Every building or place used for the purpose of unlawfully selling, serving, storing, keeping, manufacturing, or giving away any controlled substance, precursor, or analog specified in this division, and every building or place wherein or upon which those acts take place, is a nuisance which shall be enjoined, abated, and prevented, and for which damages may be recovered, whether it is a public or private nuisance.
Cal. Health & Safety Code § 11570
Abatement
Known as the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act
The act spans §§ 11000–11651 (376 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 66 Cal. App. 4th 94 - Coltrain v. Shewalter (1998)
Most recently applied in 204 Cal. App. 4th 1512 - People ex rel. Trutanich v. Joseph (March 2012)
Amended by Stats. 1986, Ch. 1043, Sec. 1.5.
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