CC RESOLUTION 311121
RESOLUTION NO. 311.
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, GRANTING
TO REPUBLIC PETROLEUM COMPANY, LTD., A
ZRMIT FOR THAT CERTAIN OIL WELL IN SAID
CITY DESIGNATED AND KNOVIN AS "REPUBLIC NO.1 ".
WHEREAS, application has been made to the City of
El Segundo, California, by REPUBLIC PETROLEUM COIdPANY, LTD.,
for a permit, for that certain oil well within said city,
hereinafter referred to;
AND, WHEREAS, after consideration of the said
application, the City Council Of said City, is disposed to
grant same, subject to the terms and conditions, regulations
and requirements hereinafter set forth;
NOW, TIEREFORE, the City Council of the city of
E1 Segundo, California, does resolve, declare and determine
as follows:
SECTION 1. That the Republic Petroleum Company,
Ltd., a California corporation, is hereby licensed and
permitted to erect one derrick for the purpose of drilling
for oil, gas and /or other hydrocarbon substances, and also
to install and operate the necessary drilling equipment therein
for the purpose of drilling a well for oil, gas or other
hydrocarbon substances, and also to install and operate the
necessary machinery and equipment for operating the said well.
SECTION 2. That said license or permit shall be
subject to all of the terms and conditions, requirements and
regulations set forth in the following form of permit issued
to the said licensee. The said form of permit is as follows:
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"P E R M I T
"THIS IS TO CERTIFY that REPUBLIC PETROLEUM
COMPANY,LTD., a California Corporation, authorized to do
business in the State of Calilbmia, was under date of
February 14th, 1935, by the legislative body of the City
of El Segundo, County of Los Angeles, State of California,
granted pa rmission to erect one derrick for the purpose of
drilling for oil, gas, and/or other hydrocarbon substances,
and also to install and operate the necessary drilling equip-
ment therein for the purpose of drilling a well for oil, gas
or other hydrocarbon substances, and also to install and
operate the necessary machinery and equipment for operating
the said well upon the following express terms and condi-
tions, each and every one of which must be observed and
performed promptly by the licensee (whenever the same become
applicable) in order to keep this permit in full and conti-
nuing force and effect.
Said terms and conditions are as follows:
First: Said derrick and its appurtenant structures
shall be erected at a point to be selected by the licensee
on the following described real property located in the City
of E1 Segundo, County of Los Angeles, State of California,
t o-wit:
Commencing at the N 1/4 co mer of Section
18, Tovinship 3 South, Range 14 West, thence
West 495 Feet and South 495 Feet, in the
City of E1 Segundo, County of Los Angeles,
and the said well shall be knoval and is hereby designated as
'REPUBLIC NO. 11.
Second: Said Licensee shall pay to the City of
E1 Segundo, California, the full amount of any license fee
which may now or hereafter be reasonably required under the
ordinances or laws of said City, or regulations of the
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legislative body thereof, and vhich applies to or has
reference to any such derrick or well, sad which said
license fee, if and when provided for, must continue to
be paid as long as drilling operations, drilling, mining,
pumping or other operations in and about said derrick or
well continue, including the production therefrom of oil,
gas or other hydrocarbon substance from a flowing well,
and as long as such derrick remains standing, and the same
shall be promptly paid as the same becomes due and payable
to said city. No fee or license fee paid, or any part
thereof, shall be refunded.
Third: Said derrick and /or any appurtenant
strmoture shall not be erected nearer than ten feet to the
nearest property line of ark* public street, avenue or
highway, or nearer than twenty -five feet to any existing
dwelling, except upon the written permission of the owner
of such dwelling duly signed and filed with the building
inspeotor of said City.
Fourth: Licensee agrees to furnish as drilling
progresses, a full, true sad correct copy of the log of
said well for the use of said city in ascertaining the
possibilities for a municipal water supply within the dis-
triot, to a depth of not to exceed one thousand feet, and
thereafter said licensee shall, if requested, notify said
city of any water strata encountered and recorded by it,
and the depth thereof.
Fifth: The said licensee shall, on request of
the legislative body of said city, routs all heavy materials
and heavy loads of materials brought to or from said well,
over smh streets as the said legislative body may direct;
provided, however, that such streets shall be appropriately
posted, at the expense of such city.
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Eleventh: That the said licensee shall imme-
diately at its o m cost and expense, cause to be completely
repaired to the satisfaction of the Street Superintendent
of the City of El Segundo, California, any and all damage
to any public street, avenue, laps, way, alley or place
within the said city which may be occasioned by it or by
any of its agents or employees, in or by reason of the
transportation of materials or supplies, or equipment, or
production, either to or from the said derrick or well or
by reason of any overflow therefrom. Said licerBee shall
also co-operate with the authorities of said City of E1
Segundo, in the apprehension of any other persons damaging
public property, when delivering materials, equipment,
supplies or production, either to Or from this said well.
Twelfth: That the said licensee shall at all
times during the construction and operation of tfre said
well permit the Chief of Police of said City and his offi-
cers, and the City Engineer of said City and/or his authorized
deputy to enter upon the said premises and into the said
derrick at their oven risk, so far as licensee is concerned,
and the said Chief of Police and his officers, and the said
City Engineer and his deputy shall have free ant unmolested
right to so enter upon the said promises and into the said
derrick and structures appurtenant thereto, for the purpose
of ascertaining whether or not all of the terms and condi-
tions of this permit are being observed and kept by said
licensee.
