As used in this subchapter:
CHEMICAL DUMP SITE. Any place or area where chemicals or other waste materials used or produced in a clandestine drug lab have been located.
CHILD. Any person less than 18 years of age.
CLANDESTINE DRUG LAB. The unlawful manufacture or attempt to manufacture controlled substances. Only those labs which law enforcement determine may contain residual contamination that could be harmful to the occupants are subject to this chapter.
CLANDESTINE DRUG LAB SITE. Any place or area where law enforcement has determined that conditions associated with the operation of a clandestine drug lab exist. A clandestine drug lab site may include residential, commercial, industrial or institutional structures, accessory buildings, accessory structures, motor vehicles, a chemical dumpsite or any land.
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE. A drug, substance or immediate precursor in Schedules I through V of R.C. § 3719.41. The term does not include distilled spirits, wine, malt beverages, intoxicating liquors or tobacco.
HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTES. Waste generated from a clandestine drug lab. Such wastes shall be treated, stored, transported or disposed of in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local regulations.
MANUFACTURE. In places other than a pharmacy or a licensed pharmaceutical manufacturing facility, means and includes the production, cultivation, quality control, and standardization, by mechanical, physical, chemical or pharmaceutical means, packing, repacking, tableting, encapsulating, labeling, relabeling, filling, or by other process, of controlled substances.
MOTOR VEHICLES. Shall have the same meaning as in R.C. § 4501.01.
OWNER. Any person, firm or corporation who owns, in whole or in part, the land, buildings, or structures associated with a clandestine drug lab site or chemical dump site.
PUBLIC HEALTH NUISANCE. Includes all residential, commercial, industrial or institutional structures, accessory structures and buildings associated with a clandestine drug lab site that are potentially unsafe due to health hazards.
(Ord. 7-12, passed 5-14-2012)