&B1fAAd..Managex .................................... of the Corpus Christi Caller and The Corpus Christi Times, Daily Newspapers published at Corpus Christi, Texas, in said County and State, and that the publication of Ljkqjki - Notice of pasBaqe of ordinance no. 10727 --- amending ordinance no. 887s- --refiiiiir";Ei i�i*,TK4i,*Uiia--viii-i-iiii:--ai�a--aiaiiiiiiia-i;-.�-_-----15-Y add ni g ----- a iwy-- paragraph of which the annexed is a true copy, was published in ........... tht Ti*tt ..................................................... --.. 'P on the4th... day of Marcb ..................... 19.72- and-oiwe-eaolip ........................... 41'eveater4ow ........................... QfiW&W1AUVa ......... .............................................. one ....................Times. $-.5.25 ....................... Subscribed and sworn to before me L*uis* Vick tary Public, Nueces County, Texas 14 .10