Terms Used In Arizona Laws > Title 32 > Chapter 18 > Article 2 - Licensure and Permits

• Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Administer: means directly applying a controlled substance, prescription-only drug, dangerous drug or narcotic drug, whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion or any other means, to the body of a patient or research subject by a practitioner or by the practitioner's authorized agent or the patient or research subject at the direction of the practitioner. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Advisory letter: means a nondisciplinary letter to notify a licensee or permittee that either:

  (a) While there is insufficient evidence to support disciplinary action, the board believes that continuation of the activities that led to the investigation may result in further board action against the licensee or permittee. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• Automated prescription-dispensing kiosk: means a mechanical system that is operated as an extension of a pharmacy, that maintains all transaction information within the pharmacy operating system, that is separately permitted from the pharmacy and that performs operations that either:

  (a) Accept a prescription or refill order, store prepackaged or repackaged medications, label and dispense patient-specific prescriptions and provide counseling on new or refilled prescriptions. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

• board of pharmacy: means the Arizona state board of pharmacy. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Cease and Desist Letter: A letter requesting that a company stops the activity mentioned in the letter. ^{Source: OCC}
• Color additive: means a material that either:

  (a) Is any dye, pigment or other substance that is made by a process of synthesis or similar artifice or that is extracted, isolated or otherwise derived, with or without intermediate or final change of identity, from any vegetable, animal, mineral or other source. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Compounding: means preparing, mixing, assembling, packaging or labeling a drug by a pharmacist or an intern or pharmacy technician under the pharmacist's supervision, for the purpose of dispensing to a patient based on a valid prescription order. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Compressed medical gas distributor: means a person that holds a current permit issued by the board to distribute compressed medical gases to compressed medical gas suppliers and other entities that are registered, licensed or permitted to use, administer or distribute compressed medical gases. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Compressed medical gas supplier: means a person that holds a current permit issued by the board to supply compressed medical gases pursuant to a compressed medical gas order and only to the consumer or the patient. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Controlled substance: means a drug, substance or immediate precursor that is identified, defined or listed in Title 36, Chapter 27, Article 2 or the rules adopted pursuant to Title 36, Chapter 27, article 2. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Decree of censure: means an official action that is taken by the board and that may include a requirement for restitution of fees to a patient or consumer. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• delivery: means the actual, constructive or attempted transfer from one person to another whether or not there is an agency relationship. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Direct supervision of a pharmacist: means that the pharmacist is present. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Director: means the director of the division of narcotics enforcement and criminal investigation of the department of public safety. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Dispense: means to deliver to an ultimate user or research subject by or pursuant to the lawful order of a practitioner, including prescribing, administering, packaging, labeling or compounding as necessary to prepare for that delivery. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Dispenser: means a practitioner who dispenses. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Distribute: means to deliver, other than by administering or dispensing. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Distributor: means a person who distributes. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Drug: means :

  (a) Articles that are recognized, or for which standards or specifications are prescribed, in the official compendium. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

• Durable medical equipment: means technologically sophisticated medical equipment as prescribed by the board in rule that a patient or consumer may use in a home or residence and that may be a prescription-only device. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Executive director: means the executive director of the board of pharmacy. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• hazardous substance: includes any of the following if intended and suitable for household use or use by children:

  (a) Any substance that, according to standard works on medicine, pharmacology, pharmacognosy or toxicology, if applied to, introduced into or developed within the body in relatively small quantities by its inherent action uniformly produces serious bodily injury, disease or death. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

• Hospital: means any institution for the care and treatment of the sick and injured that is approved and licensed as a hospital by the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Intern: means a pharmacy intern. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Internship: means the practical, experiential, hands-on training of a pharmacy intern under the supervision of a preceptor. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Jurisprudence: The study of law and the structure of the legal system.
• Jurisprudence examination: means a board-approved pharmacy law examination that is written and administered in cooperation with the national association of boards of pharmacy or another board-approved pharmacy law examination. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Labeling: means all labels and other written, printed or graphic matter that either:

  (a) Is on any article or any of its containers or wrappers. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

