This chapter constitutes, and may be cited as, the Pharmacy Law....

(a) There is in the Department of Consumer Affairs a California State Board of Pharmacy in which the administration and enforcement of this chapter is vested. The board consists of 13 members. ...

Protection of the public shall be the highest priority for the California State Board of Pharmacy in exercising its licensing, regulatory, and disciplinary functions. Whenever the...

The Joint Committee on Boards, Commissions, and Consumer Protection shall review the state's shortage of pharmacists and make recommendations on a course of action to alleviate...

(a) The board shall elect a president, a vice president, and a treasurer. The officers of the board shall be elected by a majority of the membership of the board. (b) The principal office...

(a) The board may appoint a person exempt from civil service who shall be designated as an executive officer and who shall exercise the powers and perform the duties delegated by the...

No member of the board shall teach pharmacy in any of its branches, unless he or she teaches as either one of the following: (a) A teacher in a public capacity and in a college of pharmacy. ...

(a) The board may adopt rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of this state, as may be necessary for the protection of the public. Included therein shall be the right...

The board may adopt regulations consistent with this chapter and Section 111485 of the Health and Safety Code or regulations adopted thereunder, limiting or restricting the furnishing...

(a) Nothing in Section 4005 shall be construed as authorizing the board to adopt rules of professional conduct relating to price fixing or advertising of commodities. (b) Nothing in...

(a) Except as provided by Section 159.5, the board may employ inspectors of pharmacy. The inspectors, whether the inspectors are employed by the board or the department's Division...

The board may not adopt or amend any rule or regulation that thereby would conflict with Section 1186 of the Labor Code....

The board may not adopt or amend any rule or regulation that thereby would conflict with Section 1186 of the Labor Code....

All authorized officers of the law, while investigating violations of this chapter in performance of their official duties, and any person working under their immediate direction,...

The board shall administer and enforce this chapter and the Uniform Controlled Substances Act (Division 10 (commencing with Section 11000) of the Health and Safety Code)....

The board shall upon request furnish any person with a copy of the laws or regulations relating to dangerous drugs, the furnishing or possession of which is restricted by this article...

For purposes of this chapter, the definitions of the terms in this article shall govern the construction of this chapter, unless otherwise indicated....

Administer means the direct application of a drug or device to the body of a patient or research subject by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or other means....

Authorized officers of the law means inspectors of the California State Board of Pharmacy, inspectors of the Food and Drug Branch of the State Department of Health Services, and...

Board means the California State Board of Pharmacy....

An order, entered on the chart or medical record of a patient registered in a hospital or a patient under emergency treatment in the hospital, by or on the order of a practitioner authorized...

Controlled substance means any substance listed in Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11053) of Division 10 of the Health and Safety Code....

Dangerous drug or dangerous device means any drug or device unsafe for self-use in humans or animals, and includes the following: (a) Any drug that bears the legend: Caution:...

Device means any instrument, apparatus, machine, implant, in vitro reagent, or contrivance, including its components, parts, products, or the byproducts of a device, and accessories that...

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), dispense means the furnishing of drugs or devices upon a prescription from a physician, dentist, optometrist, podiatrist, veterinarian, or upon...

Drug means any of the following: (a) Articles recognized in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, official National Formulary or official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United...

Nonprescription drug means a drug which may be sold without a prescription and which is labeled for use by the consumer in accordance with the requirements of the laws and rules of...

Furnish means to supply by any means, by sale or otherwise....

(a) As used in this chapter, the terms skilled nursing facility, intermediate care facility, and other references to health facilities shall be construed with respect to...

Licensed hospital means an institution, place, building, or agency that maintains and operates organized facilities for one or more persons for the diagnosis, care, and treatment...

(a) Hospital pharmacy means and includes a pharmacy, licensed by the board, located within any licensed hospital, institution, or establishment that maintains and operates...

Intern pharmacist means a person registered with the board pursuant to Section 4200 who shall have completed the educational requirements as determined by the board....

Laboratory means a research, teaching, or testing laboratory not engaged in the dispensing or furnishing of drugs or devices but using dangerous drugs or dangerous devices for...

License means and includes any license, permit, registration, certificate, or exemption issued by the board and includes the process of applying for and renewing the same....

(a) Manufacturer means and includes every person who prepares, derives, produces, compounds, or repackages any drug or device except a pharmacy that manufactures on the immediate...

Person includes firm, association, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, state governmental agency, or political subdivision....

