§ 16.16.040. Operations requiring permits.

A.

No person shall perform an oil and gas or geothermal resource exploration or development project, as defined in subsection (F) of Section 16.16.030, without first having obtained from the commission a permit for an oil and gas or geothermal resources exploration or development project pursuant to Section 16.16.080 of this chapter.

B.

No person shall undertake any temporary exploratory probe without first having obtained from the commission a permit for temporary exploratory probe. All holes drilled under such permit shall be drilled and sealed within three hundred sixty-five days, or such time as may otherwise be approved by the commission, from the time of commencement of actual drilling operation.

(Ord. 499 § 1 (part), 1976: prior code § 10425)