Pub. Resources Code, § 3208 · Article 4. Regulation of Operations
Pub. Resources Code, § 3208
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) For the purposes of Sections 3206 and 3207, a well is properly abandoned when it has been shown, to the satisfaction of the supervisor, that all proper steps have been taken to isolate all oil-bearing or gas-bearing strata encountered in the well, and to protect underground or surface water suitable for irrigation or farm or domestic purposes from the infiltration or addition of any detrimental substance and to prevent subsequent damage to life, health, property, and other resources. For purposes of this subdivision, proper steps include the plugging of the well, decommissioning the attendant production facilities of the well, or both, if determined necessary by the supervisor.
(b) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2018.
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History
Repealed (in Sec. 15) and added by Stats. 2016, Ch. 272, Sec. 4. (AB 2729) Effective January 1, 2017. Section operative January 1, 2018, by its own provisions.
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- Pub. Resources Code, § 3008Printed as Section 3208
- Pub. Resources Code, § 3190Printed as Section 3208
- Pub. Resources Code, § 3190.8Printed as Section 3208
- Pub. Resources Code, § 3205.1Printed as Section 3208
- Pub. Resources Code, § 3205.3Printed as Section 3208
- Pub. Resources Code, § 3205.7Printed as Section 3208
- Pub. Resources Code, § 3205.8Printed as Section 3208
- Pub. Resources Code, § 3206Printed as Section 3208
- Pub. Resources Code, § 3206.1Printed as Section 3208
- Pub. Resources Code, § 3206.1.5Printed as Section 3208
- Pub. Resources Code, § 3207Printed as Section 3208
- Pub. Resources Code, § 3403.5Printed as Section 3208
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