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<br />FALCON HEIGHTS CITY COUNCIL MINUTES -10-
<br />February 23, 2005
<br />Consideration of an ordinance re ag rdin cleanup of clandestine dru l~(continued)
<br />8-5.03. Definitions. Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the words and phrases below are
<br />defined for the purpose of this chapter as follows:
<br />(1) "Chemical dump site" means a place or area where chemicals or other waste materials used in a
<br />clandestine drug lab operation have been located.
<br />(2) "City" means the City of Falcon Heights.
<br />(3) "Clandestine drug lab operation" means the unlawful manufacture or attempt to manufacture a
<br />controlled substance.
<br />(4) "Clandestine drug lab site" or "site" means a place or area where law enforcement personnel have
<br />determined that conditions associated with an unlawful clandestine drug lab operation exits. A clandestine drug lab
<br />site may include dwellings, accessory buildings, structures or units, a chemical dump site, a vehicle, boat, trailer, or
<br />other appliance.
<br />(5) "Controlled substance" means a drug substance or immediate precursor specified in Minn. Stat. §
<br />• 152.02, Schedules I through V, and as the same may be amended. The term does not include distilled spirits, wine,
<br />malt beverages, intoxicating liquors or tobacco.
<br />(6) "Manufacture," in places other than a pharmacy, includes the production, cultivation, quality control,
<br />or standardization, by mechanical, physical, chemical or pharmaceutical means, and the packing, re-packing,
<br />tableting, encapsulating, labeling, re-labeling, or filling of drugs, by any other process.
<br />(7) "Owner" means a person, firm, corporation or other entity who or which owns, in whole or in part, the
<br />land, building, structure, vehicle, boat, trailer or other location associated with clandestine drug lab site. Unless
<br />information is provided to prove otherwise, the owner of real property is deemed to be the property taxpayer of
<br />record in the Ramsey County files, and the owner of a vehicle, boat or trailer is deemed to be the person listed as the
<br />owner on the most recent title to the vehicle, boat or trailer.
<br />8-5.04. Declaration of Public Health Nuisance. All dwellings, accessory structures, buildings, vehicles,
<br />boats, trailers, personal property, adjacent property or other locations, associated with a clandestine drug lab site are
<br />potentially unsafe due to health hazards and are 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 drug lab site that
<br />may place the public or occupants at risk for exposure to harmful contaminants and other associated conditions may:
<br />(a) promptly notify the appropriate municipal, child protection, and public health authority, the
<br />United States drug enforcement administration, and the site owner about the site and the conditions found;
<br />(b) treat, store, transport or dispose of all waste generated from the clandestine drug lab operation
<br />and found at the site in a manner consistent with the Minnesota Department of Health and Minnesota Pollution
<br />• Control Agency Regulations;
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