2009 North Carolina Code
Chapter 113 - Conservation and Development.
§ 113-395. Notice and payment of fee to Department before drilling or abandoning well; plugging abandoned well.
§ 113‑395. Notice and payment of fee to Department before drilling or abandoning well; plugging abandoned well.
Before any well, in search of oil or gas, shall be drilled, the person desiring to drill the same shall notify the Department upon such form as it may prescribe and shall pay a fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) for each well. The drilling of any well is hereby prohibited until such notice is given and such fee has been paid and permit granted.
Each abandoned well and each dry hole promptly shall be plugged in the manner and within the time required by rules to be prescribed by the Department, and the owner of such well shall give notice, upon such form as the Department may prescribe, of the abandonment of each dry hole and of the owner's intention to abandon, and shall pay a fee of fifteen dollars ($15.00). No well shall be abandoned until such notice has been given and such fee has been paid. (1945, c. 702, s. 15; 1973, c. 1262, s. 86; 1987, c. 827, s. 113.)
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