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recognized by county or state authorities as being competent in HazMAT cleanup with
<br />clandestine drug lab experience.
<br />Clandestine drug lab operation means the unlawful manufacture or attempt to
<br />manufacture a controlled substance.
<br />Clandestine drug lab site or site means a place or area where law enforcement personnel
<br />have determined that conditions associated with an unlawful clandestine drug lab operation exist.
<br />A clandestine drug lab site may include dwellings, accessory buildings, structures or units, a
<br />chemical dump site, a vehicle, boat, trailer, or other appliance.
<br />Controlled substance means a drug, substance or immediate precursor specified in Minn.
<br />Stat. §52.02. Schedules I through V, as may be amended. The term does not include distilled
<br />spirits, wine, malt beverages, intoxicating liquors or tobacco.
<br />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.
<br />Owner means a person, firm, corporation or other entity who or which owns, in whole or
<br />in part, the land, building, structure, vehicle, boat, trailer or other location associated with a
<br />clandestine drug lab site. Unless information is provided to prove otherwise, the owner of real
<br />property is deemed to be the property taxpayer of record in the Hennepin 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 />Sec. 50-94. Declaration of public health nuisance.
<br />All dwellings, accessory structures, buildings, vehicles, boats, trailers, personal property,
<br />adjacent property or other locations, associated with a clandestine drug lab site are potentially
<br />unsafe due to health hazards and are declared to be a public health nuisance, subject to final
<br />confirmation by the city health authority.
<br />Secs. 50-95 —50-200. Reserved.
<br />DIVISION 2. ENFORCEMENT.
<br />Sec. 50-201. Law enforcement action.
<br />(a) Law enforcement authorities who identify conditions associated with a
<br />clandestine drug lab site that may place the public or occupants at risk for exposure to harmful
<br />contaminants and other associated conditions may:
<br />(1) promptly notify the city health authority, county child protection division, the
<br />United States drug enforcement administration, and the site owner about the site
<br />and the conditions found;
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