Pharmacist means a person to whom a license has been issued by the board, under Section 4200, except as specifically provided otherwise in this chapter....

(a) Pharmacy means an area, place, or premises licensed by the board in which the profession of pharmacy is practiced and where prescriptions are compounded. Pharmacy includes, but...

Pharmacy technician means an individual who assists a pharmacist in a pharmacy in the performance of his or her pharmacy related duties, as specified in Section 4115....

Physicians, dentists, optometrists, pharmacists, podiatrists, veterinarians, veterinary surgeons, registered nurses, and physician's assistants are persons authorized...

(a) Prescription means an oral, written, or electronic transmission order that is both of the following: (1) Given individually for the person or persons for whom ordered that includes all...

Reverse distributor means every person who acts as an agent for pharmacies, drug wholesalers, manufacturers, and other entities by receiving, inventorying, and managing the...

Veterinary food-animal drug retailer is an area, place, or premises, other than a pharmacy, that holds a valid license from the Board of Pharmacy of the State of California as a wholesaler...

Veterinary food-animal drugs as used in this chapter shall include the following: (a) Any drug to be used in food-producing animals bearing the legend, Caution, federal law restricts...

Wholesaler means and includes every person who acts as a wholesale merchant, broker, jobber, customs broker, reverse distributor, or agent, who sells for resale, or negotiates...

(a) In recognition of and consistent with the decisions of the appellate courts of this state, the Legislature hereby declares the practice of pharmacy to be a profession. (b) Pharmacy...

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, it is unlawful for any person to manufacture, compound, furnish, sell, or dispense any dangerous drug or dangerous device, or to...

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacist may: (1) Furnish a reasonable quantity of compounded medication to a prescriber for office use by the prescriber. (2) Transmit...

(iii) Administering drugs and biologicals by injection pursuant to a prescriber's order (the administration of immunizations under the supervision of a prescriber may also be performed outside...

Notwithstanding Section 2038 or any other provision of law, a pharmacist may perform skin puncture in the course of performing routine patient assessment procedures or in the course...

(a) In addition to the authority allowed under Section 4073, a pharmacist filling a prescription order for a drug product may select a different form of medication with the same...

(a) A pharmacy may, at a patient's request, repackage a drug previously dispensed to the patient or to the patient's agent pursuant to a prescription. (b) Any pharmacy providing...

(a) Subdivision (a) of Section 4051 shall not apply to a manufacturer, veterinary food-animal drug retailer, or wholesaler if the board shall find that sufficient, qualified...

Section 4051 shall not apply to a manufacturer, wholesaler, or other supplier of dialysis drugs and devices distributed directly to patients if the board finds that sufficient,...

Nothing in this chapter, nor any other law, shall prohibit the sale of devices to clinics that have been issued a clinic license pursuant to Article 13 (commencing with Section 4180) of...

(a) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, a licensed hospital that contains 100 beds or fewer, and that does not employ a full-time pharmacist, may purchase drugs at...

(a) Except as provided in Sections 4006, 4240, and 4342, this chapter does not apply to the retail sale of nonprescription drugs that are not subject to Section 4022 and that are packaged...

Every person holding a license issued under this chapter to operate a premises shall display the original license and current renewal license upon the licensed premises in a place where it...

(a) A person may not furnish any dangerous drug, except upon the prescription of a physician, dentist, podiatrist, optometrist, or veterinarian. A person may not furnish any dangerous...

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, dangerous drugs or dangerous devices may only be ordered by an entity licensed by the board and must be delivered to the licensed...

No person shall possess any controlled substance, except that furnished to a person upon the prescription of a physician, dentist, podiatrist, optometrist, or veterinarian, or furnished...

(a) No manufacturer's sales representative shall distribute any dangerous drug or dangerous device as a complimentary sample without the written request of a physician,...

(a) Notwithstanding Section 4059 or any other provision of law, a pharmacist may, in good faith, furnish a dangerous drug or dangerous device in reasonable quantities without a...

No prescription for any dangerous drug or dangerous device may be refilled except upon authorization of the prescriber. The authorization may be given orally or at the time of giving...

(a) A prescription for a dangerous drug or dangerous device may be refilled without the prescriber's authorization if the prescriber is unavailable to authorize the refill and if,...

(a) Injection card system, as used in this section, means a system that enables a facility to authorize an outpatient to receive injections of controlled substances at the facility pursuant...

