(a) No person shall engage in the business of well drilling in the United States Virgin Islands without first obtaining a license from the Commissioner as hereinafter provided. Such licenses are required not only of those who make a regular business of well drilling, but of all who may put down wells for others as an incident to any line of business activity. Well drillers' licenses are not required for strictly private operations when a property owner by his own labor puts down a well on his own property to supply his own dwelling or the needs of his animals or crops.
(b) Application for a well driller's license shall be made on a form prescribed and furnished by the Commissioner providing such information as the Commissioner deems necessary for the purpose of the issuance of such licenses. The number of the license must be displayed on the well-drilling machinery of the licensee. The fee for such license shall be twenty-five dollars annually.
(c) Within 30 days after the completion or the termination for any reason of the drilling of any well, whether or not any water is found, a report shall be filed by the driller on forms furnished and prescribed by the Commissioner, indicating the log of the well, materials encountered, with depth below ground surface, water bearing beds, yields and water levels in each, casings, screens, pumping tests, the size and depth of the well, the capacity of the pump or pumps attached or to be attached thereto and such other information pertaining to the withdrawal of water and the operation of such well as the Commissioner may deem necessary. The driller shall at the request of the Commissioner also furnish samples of the materials encountered in the drilling of the well, which shall be taken at intervals of five feet or at every change of formation.
(d) This section will become effective 30 days after the issuance of regulations governing well drillers' licenses.