Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4743 – Definitions
The following definitions shall be applicable to this subchapter:
(1) “Board” means the Delaware State Board of Pharmacy;
(2) “Delaware patient” means any person residing within or outside of this State who requests an internet pharmacy deliver a prescription drug order to a location within this State;
(3) “Electronic mail” or “e-mail” shall mean any message transmitted through the Internet including, but not limited to, messages transmitted to or from any address affiliated with an internet site;
(4) “Internet” means collectively the international network of interconnected government, educational and commercial computer networks, including equipment and operating software;
(5) “Internet pharmacy” means any person or entity maintaining an internet site which solicits or receives, or offers to solicit or receive, prescription drug orders to be dispensed and delivered to patients, including Delaware patients, by means of the United States Postal Service or any other delivery service. The term “internet pharmacy” does not include a pharmacy which has been issued a valid permit or license by the Board;
(6) “Internet site” means a specific location on the internet that is determined by internet protocol numbers, domain name, or both, including, but not limited to, domain names that use the designations “.com,” “.edu,” “.gov,” “.net” and “.org.”
(7) “Licensed Delaware pharmacist” means a pharmacist licensed by the Board to engage in the practice of pharmacy in this State;
(8) “Link,” with respect to the Internet, means 1 or more letters, words, numbers, symbols, or graphic items that appear on a page of an internet site for the purpose of serving, when activated, as a method for executing an electronic command:
a. To move from viewing 1 portion of a page on such site to another portion of the page; or
b. To move from viewing 1 page on such site to another page on such site; or
c. To move from viewing a page on 1 internet site to a page on another internet site.
76 Del. Laws, c. 410, § ?1; 78 Del. Laws, c. 13, §§ ?30, 31;
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4743
- delivery: means the actual, constructive or attempted transfer from one person to another of a controlled substance, whether or not there is an agency relationship. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
- Drug: means (i) substances recognized as drugs in the official United States Pharmacopoeia, official Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States or official National Formulary or any supplement to any of them; (ii) substances intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or prevention of disease in man or animals; (iii) substances (other than food) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or animals; and (iv) substances intended for use as a component of any article specified in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) of this paragraph. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
- Person: means individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, statutory trust, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
- Prescription drug: means any drug required by federal or state law or regulation to be dispensed only by or on the prescription of a practitioner licensed to prescribe drugs, or which is restricted to use by practitioners only. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
- State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any state, district, commonwealth, territory, insular possession thereof and any area subject to the legal authority of the United States of America. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
- United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302