(a) Notwithstanding Section 4059, a wholesaler or pharmacy may furnish dangerous drugs to the master or first officer of an ocean vessel, pursuant to a written prescription. The...

(a) No person or entity shall dispense or furnish, or cause to be dispensed or furnished, dangerous drugs or dangerous devices, as defined in Section 4022, on the Internet for delivery...

(a) Except as provided in Section 4019 and subdivision (b), an oral or an electronic data transmission prescription as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 4040 shall as soon as...

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a prescriber may authorize his or her agent on his or her behalf to orally or electronically transmit a prescription to the furnisher....

(a) A prescriber, a prescriber's authorized agent, or a pharmacist may electronically enter a prescription or an order, as defined in Section 4019, into a pharmacy's or hospital's...

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacist, registered nurse, licensed vocational nurse, licensed psychiatric technician, or other healing arts licentiate, if so...

(a) A pharmacist filling a prescription order for a drug product prescribed by its trade or brand name may select another drug product with the same active chemical ingredients of...

(a) A pharmacist shall inform a patient orally or in writing of the harmful effects of a drug dispensed by prescription if the drug poses substantial risk to the person consuming the drug...

No prescription for a controlled substance transmitted by means of an oral or electronically transmitted order shall be furnished to any person unknown and unable to properly establish his or...

No prescription for a controlled substance transmitted by means of an oral or electronically transmitted order shall be furnished to any person unknown and unable to properly establish his or...

(a) A pharmacist shall not dispense any prescription except in a container that meets the requirements of state and federal law and is correctly labeled with all of the following: (1)...

(a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), no person shall dispense any dangerous drug upon prescription except in a container correctly labeled with the information required...

(a) (1) No person shall place a false or misleading label on a prescription. (2) No prescriber shall direct that a prescription be labeled with any information that is false or misleading. ...

All stock of any dangerous drug or dangerous device or of shipments through a customs broker or carrier shall be, at all times during business hours, open to inspection by authorized...

(a) All records of manufacture and of sale, acquisition, or disposition of dangerous drugs or dangerous devices shall be at all times during business hours open to inspection by...

When called upon by an inspector, the owner or manager of any entity licensed by the board, or other store, shop, building, or premises retailing, wholesaling, or storing drugs or...

(a) An inspector may issue an order of correction to a licensee directing the licensee to comply with this chapter or regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter. (b) The order of...

Within 30 days after changing his or her address of record with the board or after changing his or her name according to law, every pharmacist, intern pharmacist, technician, or...

(a) Any pharmacist who takes charge of, or acts as pharmacist-in-charge of a pharmacy or other entity licensed by the board, who terminates his or her employment at the pharmacy or...

Notwithstanding Section 2038, or any other provision of law, a pharmacist may take a person's blood pressure and may inform the person of the results, render an opinion as to whether the...

(a) Pharmacies shall have in place procedures for taking action to protect the public when a licensed individual employed by or with the pharmacy is known to be chemically, mentally,...

(a) All records or other documentation of the acquisition and disposition of dangerous drugs and dangerous devices by any entity licensed by the board shall be retained on the licensed premises...

For purposes of license verification, a person may rely upon a printout from the board's Internet Web site that includes the issuance and expiration dates of any license issued by the board....

(a) No person shall conduct a pharmacy in the State of California unless he or she has obtained a license from the board. A license shall be required for each pharmacy owned or operated...

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b) or (d), the board shall not issue or renew any license to conduct a pharmacy to any of the following: (1) A person or persons authorized...

(a) Any pharmacy located outside this state that ships, mails, or delivers, in any manner, controlled substances, dangerous drugs, or dangerous devices into this state shall be...

(a) Every pharmacy shall designate a pharmacist-in-charge and within 30 days thereof, shall notify the board in writing of the identity and license number of that pharmacist and the date he...

An intern pharmacist may perform any activities pertaining to the practice of pharmacy as the board may determine by regulation. Whenever in this chapter the performance of an act is restricted...

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacy technician may perform packaging, manipulative, repetitive, or other nondiscretionary tasks, only while assisting, and while...

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacy technician student may be placed in a pharmacy as a pharmacy technician trainee to complete an externship for the purpose...

(a) No person other than a pharmacist, an intern pharmacist, an authorized officer of the law, or a person authorized to prescribe shall be permitted in that area, place, or premises described...

No person other than a pharmacist, an intern pharmacist, a pharmacy technician, an authorized officer of the law, a person authorized to prescribe, a registered nurse, a licensed vocational nurse,...

