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Terms Used In Texas Health and Safety Code 486.0143

  • Real-time electronic logging system: means a system intended to be used by law enforcement agencies and pharmacies or other business establishments that:
    (A) is installed, operated, and maintained free of any one-time or recurring charge to the business establishment or to the state;
    (B) is able to communicate in real time with similar systems operated in other states and similar systems containing information submitted by more than one state;
    (C) complies with the security policy of the Criminal Justice Information Services division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation;
    (D) complies with information exchange standards adopted by the National Information Exchange Model;
    (E) uses a mechanism to prevent the completion of a sale of a product containing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or norpseudoephedrine that would violate state or federal law regarding the purchase of a product containing those substances; and
    (F) is equipped with an override of the mechanism described in Paragraph (E) that:
    (i) may be activated by an employee of a business establishment; and
    (ii) creates a record of each activation of the override. See Texas Health and Safety Code 486.001
  • Written: includes any representation of words, letters, symbols, or figures. See Texas Government Code 311.005

If a business establishment that engages in over-the-counter sales of a product containing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or norpseudoephedrine experiences a mechanical or electronic failure of the real-time electronic logging system, the business shall:
(1) maintain a written record or an electronic record made by any means that satisfies the requirements of § 486.014(a)(2); and
(2) enter the information in the real-time electronic logging system as soon as practicable after the system becomes operational.