For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CHEMICAL DUMPSITE. Any place or area where chemicals or other waste materials used 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.
CLANDESTINE DRUG LAB SITE. Any place or area where law enforcement has determined that conditions associated with the operation of an unlawful clandestine drug lab exist. A CLANDESTINE DRUG LAB SITE may include dwellings, accessory buildings, accessory structures, a chemical dumpsite or any land.
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE. A drug, substance or immediately precursor in Schedules I through V of M.S. § 152.02, as it may be amended from time to time. The term shall 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 the State Department of Health, State Pollution Control and County Health Department rules and regulations.
MANUFACTURE. In places other than a pharmacy, shall mean and include 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 drugs.
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 dumpsite.
PUBLIC HEALTH NUISANCE. All dwellings, accessory structures and buildings or adjacent property associated with a clandestine drug lab site are potentially unsafe due to health hazards and are considered a public health nuisance.
(2002 Code, § 6.24) (Ord. 9, Sixth Series, effective 10-30-2003)