(a) When, in the opinion of the board, a high standard of patient safety, consistent with good patient care, can be provided by the licensure of a pharmacy that does not meet all...

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacy may furnish a dangerous drug or dangerous device to a licensed health care facility for storage in a secured...

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacy may furnish epinephrine auto-injectors to a school district or county office of education pursuant to Section 49414 of the Education...

(a) A pharmacy can transfer a reasonable supply of dangerous drugs to another pharmacy. (b) A pharmacy may repackage and furnish to a prescriber a reasonable quantity of dangerous drugs...

(a) A nonresident pharmacy shall not sell or distribute dangerous drugs or dangerous devices in this state through any person or media other than a wholesaler who has obtained a...

(a) Notwithstanding Section 651, an advertisement of the retail price for a drug that requires a prescription shall be limited to quantities of the drug that are consistent with...

(a) In every pharmacy there shall be prominently posted in a place conspicuous to and readable by prescription drug consumers a notice provided by the board concerning the...

Any pharmacy that contracts to compound a drug for parenteral therapy, pursuant to a prescription, for delivery to another pharmacy shall report that contractual arrangement to the...

(a) Notwithstanding Section 2543, a pharmacist may dispense replacement contact lenses pursuant to a valid prescription of a physician or optometrist. Nothing in this section...

(f) Any pharmacy and pharmacist dispensing replacement contact lenses shall be subject to all statutes, regulations, and ordinances governing the advertisement of contact lenses. In...

(a) Every pharmacy shall establish a quality assurance program that shall, at a minimum, document medication errors attributable, in whole or in part, to the pharmacy or its personnel. The...

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a covered entity may contract with a pharmacy to provide pharmacy services to patients of the covered entity, as defined in Section 256b of...

The board shall adopt regulations establishing standards for compounding injectable sterile drug products in a pharmacy....

(a) A pharmacy shall not compound injectable sterile drug products in this state unless the pharmacy has obtained a license from the board pursuant to this section. The license shall...

(a) A nonresident pharmacy may not compound injectable sterile drug products for shipment into the State of California without a license issued by the board pursuant to this section....

(a) Whenever the board has a reasonable belief, based on information obtained during an inspection or investigation by the board, that a pharmacy compounding injectable sterile drug products poses...

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a violation of this article, or regulations adopted pursuant thereto, may subject the person or entity that committed the violation to a fine of...

The fee for the issuance of a license, or renewal of a license, to compound sterile drug products shall be five hundred dollars ($500) and may be increased to six hundred dollars ($600)....

This article shall become operative upon the allocation of positions to the board for the implementation of the provisions of this article in the annual Budget Act....

No person shall possess or have under his or her control any hypodermic needle or syringe except when acquired in accordance with this article....

No person shall furnish hypodermic needles or syringes, by sale or otherwise, without a license issued by the board, except as otherwise provided by this article....

Except as otherwise provided by this article, no hypodermic needle or syringe shall be sold at retail except upon the prescription of a physician, dentist, veterinarian, or podiatrist....

This article shall not apply to the sale of hypodermic syringes and needles at wholesale by pharmacies, drug wholesalers, drug manufacturers or manufacturers and dealers in surgical instruments...

A person may sell or obtain hypodermic needles and hypodermic syringes without a prescription or permit, for uses that the board determines are industrial, and that person shall not be...

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacist or physician may, without a prescription or a permit, furnish hypodermic needles and syringes for human use in the administration...

Any furnishing of a hypodermic syringe or hypodermic needle without a prescription shall, at the time of furnishing, be recorded in a book by the furnisher. The record of furnishing...

Any hypodermic needle or syringe that is to be disposed of, shall be contained, treated, and disposed of, pursuant to Part 14 (commencing with Section 117600) of Division 104 of the...

All stocks of hypodermic needles or syringes shall be confiscated if found outside the licensed premises of any person holding a permit under Section 4141 and found not in the possession or under...

(a) A nonresident distributor shall not sell or distribute hypodermic needles or syringes in this state without obtaining a license from the board pursuant to Section 4141. (b)...

(a) A pharmacy corporation means a corporation that is authorized to render professional services, as defined in Section 13401 of the Corporations Code, so long as that corporation...

Each shareholder, director, and officer of a pharmacy corporation, except an assistant secretary and an assistant treasurer, shall be a licensed person as defined in Section 13401...

