§ 413.4 — Same—Authority to regulate or prohibit drilling of wells

Sec. 413.4. - Same—Authority to regulate or prohibit drilling of wells.

The said board, subject to such supervision and direction as may be given to it by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Memphis and the Quarterly County Court of Shelby County, shall have the power and authority to regulate the drilling of wells within Shelby County, the size, bore and depth of same, the quantity of water pumped therefrom, and shall have the right to prohibit the drilling of any and all wells within said County. The said board may require the filing with it of an application to drill a well in Shelby County, which application it shall have authority to grant or deny. The board may, by regulation, exempt from its supervision and control the drilling and operation of wells of less than a certain bore and depth, and the drilling and operation of wells in areas fixed by it. The board is empowered to set up by regulation the machinery for conducting hearings upon applications to construct and bore wells with the County, and if such machinery is set up, the board shall keep minutes of its proceedings, and make minute entries of its decisions in all matters. The action of the said board in all matters coming within its jurisdiction shall be final. The said board shall have no power to regulate or prohibit the drilling of wells by any municipality in Shelby County or by the light, gas and water division of the City of Memphis, or any commission, board, or authority which shall succeed to the powers and duties of providing the public water supply for the City of Memphis now exercised by the said light, gas and water division of the City of Memphis.

(Priv. Acts 1949, ch. 498, §§ 5, 7)