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Landlords might be the new front-line soldiers against pot growers under a proposed bylaw.

Four yearly inspections by a landlord should be enough to disrupt the careers of would-be marijuana growers in Langley.

That's what Township councillors are hoping, after they sent a new anti-pot bylaw to public hearing.

The bylaw will require landlords to inspect properties at least once every three months to check for methamphetamine labs and grow operations.

Because it takes about four months to grow a crop of marijuana from seedling to harvest, the inspections should catch growers in the act, or drive them away. If a landlord does the regular inspections and discovers a growing operation, he or she is off the hook for any police costs.

The bylaw also requires property owners to tell any potential future buyers that the property once held a growing operation or drug lab.

Councillor Steve Ferguson called it a "the good, the bad and the ugly" bylaw. It should separate good landlords -- those who already check their properties -- from the bad absentee landlords who allow the drug production to go on, he said.


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Source: 420Times.com
Author: Matthew Claxton
Copyright: 2006 The Vancouver Sun
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