No permit shall be granted or issued for the drilling of a well except upon ground held by the applicant under an oil and gas lease or drilling contract from the owner, giving the owner’ s permission to drill the well; and when a permit shall have been issued, the same shall terminate and become inoperative without any action on the part of the council, unless within thirty (30) days from the date of issue, actual drilling of the well shall have commenced and the cessation for a like period of the drilling operations, or the cessation of production of oil or gas from the well after production shall have commenced, shall operate or terminate and cancel the permit, and the well shall be considered as abandoned for all purposes of this chapter, and it shall be unlawful thereafter to continue the operation or drilling of such well without the issuance of another permit. (Prior code § 28-1-6)