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101 which addresses the County's ordinance -making powers related to oil and gas development; and (5) the Lee County Moratorium Ordinance. Section 12-103. Purpose. The purpose of the moratorium is to allow the Lee County Board of Commissioners time to: 1) complete the 2030 Land Use Plan; 2) review the Mining and Energy Commission's regulations and other state and federal regulations applicable to oil and gas development to determine whether such regulations adequately protect the County and its citizens from the impacts of hydraulic fracturing and other oil and gas development activities; and, 3) develop standards and 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. risdictions. Section 12-105. Definitions. The words and phrases dnjal in this Sectionshall have the following meaning when found in this Ordinance: (1) "Drilling" shall mean the sinking, penetra 'ing, boring, or,digging of a,sfiaft or hole in the earth for any purpose. (2) "Gas" shall mean all natural ga,"s, 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 greate14han three degrees from vertical. (4) "Hydraulic fracturing," or, "Fracturing," or "Tracking" 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) "Mining" or "Traditional Mining" shall have`the same definition as that found under "Mining" in the Unified Development Ordinance in Appendix A on page A-41. (6) "Natural Features" shall mean the water resources, land resources, air resources, geologic resources, animal species, and plant species within a municipality's boundaries. (7) "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. (8) "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. (9) "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.