The name of a pharmacy corporation and any name or names under which it may render professional services shall contain the word pharmacist, pharmacy, or pharmaceutical and...

The income of a pharmacy corporation attributable to professional services rendered while a shareholder is a disqualified person, as defined in Section 13401 of the Corporations Code, shall not...

The board may adopt and enforce regulations to carry out the purposes and objectives of this article, including regulations requiring (a) that the bylaws of a pharmacy corporation shall...

Nothing in this article shall be construed as requiring the applicant or holder of a pharmacy permit pursuant to Section 4110 to be a pharmacy corporation....

A pharmacy corporation shall not do, or fail to do, any act where doing or failing to do the act would constitute unprofessional conduct under any statute or regulation. In the conduct...

(a) No person shall act as a wholesaler of any dangerous drug or dangerous device unless he or she has obtained a license from the board. Upon approval by the board and the payment of...

(a) No person shall act as an out-of-state manufacturer or wholesaler of dangerous drugs or dangerous devices doing business in this state who has not obtained an out-of-state dangerous...

(a) No person acting as principal or agent for any out-of-state manufacturer, wholesaler, or pharmacy who has not obtained a license from the board, and who sells or distributes dangerous drugs...

No manufacturer or wholesaler shall furnish any dangerous drugs or dangerous devices to any unauthorized persons....

All wholesalers licensed by the board and all manufacturers who distribute controlled substances, dangerous drugs, or dangerous devices within or into this state shall report to the board...

(a) Any manufacturer who sells or transfers any dangerous drug or dangerous device into this state or who receives, by sale or otherwise, any dangerous drug or dangerous device from any...

(a) Any wholesaler or other distributor that uses the services of any carrier, including, but not limited to, the United States Postal Service or any common carrier, shall be liable...

A wholesaler shall not obtain, by purchase or otherwise, any dangerous drugs or dangerous devices that it cannot maintain, in a secure manner, on the premises licensed by the board....

(a) No prescriber shall dispense drugs or dangerous devices to patients in his or her office or place of practice unless all of the following conditions are met: (1) The dangerous drugs...

(a) Section 4170 shall not prohibit the furnishing of a limited quantity of samples by a prescriber, if the prescriber dispenses the samples to the patient in the package provided...

A prescriber who dispenses drugs pursuant to Section 4170 shall store all drugs to be dispensed in an area that is secure. The Medical Board of California shall, by regulation, define...

This chapter does not prevent the dispensing of drugs or devices by registered nurses functioning pursuant to Section 2725.1....

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacist may dispense drugs or devices upon the drug order of a nurse practitioner functioning pursuant to Section 2836.1 or a certified...

(a) The California State Board of Pharmacy shall promptly forward to the appropriate licensing entity, including the Medical Board of California, the Veterinary Medical Board, the Dental...

(a) (1) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, any of the following clinics may purchase drugs at wholesale for administration or dispensing, under the direction of a...

(a) Prior to the issuance of a clinic license authorized under Section 4180, the clinic shall comply with all applicable laws and regulations of the State Department of Health Services...

(a) Each clinic that makes an application for a license under Section 4180 shall show evidence that the professional director is responsible for the safe, orderly, and lawful provision...

No clinic dispensing drugs pursuant to this article shall be eligible for any professional dispensing fee that may be authorized under the Medi-Cal program (Chapter 7 (commencing with...

No Schedule II controlled substance shall be dispensed by the clinic. This limitation shall not be construed to prohibit a physician dispensing a Schedule II drug to the extent permitted by law....

The board shall have the authority to inspect a clinic at any time in order to determine whether a clinic is, or is not, operating in compliance with this article....

(a) Automated drug delivery systems, as defined in subdivision (h), may be located in any clinic licensed by the board pursuant to Section 4180. If an automated drug delivery system is located...

(a) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, a surgical clinic, as defined in paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 1204 of the Health and Safety Code may purchase drugs...

(a) Prior to the issuance of a clinic license authorized under this article the clinic shall comply with all applicable laws and regulations of the State Department of Health Services...

Each clinic that makes an application for a license under this article shall show evidence that the professional director is responsible for the safe, orderly, and lawful provision...

No clinic holding a license pursuant to this article shall be eligible for any professional dispensing fee that may be authorized under the Medi-Cal program (Chapter 7 (commencing with...

No Schedule II controlled substance shall be dispensed in the clinic. This limitation does not prohibit a physician from dispensing a Schedule II drug to the extent permitted by...

