Every person who digs, drills, excavates, constructs, owns, or controls any abandoned water well or abandoned oil well, and every person owning or having possession of any premises on which any such abandoned well exists, shall cap or otherwise close the mouth of or entrance to such well in such manner as to prevent persons from falling therein and in such a manner that such capping or covering cannot be removed by accident or inadvertence, or such person shall fill such a well. (2002 Code § 17-1.2).