Rossland is looking into adopting a bylaw to discourage illegal marijuana-growing operations and is encouraging citizens to report all criminal activity to the police after receiving numerous complaints about "party" houses.

The grow-op bylaw will be likely patterned after similar measures being developed in Fruitvale and Warfield, which focus on deterring operations through house inspections, councillor Gordon Smith told council Monday.

Many problem houses in Rossland are owned by absentees landlords. One simple approach would be to get owners of these houses to sign over their inspection rights to the city, he added.

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