Montana Code 50-32-302. Exceptions to registration requirement
50-32-302. Exceptions to registration requirement. The following persons need not register and may lawfully possess dangerous drugs under this chapter:
Terms Used In Montana Code 50-32-302
- Agent: means an authorized person who acts on behalf of or at the direction of a manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser. See Montana Code 50-32-101
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Dangerous drug: means a drug, substance, or immediate precursor in Schedules I through V set forth in Title 50, chapter 32, part 2. See Montana Code 50-32-101
- Dispenser: means a practitioner who dispenses. See Montana Code 50-32-101
- Distributor: means a person who distributes. See Montana Code 50-32-101
- Person: means an individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, or any other legal entity. See Montana Code 50-32-101
- Practitioner: means :
(a)a physician, dentist, veterinarian, scientific investigator, or other person licensed, registered, or otherwise permitted to distribute, dispense, or conduct research with respect to or to administer a dangerous drug in the course of professional practice or research in this state;
(b)a pharmacy or other institution licensed, registered, or otherwise permitted to distribute, dispense, or conduct research with respect to or to administer a dangerous drug in the course of professional practice or research in this state; and
(c)a physician licensed to practice medicine or a dentist licensed to practice dentistry in another state. See Montana Code 50-32-101
- State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes a state, district, commonwealth, territory, insular possession of the United States, and any area subject to the legal authority of the United States of America. See Montana Code 50-32-101
- Ultimate user: means a person who lawfully possesses a dangerous drug for personal use or for the use of a member of the person's household or for administering to an animal owned by the person or by a member of the person's household. See Montana Code 50-32-101
- Usual: means according to usage. See Montana Code 1-1-206
(1)an agent or employee of any registered manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser of any dangerous drug if the agent or employee is acting in the usual course of business or employment;
(2)a common or contract carrier or warehouse operator or an employee of the carrier or warehouse operator, whose possession of any dangerous drug is in the usual course of business or employment;
(3)an ultimate user or a person in possession of any dangerous drug pursuant to a lawful order of a practitioner or in lawful possession of a Schedule V drug;
(4)officers and employees of the state, or a political subdivision of the state while acting in the course of their official duties.