Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 16 > Chapter 47 > Subchapter III-A - Safe Internet Pharmacy Act

• 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
• Dispense: means to deliver a controlled substance to an ultimate user or research subject by or pursuant to the lawful order of a practitioner, including the prescribing for a legitimate medical purpose by an individual practitioner in the usual course of the practitioner's professional practice, administering, packaging, labeling or compounding necessary to prepare the substance for that delivery. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Distribute: means to deliver other than by administering or dispensing a controlled substance. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Division: means the Division of Public Health. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 101
• 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
• 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.
• Knowingly: means a person acts knowingly with respect to any delivery, possession, use or consumption within the meaning of this chapter when the person knows or is aware of such delivery, possession, use or consumption. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Licensed practitioner: means any individual who is authorized by law to prescribe drugs in the course of professional practice or research in any state. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Patient-practitioner relationship: means , with respect to prescribing drugs for a patient, that the practitioner is a licensed practitioner who:

  a. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701

• Peace Officer: means any public officer authorized by law to make arrests in a criminal case. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 101
• 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
• Place of public entertainment: shall mean an establishment that accommodates more than 100 individuals. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 7908
• Practitioner: means :

  a. 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
• Prescription drug order: means any written, verbal, or electronic order of a practitioner for a prescription drug issued in accordance with regulations promulgated under this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
• Public restroom: shall mean a public sanitary facility that contains more than 1 plumbing fixture. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 7908
• 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
• State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302