Tennessee Code 63-10-503 – Prescription drug donation repository program
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 63-10-503
- Board: means the board of pharmacy. See Tennessee Code 63-10-502
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Department: means the department of health. See Tennessee Code 63-10-502
- distribution: means the sale, purchase, trade, delivery, handling, storage, or receipt of a product or the arrangement of the sale, purchase, trade, delivery, handling, storage, or receipt of a product through third parties. See Tennessee Code 63-10-204
- Drug: means any of the following:
(A) Articles recognized as drugs or drug products in any official compendium or supplement thereto. See Tennessee Code 63-10-204 - Eligible individual: means an indigent, an uninsured person, or an underinsured person who meets the criteria for eligibility pursuant to this part. See Tennessee Code 63-10-502
- Indigent: means a person with an income that is below six hundred percent (600%) of the federal poverty level as defined by the most recently revised poverty income guidelines published by the United States department of health and human services. See Tennessee Code 63-10-502
- Licensure: means the process by which an agency of government grants permission to an individual to engage in a given occupation upon finding that the applicant has attained the minimal degree of competency necessary to ensure that the public health, safety and welfare will be reasonably protected. See Tennessee Code 63-10-204
- Person: means any individual, partnership, association, corporation and the state, its departments, agencies and employees, and the political subdivisions of Tennessee and their departments, agencies and employees, except the department of health and local health departments. See Tennessee Code 63-10-204
- Pharmacist: means an individual health care provider licensed by the state, pursuant to parts 4-6 of this chapter, to practice the profession of pharmacy. See Tennessee Code 63-10-204
- Pharmacy: means a pharmacy as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 63-10-502
- Prescription drug: means a drug that under federal or state law is required to be dispensed only pursuant to a prescription order or is restricted to use by prescribers and that under federal law must be labeled with either the symbol "Rx only" or the statement "Caution: Federal law restricts this drug to use by, or on the order of, a licensed veterinarian". See Tennessee Code 63-10-204
- Repository: means a pharmacy that:
(A) Has a license or permit in good standing with the board. See Tennessee Code 63-10-502 - signed: includes a mark, the name being written near the mark and witnessed, or any other symbol or methodology executed or adopted by a party with intention to authenticate a writing or record, regardless of being witnessed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
- Supplies: means the supplies necessary to administer the prescription drugs donated pursuant to this part. See Tennessee Code 63-10-502
- written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105