Minutes - Oct 5, 2015 Reg. Meeting

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BK -00027 PG:0897 conditions to be implemented through a conditional use permit or other appropriate mechanisms to address any impacts that are not adequately addressed by applicable state and federal regulations. Section 12-104. Jurisdiction. This ordinance shall apply to all of Lee County except for those areas included with incorporated municipalities and their extraterritorial jurisdictions. Section 12-105. Definitions. The words and phrases defined in this Section shall have the following meaning when found in this Ordinance: (1) "Drilling" shall mean the sinking, penetrating, boring, or digging of a shaft or hole in the earth for any purpose. (2) "Gas" shall mean all natural gas, including casing -head gas, coal -bed methane, and all other hydrocarbons not defined as oil in Subsection (6). (3) "Horizontal Drilling" shall mean drilling at an angle greater than three degrees from vertical. (4) "Hydraulic Fracturing," or "Fracturing," or "Fracking" shall mean all stages of the treatment of a well by the application of hydraulic fracturing fluid under pressure that is expressly designed to initiate or propagate fractures in a target geologic formation to enhance production of oil or gas. (5) "Natural Features" shall mean the water resources, land resources, air resources, geologic resources, animal species, and plant species within a municipality's boundaries. (6) "Oil" shall mean crude petroleum oil and other hydrocarbons, regardless of gravity, which are produced at the well in liquid form by ordinary production methods, and which are not the result of condensation of gas after it leaves the reservoir. (7) "Oil or Gas Development" shall mean all or any part of the process of exploration, development or production of oil or gas, including without limitation, drilling, casing, operation, fracturing, completion, plugging and abandonment of wells, pads, impoundments and other associated activities. (8) "Oil or Gas Operator" shall mean a person who acquires a lease or other property interest in surface and/or subsurface lands for the purpose of conducting exploration for or extracting oil or gas. (9) "Oil or Gas Owner" shall mean the person who has the right to drill into and to produce from any pool, and to appropriate the production either for himself or for himself and others. (10) "Person" shall mean any natural person, corporation, association, partnership, receiver, trustee, guardian, executor, administrator, fiduciary, or representative of any kind. (11) "Water Supply" or "Water Resources" shall mean any groundwater or surface water intended or used for human consumption; household purposes; farm, livestock, or garden purposes; or for conservation and preservation purposes.