Pubdate: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 Source: Sun Times, The (Owen Sound, CN ON) Copyright: 2007, Osprey Media Group Inc. Contact: http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1544 CITY TO BE TOLD OF GROW-OP HOUSES Owen Sound police will now notify city staff when they discover a marijuana grow house. Protocols require city police to seal a house where marijuana was grown once their investigation is finished and to notify city officials, who will then send inspectors to check out the building for things such as mold, hydro bypasses and structural problems. City council passed a bylaw Monday to officially put the new protocol into effect. It allows city bylaw and building officials, health unit, hydro and any others deemed necessary to enter and inspect the building. Provincial Bill 128, the Law Enforcement Forfeited Property Management Statute Law Amendment Act, 2005 requires municipalities to inspect marijuana-grow houses once notified by police and do what's necessary to ensure the building is safe. The law doesn't apply to crystal meth labs, according to a provincial backgrounder. - --- MAP posted-by: Elaine