Connecticut General Statutes 20-610 – Dispensing or retail sale of legend drugs, legend devices and certain other drugs by other than pharmacies and hospitals, prohibited
(a) No legend drug, legend device or drugs listed in subsection (b) of this section may be dispensed or sold at retail except (1) in a pharmacy, (2) by a hospital licensed under sections 19a-490 to 19a-503, inclusive, to an employee of the hospital when prescribed by a prescribing practitioner for the employee or the employee’s spouse or dependent children, or (3) by such hospital to a retiree of such hospital or the retiree’s spouse in accordance with the retiree’s retirement or pension plan.
Terms Used In Connecticut General Statutes 20-610
- Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
- Device: means instruments, apparatuses and contrivances, including their components, parts and accessories, intended (A) for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in humans or other animals, or (B) to affect the structure or any function of the body of humans or other animals, but does not mean contact lenses. See Connecticut General Statutes 20-571
- Drug: means (A) an article recognized in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States or official National Formulary, or any supplement to any of them, (B) an article intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in humans or other animals, (C) an article, other than food, intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of humans or any other animal, and (D) an article intended for use as a component of any article specified in this subdivision, but does not include a device. See Connecticut General Statutes 20-571
- Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate trust, partnership, association, joint venture or any other legal or commercial entity. See Connecticut General Statutes 20-571
- Pharmacy: means a place of business where drugs and devices may be sold at retail and for which a pharmacy license has been issued to an applicant under the provisions of section 20-594. See Connecticut General Statutes 20-571
- Prescribing practitioner: means an individual licensed by the state of Connecticut, any other state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States who is authorized to issue a prescription within the scope of the individual's practice. See Connecticut General Statutes 20-571
(b) The following drugs may not be sold at retail except as permitted in subsection (a) of this section: (1) Injectable or ingestible antibiotics; (2) injectable biologicals; (3) sulfonamides and their compounds which are designed to be taken into the stomach for systemic action; (4) injectable or ingestible corticosteroids; or (5) camphorated tincture of opium.
(c) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.