For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CHEMICAL DUMP SITE. Any place or area where chemicals or other waste materials used in a clandestine drug lab have been located.
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 operation of unlawful clandestine drug lab exist. A CLANDESTINE DRUG LAB SITE may include dwellings, accessory buildings, accessory structures, a chemical dump site or any land.
CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE. A drug, substance or immediate 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. The wastes shall be treated, stored, transported or disposed of in a manner consistent with the state’s Department of Health, the state’s Pollution Control and Nobles/Rock Public Health Department rules and regulations.
MANUFACTURE, IN PLACES OTHER THAN A PHARMACY. 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 a controlled substance.
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. 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.
(Prior Code, § 10.58) (Ord. 252, Third Series, effective 5-1-2003)