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2. Law Enforcement: Notice to Other Authorities. Upon identification of a clandestine: drug lab.site or chemical dump site. deemed to place. neighbors,.visiting public, or present and future occupants of theaffected property at risk for exposure to harmful containinants and other associated conditions, law enforcement officials shall notify the City Environmental. Health Official and other appropriate municipal; childprotection, and public health authorities of the..prop erty location, th0:prop erty owner if known, and conditions.:found. 3: Seizure of Property. I) lf.a clandestine drug lab. or chemical dump site is located insidea vehicle, boat, trailer, or. other form of moveable personal property, law enforceineutauthorities may immediately seiae.such property. and transport it to a more secure location. 2) Personal property may not be removed from a clandestine drug lab site ar a chemical dump site without the prior consent from the City Environmental Health Official. 4. Action by City Environmental: Health Official. 1) L]pon notification by law enforcement authorities, the City Environmental Health 0fficia].o.r other appropriate municipal or public health authority will. issue a. Declaration ofPubIicHealth Nuisance for the affected property and past a copy of the: Declaration at all probable entrances to the dwelling or property.. 2) Removal of the posted Declaration of Pub) ic. Health Nuisance by 'anyone other than the Environme taI Health .Official; law enforcement authorities, or their designees,. i9.pro hibiled. 3) The.. City Environmental Health Official shall also attempt to notify the following parties of the Declaration of Public Health Nuisance: i. Owner of the property;. ii. Occupants afthe property; iii. .Neighbors withi.mclose proximity that can be reasonably affected by the conditions found; iv. The Ramsey County Sheriff's Department; and v. Other state and local authorities, such as the Minnesota Pollution Contwl Agency and the. Minnesota Department of Public Health, which are known to have: public and environmental. protection responsibilities applicable. to the. situation. 4) Any rental license issued by the City for the property is: immediately suspended upon issuance of the-Declaiation.of Public Health Nuisance. Such. license will be reinstated only after full. compliance with an abatement. order, 5) After issuance. of the Declaration of Public Health Nuisance, the City Environmental Health Official will issue an order to the property owner.to:.abate the public health nuisance. The abatement order will include the following: is A copy.ofthe .Declaration of Public. Health Nuisance; n.. .An order to immed iately vacate those portions ofthc.praperty,.including.bui[ding.or structure interiors, which may place the occupants or visi#ors gt risk; iii. Notification of suspension of the rental license, if applicable; iv. A summary of the owner's and occupant's responsibilities; Clmdrstinc DrugLdb Ordinance No. J43