(a) When used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
(1) "Box Lab" shall mean any illegal methamphetamine and/or drug manufacturing laboratory that is portable, including but not limited to motor vehicles used as an illegal methamphetamine manufacturing laboratory.
(2) "Certified/Licensed Environmental Testing/Cleaning Firm" means any testing and/or cleaning firm that performs testing/cleaning in compliance with established EPA standards and procedures.
(3) "Child" means any person less than 18 years of age.
(4) "Chemical Dumpsite" means any place or area where chemicals or other waste materials used or produced in a clandestine drug lab have been located.
(5) "Clandestine Drug Lab" means the unlawfhl manufacturing or attempt to manufacture controlled substances.
(6) “Clandestine Drug Lab Site" means a place or area where law enforcement has determined that conditions associated with the operation of a clandestine drug lab exist.
(7) "Controlled Substance" means a drug, substance or immediate precursor in Schedule I through Schedule V of Ohio R.C. 3719.41. The term does not include distilled spirits, wine, malt beverages, intoxicating liquors or tobacco.
(8) "Household Hazardous Waste" means waste generated from a clandestine drug lab.
(9) "Manufacture" means in places other than a pharmacy or a licensed pharmaceutical manufacturing facility and includes the production, cultivation, quality control, and standardization, by mechanical, physical, chemical or pharmaceutical means and the packing, repacking, tableting, encapsulating, labeling, relabeling, filling or by any other process, a controlled substance.
(10) "Motor Vehicles" shall have the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 4501.01.
(11) "Owner" means the registered owner of a property; any person who holds legal or equitable title to the property; is a mortgagee; a vendee-in-possession; assignee of rents; executor; trustee; lessee; agent or any other person, firm or corporation that is directly or indirectly in control of a property. The owner of a property in default or for which a foreclosure action is pending or for which a judgment in foreclosure has been issued, shall include the mortgagee; the successor in interest to the mortgagee; the lender or servicing company; and any agent acting for the mortgagee, its successors, a lender or servicing company upon which a clandestine drug lab has operated or which is a chemical dumpsite.
(12) "Public Nuisance" includes all residential, commercial, industrial or institutional structures and buildings associated with a clandestine drug lab site that are potentially unsafe due to health hazards.
(13) "Storage" means and includes all residential, commercial, industrial or institutional structures and buildings associated with a clandestine drug lab site that are potentially unsafe due to health hazards.
(14) "Emergency Dismantling" shall include dismantling or disposal of drug processing apparatus and/or chemicals once the site has been declared a public health hazard.
(15) "Illegal Methamphetamine or Drug Manufacturing Laboratory" has the same meaning as in Section 3745.13 of the Ohio Revised Code.
(16) "Illegal Methamphetamine or Drug Manufacturing Laboratory Site" shall mean any place or area where law enforcement has determined that the conditions associated with the operation of an illegal methamphetamine manufacturing laboratory include, but are not limited to, the existence of an illegal methamphetamine manufacturing laboratory, a box lab, or chemical dumpsite or the storage of chemicals used in the production of methamphetamine. An illegal methamphetamine manufacturing laboratory site may include, but is not limited to dwellings, accessory buildings, accessory structures, motor vehicles or any land.
(17) "Methamphetamine" has the same meaning as in Ohio R.C. 3745.13.
(18) "Precursor" means any chemical reactant which takes place at any stage in the production by whatever method of a hazardous waste.
(19) "Public Health Hazard'' includes all residential, commercial, industrial or institutional structures, accessory structures, buildings, vehicles and property associated with a clandestine drug lab site that are potentially unsafe due to health hazards.
(20) "Real Property" shall include any buildings or structures located on the property.
(21) "The City" means the City of Lorain, Ohio.
(22) "Transfers of Property" shall mean the transfer or conveyance of any interest in real property by sale, lease, gift, or land contract.
(Ord. 20-15. Passed 2-16-15.)