All persons, firms, corporations, and associations are prohibited from wilfully permitting natural gas wastefully to escape into the atmosphere.
Chapter 2Wasting of Natural Gas
Section § 3500
This regulation makes it illegal for anyone, including individuals, businesses, and organizations, to allow natural gas to escape into the air in a wasteful manner.
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Section § 3501
This law requires anyone who digs, owns, or controls a well with natural gas to properly close it when it's no longer in use. The purpose is to prevent the unnecessary escape of natural gas into the air. Additionally, if you own the land with such a well, you must not intentionally allow gas to be released wastefully into the atmosphere.
Any person, firm, corporation, or association who digs, drills, excavates, constructs, or owns, or controls a well from which natural gas flows shall, upon the abandonment of the well, cap or otherwise close the mouth of or entrance to the well in such a manner as to prevent the unnecessary or wasteful escape of natural gas into the atmosphere.
No person, firm, corporation, or association who owns or controls land in which such a well is situated shall wilfully permit natural gas flowing from the well wastefully or unnecessarily to escape into the atmosphere.
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Section § 3502
This law states that if someone intentionally breaks any rule in this chapter, they commit a misdemeanor. The penalties include a fine of up to $1,000, a jail sentence of up to one year, or both.
Any person, firm, corporation, or association who wilfully violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
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Section § 3503
This law states that if natural gas is intentionally wasted or allowed to escape into the air without necessity, each day it occurs counts as a separate violation.
Each day during which natural gas is wilfully allowed wastefully or unnecessarily to escape into the atmosphere is a separate and distinct violation of this chapter.
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