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(5) "Controlled substance" means a drug substance or immediate precursor specified in
<br />• Minn. Stat. § 152.02, Schedules I through V, and as the same may be amended. The term does
<br />not include distilled spirits, wine, malt beverages, intoxicating liquors or tobacco.
<br />(6) "Manufacture," in places other than a pharmacy, includes the production, cultivation,
<br />quality control, or standardization, by mechanical, physical, chemical or pharmaceutical means,
<br />and the packing, re-packing, tableting, encapsulating, labeling, re-labeling, or filling of drugs, by
<br />any other process.
<br />(7) "Owner" means a person, firm, corporation or other entity who or which owns, in
<br />whole or in part, the land, building, structure, vehicle, boat, trailer or other location associated
<br />with clandestine drug lab site. Unless information is provided to prove otherwise, the owner of
<br />real property is deemed to be the property taxpayer of record in the Ramsey County files, and the
<br />owner of a vehicle, boat or trailer is deemed to be the person listed as the owner on the most
<br />recent title to the vehicle, boat or trailer.
<br />8-5.04. Declaration of Public Health Nuisance. All dwellings, accessory structures,
<br />buildings, vehicles, boats, trailers, personal property, adjacent property or other locations,
<br />associated with a clandestine drug lab site are potentially unsafe due to health hazards and are
<br />declared to be a public health nuisance.
<br />8-5.05. Law Enforcement Action.
<br />• (1) Law enforcement authorities who identify conditions associated with a clandestine
<br />drug lab site that may place the public or occupants at risk for exposure to harmful contaminants
<br />and other associated conditions may:
<br />(a) promptly notify the appropriate municipal, child protection, and public health
<br />authority, the United States drug enforcement administration, and the site owner about the site
<br />and the conditions found;
<br />(b) treat, store, transport or dispose of all waste generated from the clandestine
<br />drug lab operation and found at the site in a manner consistent with the Minnesota Department of
<br />Health and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Regulations;
<br />(c) issue a temporary declaration of public health nuisance for the affected site
<br />and post a copy of the declaration on all doorway entrances to the site or, in the case of bare land,
<br />in several conspicuous places on the property. This temporary declaration will expire after the
<br />city inspects the site and determines the appropriateness of issuing a permanent declaration of
<br />public heath nuisance;
<br />(d) notify all people occupying the site that a temporary declaration of public
<br />health nuisance has been issued;
<br />(e) require all people occupying the site to immediately vacate the site, remove
<br />• all pets from the site, and not return without written authorization from the city;
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