• Letter of reprimand: means a disciplinary letter that is a public document issued by the board and that informs a licensee or permittee that the licensee's or permittee's conduct violates state or federal law and may require the board to monitor the licensee or permittee. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Limited service pharmacy: means a pharmacy that is approved by the board to practice a limited segment of pharmacy as indicated by the permit issued by the board. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Medical practitioner: means any medical doctor, doctor of osteopathic medicine, dentist, podiatrist, veterinarian or other person who is licensed and authorized by law to use and prescribe drugs and devices to treat sick and injured human beings or animals or to diagnose or prevent sickness in human beings or animals in this state or any state, territory or district of the United States. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Notice: means personal service or the mailing of a copy of the notice by certified mail and email addressed either to the person at the person's latest address of record in the board office or to the person and the person's attorney using the most recent information provided to the board in the board's licensing database. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Other jurisdiction: means one of the other forty-nine states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or a territory of the United States of America. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Package: means a receptacle that is defined or described in the United States pharmacopeia and the national formulary as adopted by the board. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Packaging: means the act or process of placing a drug item or device in a container for the purpose or intent of dispensing or distributing the item or device to another. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Person: means an individual, partnership, corporation and association, and their duly authorized agents. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Pharmacist: means an individual who is currently licensed by the board to practice the profession of pharmacy in this state. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Pharmacist in charge: means the pharmacist who is responsible to the board for a licensed establishment's compliance with the laws and administrative rules of this state and of the federal government pertaining to the practice of pharmacy, the manufacturing of drugs and the distribution of drugs and devices. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Pharmacist licensure examination: means a board-approved examination that is written and administered in cooperation with the national association of boards of pharmacy or any other board-approved pharmacist licensure examination. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Pharmacy: means :

  (a) Any place where drugs, devices, poisons or related hazardous substances are offered for sale at retail or where prescription orders are dispensed by a licensed pharmacist. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

• Pharmacy intern: means a person who has all of the qualifications and experience prescribed in section 32-1923. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Pharmacy technician: means a person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Pharmacy technician trainee: means a person who is licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Practitioner: means any physician, dentist, veterinarian, scientific investigator or other person who is licensed, registered or otherwise permitted to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to or administer a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research in this state, or any pharmacy, hospital or other institution that is licensed, registered or otherwise permitted to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to or administer a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or research in this state. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Preceptor: means a pharmacist who is serving as the practical instructor of an intern and who complies with section 32-1923. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Precursor chemical: means a substance that is:

  (a) The principal compound that is commonly used or that is produced primarily for use and that is an immediate chemical intermediary used or likely to be used in the manufacture of a controlled substance, the control of which is necessary to prevent, curtail or limit manufacture. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

• Prescription: means either a prescription order or a prescription medication. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Prescription medication: means any drug, including label and container according to context, that is dispensed pursuant to a prescription order. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Prescription order: means any of the following:

  (a) An order to a pharmacist for drugs or devices that is issued and signed by a duly licensed medical practitioner in the authorized course of the practitioner's professional practice. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• Professionally incompetent: means :

  (a) Incompetence based on a variety of factors, including a lack of sufficient pharmaceutical knowledge or skills or experience to a degree likely to endanger the health of patients. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

• Remote dispensing site pharmacy: means a pharmacy where a pharmacy technician or pharmacy intern prepares, compounds or dispenses prescription medications under remote supervision by a pharmacist. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Remote hospital-site pharmacy: means a pharmacy located in a satellite facility that operates under the license issued by the department of health services to the hospital of which it is a satellite. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• revoke: means the official cancellation of a license, permit, registration or other approval authorized by the board for a period of two years unless otherwise specified by the board. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Safely engage in employment duties: means that a permittee or the permittee's employee is able to safely engage in employment duties related to the manufacture, sale, distribution or dispensing of drugs, devices, poisons, hazardous substances, controlled substances or precursor chemicals. See Arizona Laws 32-1901
• Third-party logistics provider: means an entity that provides or coordinates warehousing or other logistics services for the following items, but that does not take ownership of the items, and that distributes those items as directed by a manufacturer, wholesaler, dispenser or durable medical equipment supplier that is permitted by the board:

  (a) Narcotic drugs or other controlled substances. See Arizona Laws 32-1901

• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• unethical conduct: means the following, whether occurring in this state or elsewhere:

  1. See Arizona Laws 32-1901.01

• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Arizona Laws 1-215
• unprofessional conduct: means the following, whether occurring in this state or elsewhere:

  1. See Arizona Laws 32-1901.01

• Writing: includes printing. See Arizona Laws 1-215