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<br />(5) "Controlled substance" means a drug substance or immediate precursor specified
<br />in Minn. Stat. § 152.02, Schedules I through V, and as the same may be amended.
<br />The term does not include distilled spirits, wine, malt beverages, intoxicating
<br />liquors or tobacco.
<br />(6) "Manufacture," in places other than a pharmacy, includes the production,
<br />cultivation, quality control, or standardization, by mechanical, physical, chemical.
<br />or pharmaceutical means, and the packaging, re -packaging, tableting,
<br />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
<br />whole or in part, the land, building, structure, vehicle, boat, trailer or other
<br />location associated with clandestine drug lab site. Unless information is provided
<br />to prove otherwise, the owner of real property is deemed to be the property
<br />taxpayer of record in the Ramsey/Hennepin. County files, and the owner of a
<br />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 />1175.040. Declaration of Public I fealth 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
<br />and are declared to be apublic health nuisance.
<br />1175.050. Law Enforcement Action.
<br />(1) Law enforcement authorities that identify conditions associated with a clandestine
<br />drug lab site that may place the public or occupants at risk for exposure to
<br />harmful contaminants 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
<br />owner about the site 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
<br />Minnesota Department of Health and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
<br />Regulations;
<br />(c) the appropriate county would issue a temporary declaration of public health
<br />nuisance for the affected site and post a copy of the declaration on all doorway
<br />entrances to the site or, in the case of bare land, in several conspicuous places
<br />on the property. This temporary declaration will expire after the city inspects
<br />the site and determines the appropriateness of issuing a permanent declaration
<br />of public heath nuisance;
<br />(d) notify all people occupying the site that a temporary declaration of public
<br />health nuisance has been issued;
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