Tennessee Code 63-10-504 – Acceptance and dispensing of donated prescription drugs and supplies
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Prescription drugs or supplies may be accepted and dispensed under the prescription drug donation repository program in accordance with the following:
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 63-10-504
- Code: includes the Tennessee Code and all amendments and revisions to the code and all additions and supplements to the code. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Dispense: means preparing, packaging, compounding or labeling for delivery and actual delivery of a prescription drug, nonprescription drug or device in the course of professional practice to a patient or the patient's agent, to include a licensed health care practitioner or a health care facility providing services or treatment to the patient or patients, by or pursuant to the lawful order of a prescriber. See Tennessee Code 63-10-204
- Distributor: means a person engaged in the distribution of drugs or devices. See Tennessee Code 63-10-204
- Donor: The person who makes a gift.
- Donor: means any of the following that donates prescription drugs to a repository program approved pursuant to this part:
(A) A person. See Tennessee Code 63-10-502 - 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 - Label: means any written, printed or graphic matter on the immediate container of a drug or device. See Tennessee Code 63-10-204
- Labeling: means the process of affixing all labels and other written, printed or graphic matter:
(A) Upon any article or any of its containers or wrappers. 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
- Prescriber: means an individual authorized by law to prescribe drugs. See Tennessee Code 63-10-204
- 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
- Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
- Repository: means a pharmacy that:
(A) Has a license or permit in good standing with the board. See Tennessee Code 63-10-502 - State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
- Supplies: means the supplies necessary to administer the prescription drugs donated pursuant to this part. See Tennessee Code 63-10-502
- United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105