The board shall have the authority to inspect a clinic at any time in order to determine whether a clinic is, or is not, operating in compliance with this article and all other provisions of...

(a) No person shall conduct a veterinary food-animal drug retailer in the State of California unless he or she has obtained a license from the board. A license shall be required...

(a) The following minimum standards shall apply to all veterinary food-animal drug retailers licensed by the board: (1) Each retailer shall store veterinary food-animal drugs in...

(a) Each veterinary food-animal drug retailer shall have written policies and procedures related to the handling and dispensing of veterinary food-animal drugs by veterinary...

(a) Any veterinary food-animal drug dispensed pursuant to a prescription from a licensed veterinarian for food producing animals from a veterinary food-animal drug retailer pursuant to...

(a) The board shall license as a pharmacist, and issue a certificate to, any applicant who meets all the following requirements: (1) Is at least 18 years of age. (2) (A) Has graduated from...

(b) Proof of the qualifications of an applicant for licensure as a pharmacist, shall be made to the satisfaction of the board and shall be substantiated by affidavits or other evidence as may...

(a) Notwithstanding Section 135, commencing July 1, 1998, an applicant who fails to pass the examination required by Section 4200 after four attempts shall not be eligible...

When developing the Multi-State Pharmacy Jurisprudence Examination for California, the board shall include all of the following: (a) Examination items to demonstrate the...

(a) The examination process shall be regularly reviewed pursuant to Section 139. (b) The examination process shall meet the standards and guidelines set forth in the Standards for...

An applicant who fails the national examination may not retake the examination for at least 90 days or for a period established by regulations adopted by the board in consultation with the...

(a) The board shall issue, upon application and payment of the fee established by Section 4400, a retired license to a pharmacist who has been licensed by the board. The board shall not issue...

(a) Each application to conduct a pharmacy, wholesaler, or veterinary food-animal drug retailer, shall be made on a form furnished by the board, and shall state the name, address,...

(a) An applicant for registration as a pharmacy technician shall be issued a certificate of registration if he or she is a high school graduate or possesses a general...

(a) Each application for a license under Section 4180 shall be made on a form furnished by the board. The form of application for a license under Section 4180 shall contain the name...

(a) Each application for a license under Section 4190 shall be made on a form furnished by the board. The form of application for a license under this article shall contain the name...

(a) A license issued pursuant to Section 4110, 4120, 4130, 4160, or 4161 shall be considered a license within the meaning of Section 4141. (b) The board may, in its discretion, issue a...

The rules of professional conduct adopted by the board shall be printed as a part of the application for licenses and every applicant shall subscribe thereto when making an application....

Upon receipt of an application for a license and the applicable fee, the board shall make a thorough investigation to determine whether the applicant and the premises for which a...

The board shall not issue any renewal certificate unless the applicant submits proof satisfactory to the board that he or she has successfully completed approved courses of...

(a) The courses shall be in the form of postgraduate studies, institutes, seminars, lectures, conferences, workshops, extension studies, correspondence courses, and other similar...

The board may, in accordance with the intent of this article, make exceptions from the requirements of this article in emergency or hardship cases.

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(a) The California Hazardous Substances Act, Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 108100) of Part 3 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code, applies to pharmacies and pharmacists and...

(a) Every license issued may be suspended or revoked. (b) The board shall discipline the holder of any license issued by the board, whose default has been entered or whose case has...

The board shall take action against any holder of a license who is guilty of unprofessional conduct or whose license has been procured by fraud or misrepresentation or issued...

(a) If a pharmacist possesses a license or is otherwise authorized to practice pharmacy in any other state or by an agency of the federal government, and that license or authority is...

The board may deny, suspend, or revoke any license of a corporation where conditions exist in relation to any person holding 10 percent or more of the corporate stock of the corporation,...

(a) The board may deny, revoke, or suspend a nonresident pharmacy registration for failure to comply with any requirement of Section 4112, 4124, or 4340, for any significant or repeated...

The board may deny, revoke, or suspend any license issued pursuant to Section 4161 for any violation of this chapter or for any violation of Part 5 (commencing with Section 109875) of...

(a) Any person who has obtained a license to conduct a pharmacy, shall notify the board within 30 days of the termination of employment of any pharmacist who takes charge of, or acts as...

(a) Any person who has obtained a license to conduct a wholesaler or veterinary food-animal drug retailer, shall notify the board within 30 days of the termination of employment of any pharmacist...

