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Code of Ordinances <br />Section 1015:00 <br />(1977) <br />C <br />0 1 <br />Page 1 of 3 <br />Section 1015 Clandestine Drug Lab Sites and Chemical Dumpsites <br />iection 1015:00 Purpose. The purpose of this Section is to reduce public exposure to health risks where law <br />enforcement officers have determined that hazardous chemicals from a suspected clandestine lab site or associated <br />dumpsite may exist. The City Council finds that such sites may contain hazardous chemicals substances or residues <br />tereof that place people, particularly children or adults of child- bearing age, at risk of exposure through inhabiting or <br />isiting the site, now and in the future. <br />Section 1015:10 Interpretation and Application. <br />Subd. 1. The provisions of this ordinance shall be interpreted and applied as the minimum requirements <br />necessary to protect public health safety and welfare. <br />Subd. 2. Where the conditions imposed by and provision of this ordinance are either more restrictive or less <br />restrictive than comparable provisions imposed by any other law ordinance statute, resolution, or regulation of <br />any kind the regulations which are more restrictive or which impose higher standards or requirements shall <br />prevail. <br />Subd. 3. Should any court of competent jurisdiction declare any section or subpart of the Section to be invalid, <br />such decision shall not affect the validity of the Section as a whole or any part thereof other than the provision <br />declared invalid. <br />Section 1015:15 Definitions. The following terms or words shall be interpreted as follows: <br />Subd. 1. Child shall mean any person less than 18 years of age. <br />Subd. 2. Chemical dumpsite shall mean any place or area where chemicals or other waste materials used in a <br />clandestine drug lab have been located. <br />Subd. 3. Clandestine drug lab shall mean the unlawful manufacture or attempt to manufacture controlled <br />substances. <br />Subd. 4. Clandestine drug lab site shall mean any place or area where law enforcement has determined tha <br />conditions associated with the operation of an unlawful clandestine drug lab exist. A clandestine drug lab site <br />may include dwellings, accessory building, accessory structures, vehicle, a chemical dumpsite or any land. <br />Subd. 5. Controlled substance shall mean a drug, substance or immediate precursor in Schedules I through V of <br />Minn. Statutes 152.02. The term shall not include distilled spirits, wine malt beverages intoxicating li uors or <br />tobacco. <br />Subd. 6. Household hazardous wastes shall mean waste generated from a clandestine drug lab. Such wastes <br />shall be treated stored transported or disposed of in a manner consistent with the Minnesota Department of <br />Health and Minnesota pollution Control Agency rules and regulations. <br />Section 1015:15, Subd. 7 <br />(1977) <br />Subd. 7. Manufacture, in places other than a pharmacy, shall mean and include the production, cultivation, <br />quality control, and standardization, by mechanical, physical, chemical or pharmaceutical means, packing, <br />repacking, tableting, encapsulating, labeling, relabeling, filling, or by other process, of drugs. <br />Subd. 8. Owner shall mean any person, firm or corporation who owns, in whole or in part, the land, buildings, <br />structures or vehicle associated with a clandestine drug lab site or chemical dumpsite. <br />Subd. 9. Public Health Nuisance shall mean all dwelling_s accessory structures and buildings adjucent property <br />- 5 - <br />