(A) Law enforcement authorities, as permitted by M.S. § 13.82, as it may be amended from time to time, who identify a clandestine drug lab site, or clandestine drug lab operation, shall notify the Public Health Authority within one working day of identifying the lab site. The obligation to promptly notify may be delayed to accomplish appropriate law enforcement objectives, but only to the extent that public health, and child protection responsibilities, are not unnecessarily compromised. The notice shall include sufficient information to inform the recipients of the following:
(1) Property, or structure, location by street address and other identifiable location;
(2) Property, or structure, owner’s, and occupant’s, identities, especially the identities of any children, and women of child-bearing age, found, or known to be associated, with the site;
(3) Chemicals found, and indications of chemical residues;
(4) Equipment in a dwelling, or structure, that is typically associated with the manufacture of a controlled substance; and
(5) Conditions typically associated with a clandestine drug lab site, or operation, including weapons, illicit drugs, filth, fire, or electrical shock and other harmful conditions, as determined by state law.
(B) Upon identification of the clandestine drug lab site, or operation, law enforcement agencies may treat, store, transport, or dispose of all hazardous waste found at the site in a manner consistent with rules and regulations adopted by the State Department of Health, State Pollution Control, the county, and the city.
(C) When a law enforcement agency completes its work under division (B) above, and is prepared to leave the sites, the agency shall affix a warning sign to the entrance of the affected part of the structure. The warning sign shall be those that have been prepared in advance for such situations through the collaboration of county law enforcement, public health, and city officials. The warning sign shall be of a size, and contain information sufficient to alert visitors, or returning occupants, that the site is a chemical investigation site public health nuisance, may be dangerous to enter, and must not be entered except by authorization of the Public Health Authority, and/or law enforcement agency identified on the sign.
(Prior Code, § 10.62)