It shall constitute unprofessional conduct and a violation of this chapter for any person licensed under this chapter to violate, attempt to violate, directly or indirectly, or assist in or...

Unprofessional conduct for a pharmacist may include acts or omissions that involve, in whole or in part, the exercise of his or her education, training, or experience as a pharmacist,...

If the board disciplines a pharmacist-in-charge for the violation of a state or federal law or regulation committed by another person and the pharmacist-in-charge reported to the...

(a) Any person who has been denied a license or whose license has been revoked or is under suspension, or who has failed to renew his or her license while it was under suspension, or who has...

Whenever a person is prohibited from serving as a manager, administrator, owner, member, officer, director, associate, or partner of a licensee as provided by Section 4307, the board shall, in...

(a) A person whose license has been revoked or suspended or who has been placed on probation may petition the board for reinstatement or modification of penalty, including...

Immediately upon the denial of any application for a license the board shall notify the applicant in writing. Within 10 days after the board mails the notice, the applicant may present his...

(a) Any license issued by the board, or the holder thereof, shall be suspended automatically during any time that the person is incarcerated after conviction of a felony, regardless of...

(a) The board may cancel the license of a wholesaler, pharmacy, or veterinary food-animal drug retailer if the licensed premises remain closed, as defined in subdivision (e), other than...

In determining whether to grant an application for licensure or whether to discipline or reinstate a license, the board shall give consideration to evidence of rehabilitation....

(a) The board may issue citations containing fines and orders of abatement for any violation of this chapter or regulations adopted pursuant to this chapter, in accordance with...

(a) The executive officer, or his or her designee, may issue a letter of admonishment to a licensee for failure to comply with this chapter or regulations adopted pursuant to...

(B) Prior to or at the office conference the licensee may submit to the executive officer declarations and documents pertinent to the subject matter of the letter of admonishment. (C) The...

(a) The penalties prescribed in this chapter may be recovered in any court having jurisdiction, by a civil action instituted by the board in the name of the State of California, or...

(a) Any person who knowingly violates any of the provisions of this chapter, when no other penalty is provided, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by...

Any person who attempts to secure or secures licensure for himself or herself or any other person under this chapter by making or causing to be made any false representations, or...

Every person who, in order to obtain any drug, falsely represents himself or herself to be a physician or other person who can lawfully prescribe the drug, or falsely represents that he or...

(a) Every person who signs the name of another, or of a fictitious person, or falsely makes, alters, forges, utters, publishes, passes, or attempts to pass, as genuine, any prescription for...

(a) No person other than a physician, dentist, podiatrist, veterinarian, pharmacist, or other person authorized by law to dispense, administer, or prescribe controlled substances, or...

(a) Any person who obtains a hypodermic needle or hypodermic syringe by a false or fraudulent representation or design or by a forged or fictitious name, or contrary to, or in violation of,...

Any person who, while on duty, sells, dispenses or compounds any drug while under the influence of any dangerous drug or alcoholic beverages shall be guilty of a misdemeanor....

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, any person who permits the compounding or dispensing of prescriptions, or the furnishing of dangerous drugs in his or her pharmacy, except...

Any nonpharmacist who takes charge of or acts as manager of any pharmacy or who compounds or dispenses a prescription or furnishes dangerous drugs except as otherwise provided in this chapter...

(a) Any person who has obtained a license to conduct a pharmacy, who fails to place in charge of the pharmacy a pharmacist, or any person, who by himself or herself, or by any other...

(a) Any person who is neither a pharmacist nor an exemptee and who takes charge of a wholesaler or veterinary food-animal drug retailer or who dispenses a prescription or furnishes...

Any person who fails, neglects, or refuses to maintain the records required by Section 4081 or who, when called upon by an authorized officer or a member of the board, fails, neglects,...

(a) All prescriptions filled by a pharmacy and all other records required by Section 4081 shall be maintained on the premises and available for inspection by authorized officers of the law...

Any person who knowingly violates subdivision (b) of Section 4312 is guilty of a misdemeanor....

(a) Every person who knowingly or willfully violates Section 4055, 4059, 4060, 4061, 4062, 4063, 4064, 4065, 4077, 4080, 4081, 4083, or 4332 with respect to dangerous drugs by use of a minor...

Except as otherwise specified, all fines collected for violations of this chapter shall be paid as follows: one-half into the State Treasury to the credit of the Contingent Fund of the...

In addition to any fine assessed under Section 4321, the judge may assess a fine not to exceed seventy dollars ($70) against any person who violates Section 4140 or 4142, with the proceeds...