Thirteenth: 911 of the terms and conditions
herein stated, in the opinion of the legislative body of
said city, are required for the purpose of protecting the
public peace, health, safety and welfare of the said City
of E1 Segundo, and particularly that portion of the public
residing in the vicinity of the proposed well herein referred.
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to, and the licensee above named by accepting this permit
and electing to operate under the same, hereby acquiesces
in the findings of the said legislative body in such regard,
and further agrees to each, all and every one of the tears
and conditions set forth in this permit and promises and
agrees to perform each and all of them on its part to be
kept and performed.
Fourteenth: This permit is not assignable except
by written consent of the legislative body of the said City
of E1 Segundo, California, first had and obtained; or ex-
cept to a subsidiary or parent corporation of the licensee,
but no such assignment shall operate to relieve the licensee
herein from any obligations imposed or created herein with-
out the consent of such legislative body first had and
obtained, nor shall any such assignment be operative for
any purpose unless and until such assignee shall have filed
its written acceptance of the teens and conditions hereof.
Fifteenth: This peaait lapses and becomes auto-
matically void unless the derrick to be erected hereunder
is so erected and completed within sixty days from date
hereof, unless a further extension of time within which to
complete the same is granted in writing by the legislative
body of said city.
Sixteenth: Nothing in this permit contained
shall be construed as limiting or abridging the power or
rights of the legislative body of said city to prescribe
more or less stringent provisions in any future permit
which may be granted by said legislative body within said
city.
Seventeenth: Any notice to be given under the
pmvisions of this peanit will be deemed sufficient if
deposited in the United States post office at either Los
Angeles, California, or E1 Segundo, California, postage
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prepaid, addressed to the licensee or the City of El
Cal�ifo
Segundo, as e a ease may be, as follows: City of E1
Segundo, care of City Clerk, City Hall, E1 Segundo,
California, and as to the Licensee: Republic Petroleum
Company, Ltd., 811 West Seventh Street, Los Angeles,
Calilbrnia. The day of actual service as contemplated
herein shall be construed to be the day following that
upon which such notice is actually deposited in the post
office.
Eighteenth: The City Council reserves the right,
noon ten days notice to licensee of the breach of any of
the terms and/or conditions herein set forth, and the
failure of licensee to remedy any such breach within said
period, to cancel and revoke this permit, forthwith and
without any liability therefor on the part of said city,
or any of its officers or agents.
Nineteenth: It is further agreed and made a
particular condition hereof that the said derrick will be
actually located and constructed, fully rigged and with
necessary appurtenances, boilers, engine, pipes, etc.,
required to efficiently operate same, within sixty days
from date hereof and that said well will be actually spudded
in within ninety days from date hereof, end that same will
be diligently end continuously operated thereafter, with
full crews, until sage is completed or finally abandoned.
IN WITNESS �MERECIF, this permit has been issued
to said licensee above named this 14th day of February, A.D.,
1935, upon orders of the legislative body of said City, ex-
pressed by resolution of said Body, heretofore adopted.
Building Inspector of e City
of El Segundo, Calilbrnia.
AT TE S T:
City Clerk
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El Segundo, California.
, 1935.
REPUBLIC PETROLEUM COMPANY, LTD., Licensee above
named, does hereby consent to all of the conditions, agree-
ments, terms and requirements set forth in the foregoing
permit, does hereby agree to same and does hereby further
promise and agree to observe and abide by the same and
each and all of them on its part to be kept and performed,
and does hereby positively state and declare that this
consent and agreement is supported by an adequate and
valuable consideration passing to it, receipt of which is
hereby expressly acknowledged.
REPUBLIC PETROLEUM COMPANY, LTD.
By
Vice-President
By
Secretary
LICENSEE
The foregoing permit is approved by me as to
provisions.
mayor o:r y of E'1 Segando,
California.
The foregoing permit is approved by me as to foxm.
City Attorney of the ity 0
El Segundo, California. "
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SECTION 3. That the Building Inspector of
the City of E1 Segundo, California, is hereby authorized
and instructed to issue the said permit hereinabove re-
ferred to to said licensee, and the City Clerk of said
City is hereby authorized and instrwted to attest the
same and to affix the official seal of said City thereto,
upon receipt of a duplicate copy of the said form of
p3 anit duly executed on the part of said City and accepted
in writing by the Republic Petroleum Company, Ltd., the
form of acceptance hereinabove set forth and which con-
stitutes a part of the consideration for the issuance of
said ps rmit.
SECTION 4. That the City Clerk shall certify
to the passage and adoption of this resolution; shall
cause the original of the same to be entered in the book
of resolutions of said City, and shall make a minute of
the passage and adoption thereof in the records of the
proceedings of the City Council of said City in the
minutes of the meeting at which the same is passed and
adopted.
Passed, approved and adopted this 13th day of
February, A. D., 1935.
P
Mia r Of City of El To_g'tLi o,
Calif orni a.
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SrATL 02 CALIFORNIA, )
COMITY 0�' LOS ANGLLE6, ) SS.
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CITY OF :L SEGUIMO. )
I, VICTOR D. IYICCARTHY, City Clerk of the
Oity of El Segundo, California, do hereby certify that
the whole number of members of the City Council of the
said City is five; that the foregoing resolution, being
Resolution No. 311, was duly passed and adopted by the
said City Council, approved and signed by the I;iayor of
said City and attested by the City Clerk of said City,
all at a regular meeting of the said Council held on
the 13th day of February, D., 1935, and that the same
was so passed and adopted by the following vote :
Ayes: Councilmen Gerow, Hesser, Selby and
Mayor Binder ;
Noes. Councilmen None
Absent: Councilmen Love
(SEAL)
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