North Carolina General Statutes 90-106.1. Photo ID requirement for Schedule II controlled substances
Terms Used In North Carolina General Statutes 90-106.1
- Controlled substance: means a drug, substance, or immediate precursor included in Schedules I through VI of this Article. See North Carolina General Statutes 90-87
- following: when used by way of reference to any section of a statute, shall be construed to mean the section next preceding or next following that in which such reference is made; unless when some other section is expressly designated in such reference. See North Carolina General Statutes 12-3
- Person: means individual, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See North Carolina General Statutes 90-87
- Prescription: means :
(a) Immediately prior to dispensing a Schedule II controlled substance, or any of the Schedule III controlled substances listed in subdivisions 1. through 8. of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-91(d), each pharmacy holding a valid permit pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-85.21 shall require the person seeking the dispensation to present one of the following valid, unexpired forms of government-issued photographic identification: (i) a drivers license, (ii) a special identification card issued under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 20-37.7, (iii) a military identification card, or (iv) a passport. Upon presentation of the required photographic identification, the pharmacy shall document the name of the person seeking the dispensation, the type of photographic identification presented by the person seeking the dispensation, and the photographic identification number. The pharmacy shall retain this identifying information on the premises or at a central location apart from the premises as part of its business records for a period of three years following dispensation.
(b) The pharmacy shall make the identifying information available to any person authorized under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-113.74 to receive prescription information data in the controlled substances reporting system within 72 hours after a request for the identifying information. A pharmacy that submits the identifying information required under this section to the controlled substances reporting system established and maintained pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-113.73 is deemed in compliance with this subsection.
(c) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to require that the person seeking the dispensation and the person to whom the prescription is issued be the same person, and nothing in this section shall apply to the dispensation of controlled substances to employees of “health care facilities”, as that term is defined in N.C. Gen. Stat. § 131E-256(b), when the controlled substances are delivered to the health care facilities for the benefit of residents or patients of such health care facilities. (2011-349, s. 1.)