Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 63 > Chapter 10 > Part 5 - Kevin Clauson Drug Donation Act

• Administer: means the direct application of a drug to a patient or research subject by injection, inhalation, ingestion, topical application or by any other means. See Tennessee Code 63-10-204
• Board: means the board of pharmacy. See Tennessee Code 63-10-502
• 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.
• Department: means the department of health. See Tennessee Code 63-10-502
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Manufacturer: means any person, except a pharmacist compounding in the normal course of professional practice, engaged in the commercial production, preparation, propagation, conversion or processing of a drug, either directly or indirectly, by extraction from substances of natural origin or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or both, and includes any packaging or repackaging of a drug or the labeling or relabeling of its container and the promotion and marketing of such drugs or devices. See Tennessee Code 63-10-204
• Medical facility: means :
  (A) A physician's office. See Tennessee Code 63-10-502
• 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
• 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
• Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• 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
• 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
• 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
• written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105