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Page 24 City of Mounds View 702.01 702.01 (d) OFFICIAL WRITTEN ORDER: An order written on a form provided for that purpose of the United States Commissioner of Narcotics under any laws of the United States making provision therefor if such order forms are authorized and required by Federal law and, if no such order form is provided, then on an official form provided for that purpose by the Department of Health of the State. (e) PERSONS: Includes any corporation, association, copartnership or any one or more individuals. (f) PHYSICIAN, DENTIST, VETERINARIAN, MANUFACTURER, WHOLESALE, APOTHECARY, HOSPITAL and LABORATORY: Herewith defined pursuant to the terms of the Minnesota Statutes, section 152.01, subdivisions 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 10. (2) Declaration of Public Nuisance: It is hereby declared to be public nuisance affecting the public peace, safety and general welfare of any person, except those persons, institutions or laboratories as defined in subdivision 13h(l)(f) above, to have in their possession or allow on their premises any narcotic drug. (3) Unlawful Acts: It shall be unlawful for any person, except those persons, institutions, or laboratories as defined in subdivision 13h(l)(f) above, to have in their possession or to allow on their premises persons who have possession of narcotic drugs or to allow on their premises any narcotic drug. It shall be unlawful for any person to use or allow to be used or allow on their premises narcotic drug paraphernalia with narcotics drugs. A person's premises, for the purposes of this subdivision 13h, shall be that real estate owned, rented or used by any person. (4) Kept in Original Container: A person to whom or for whose use any narcotic drug has been prescribed, sold or dispensed by a physician, dentist, apothecary or other person authorized under the provisions of Minnesota Statutes, section 152.10, and the owner of any animal for which any such drug has been prescribed, sold or dispensed by a veterinarian, may lawfully possess it only in the container in which it was delivered to them by the person selling or dispensing the same. (5) Persons Exempted: The provisions of this subdivision 13h restricting possession and allowing the use of narcotic drugs on a person's premises shall not apply to common carriers or to warehousemen while engaged in lawfully transporting or storing such narcotic drugs or to any employee of the same acting within the scope of the employee's employment or to public officers or their employees in the performance of their official duties requiring possession or storage on their premises of narcotic drugs or to temporary incidental possession or by persons whose possession is for the purpose of aiding public officers in performing their official duties.