(a) The administrator or any of the administrator’s agents may make administrative inspections of controlled premises upon presenting appropriate credentials to the registrant or persons subject to parts III, IV, VIII, and IX of this chapter or their agents in accordance with the following provisions:

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Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-52

  • Administrator: means the administrator of the narcotics enforcement division of the department of law enforcement. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Agent: means an authorized person who acts on behalf of or at the direction of a manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Controlled substance: means a drug, substance, or immediate precursor in schedules I through V of part II. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • 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 administering of a practitioner's controlled substances, and packaging, labeling, or compounding necessary to prepare the substance for that delivery. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • Drug: means :

    (1) 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;
    (2) Substances intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or animals;
    (3) Substances (other than food) intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of man or animals; and
    (4) Substances intended for use as a component of any article specified in clause (1), (2), or (3) of this subsection. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
  • 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.
  • Manufacture: means the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, conversion, or processing of a controlled substance, either directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of natural origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis, and includes any packaging or repackaging of the substance or labeling or relabeling of its container, except that this term does not include the preparation or compounding of a controlled substance by an individual for the individual's own use or the preparation, compounding, packaging, or labeling of a controlled substance:

    (1) By a practitioner as an incident to the practitioner's administering or dispensing of a controlled substance in the course of the practitioner's professional practice, or
    (2) By a practitioner, or by the practitioner's authorized agent under the practitioner's supervision, for the purpose of, or as an incident to, research, teaching, or chemical analysis and not for sale. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 329-1
(1) Inspections shall be at reasonable times and within reasonable limits and in a reasonable manner of controlled premises and vehicles in which persons registered or exempted from registration requirements under this chapter are permitted to hold, manufacture, compound, process, sell, dispense, deliver, or otherwise dispose of any controlled substance or regulated chemical designated under § 329-61 and all pertinent equipment, finished and unfinished materials, containers, and labeling therein to determine if this chapter is being violated;
(2) The administrator or any of the administrator’s agents shall have access to and may copy any and all records, books, logs, or documents pertaining to the administering, prescribing, dispensing, or sale of controlled substances or regulated chemicals designated under this chapter without a warrant; and
(3) The administrator or any of the administrator’s agents may inventory any stock of any controlled substance or regulated chemical designated under § 329-61 and secure samples or specimens of any drug, device, or chemical not seized as evidence by paying or offering to pay for the sample. The administrator shall make or cause to be made examinations of samples secured under this section to determine whether or not this chapter is being violated.
(b) An inspection of records authorized by this section shall not extend to financial data relating to pricing of items other than shipment and sale amounts, unless the owner, operator, or agent in charge of the controlled premises consents in writing.
(c) For purposes of this section, “controlled premises” means:

(1) Places where persons registered or exempted from registration requirements under this chapter are required to keep records; and
(2) Places, including factories, warehouses, establishments, and conveyances in which persons registered or exempted from registration requirements under this chapter are permitted to hold, manufacture, compound, process, sell, dispense, deliver, conduct chemical analysis, or otherwise dispose of any controlled substance or regulated chemical designated under § 329-61.