124C.1 - DEFINITIONS.
124C.1 DEFINITIONS.
As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires
otherwise:
1. "Clandestine laboratory site" means a location or
operation, including but not limited to buildings or vehicles
equipped with glassware, heating devices, and precursors or related
reagents and solvents needed to unlawfully prepare or manufacture
controlled substances defined in chapter 124.
2. "Cleanup" means actions necessary to contain, collect,
control, identify, analyze, disassemble, treat, remove, or otherwise
disperse all substances and materials, including but not limited to
those found to be hazardous waste as defined in section 455B.411 and
controlled substances defined in chapter 124, including contamination
caused by those chemicals or substances.
3. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of public safety.
4. "Department" means the department of public safety.
5. "Hazardous substance" means any substance or mixture of
substances that presents a danger to the public health or safety and
includes, but is not limited to, a substance that is toxic,
corrosive, or flammable, and other substances defined in rules
adopted pursuant to section 455B.381 and controlled substances as
defined in chapter 124.
6. "Person having control over a clandestine laboratory site"
means a person who at any time possesses, produces, handles, stores,
uses, transports, or disposes of a hazardous substance or controlled
substance used or intended for use at a clandestine laboratory site.
A person having control over a clandestine laboratory site does not
include persons performing duties listed in section 124C.2 at the
direction of the commissioner and does not include a person who is
the owner of the property or a person holding a security interest in
the property in or upon which the clandestine laboratory site is
located unless the person knew that a clandestine laboratory existed
in or upon the person's property. Section History: Recent Form
93 Acts, ch 141, § 1; 2000 Acts, ch 1148, §1; 2002 Acts, ch 1119,
§12, 200, 201; 2003 Acts, ch 44, §35