(a) The board may bring an action to enjoin the violation of any provision of this chapter in any superior court in and for the county in which the violation has occurred. Any action...

It is unlawful for any nonresident pharmacy that is not registered pursuant to Section 4112 or for any person who is a resident of this state to advertise the pharmacy services of any pharmacy,...

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, prescription drugs or devices may be advertised if the advertisement conforms with the requirements of Section 651....

(a) The board may institute any action or actions as may be provided by law and that, in its discretion, are necessary, to prevent the sale of pharmaceutical preparations and drugs that...

No building shall have upon it or displayed within it or affixed to or used in connection with it a sign bearing the word or words Pharmacist, Pharmacy, Apothecary,...

It is the intent of the Legislature that the board seek ways and means to identify and rehabilitate pharmacists whose competency may be impaired due to abuse of alcohol and other drugs, or...

As used in this article: (a) Diversion program means a rehabilitation program designed and administered by a contracting Employee Assistance Program, available to the board in conjunction...

The program shall fulfill two distinct functions. It shall serve as a diversion program to which the board may refer licentiates, where appropriate, instead of, or in addition to, other means...

The program shall fulfill two distinct functions. It shall serve as a diversion program to which the board may refer licentiates, where appropriate, instead of, or in addition to, other means...

The board shall administer this article, provided that the names and all identifying information pertaining to those pharmacists who voluntarily seek the services of the program, apart...

The board shall establish criteria for the participation of pharmacists in the recovery program....

The board shall contract with one or more employee assistance programs to administer the pharmacists recovery program statewide. The contractor shall be selected through a competitive...

The functions of the employee assistance program shall include the following: (a) To evaluate those pharmacists who request participation in the program according to the guidelines...

The board shall designate a program coordinator whose responsibilities shall include the following: (a) To serve as liaison between the board and the employee assistance program. (b)...

The board shall contract with a pharmacists' professional association with statewide representation for the following purposes:...

(a) The board shall inform, in writing, each pharmacist referred to the employees assistance program as part of a board action of the procedures followed in the program, of the...

(a) The employee assistance program shall inform, in writing, each pharmacist who voluntarily participates in the diversion program without referral by the board of the procedures followed...

The board shall review the activities of the employee assistance program on a quarterly basis. As part of this evaluation, the board shall review files of all participants in...

All board records and records of the employee assistance program pertaining to the treatment of a pharmacist in the program shall be kept confidential and are not subject to discovery or subpoena....

No member of the board or the contracting professional association or any volunteer intervenor shall be liable for any civil damages because of acts or omissions that may occur while...

(a) The resale, by any person, of drugs acquired at preferentially low prices permitted under federal law only because of the Nonprofit Institutions Act (15 U.S.C. Sec. 13c) is...

(a) A violation of this article is an act of unfair competition within the meaning of Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 17200) of Part 2 of Division 7, and this article is enforceable...

The board may audit persons for compliance with the limits established in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 4380 except that in the case of a facility or pharmacy...

The amount of fees and penalties prescribed by this chapter, except as otherwise provided, is that fixed by the board according to the following schedule: (a) The fee for a...

Every pharmacist who desires to retain his or her license on the books of the board shall biennially pay to the executive officer of the board the renewal fee, established by the board,...

(a) Any pharmacist license that is not renewed within three years following its expiration may not be renewed, restored, or reinstated and shall be canceled by operation of law at the end...

The board shall not reissue or renew any license without the payment of the fees required by this chapter and the payment of all fees that are delinquent at the time that the application is made....

If any license issued under this chapter is lost or destroyed, or if any person desires a reissuance of his or her license, the board may reissue it, subject to Section 4403,...

All fines recoverable under this chapter shall be paid by the magistrate receiving the same to the board, except where other provision is made in this chapter for the disposition thereof....

All fees collected on behalf of the board and all receipts of every kind and nature shall be reported each month for the month preceding to the State Controller and at the same time...

All compensation of members and all other expenses of the board shall be paid out of the examination and registration fees and fines....

At the time a pharmacy license is renewed pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 4110 or a pharmacist license is renewed pursuant to Section 4401, the pharmacy or pharmacist may...

(a) As a condition for the participation of a pharmacy in the Medi-Cal program pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions...

The State Department of Health Services shall conduct a study of the adequacy of Medi-Cal pharmacy reimbursement rates including the cost of providing prescription drugs and services....