Vermont Statutes Title 18 Sec. 4215
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 18 Sec. 4215
- Dispense: includes distribute, leave with, give away, dispose of, or deliver. See
- Manufacturer: means a person authorized by law to manufacture, bottle, or pack drugs in this State and who has a license issued to the person under this chapter to compound, mix, cultivate, produce, or prepare regulated drugs, but does not include a pharmacy that compounds such drugs to be sold or dispensed on prescriptions at retail. See
- Official written order: means an order written on a form prescribed for that purpose by the U. See
- Person: includes an individual, partnership, corporation, association, trust, or other institution or entity. See
- Pharmacist: means any person authorized by law to practice pharmacy in this State; but nothing in this chapter shall be construed as conferring on a person any authority, right, or privilege that is not granted to him or her by the pharmacy laws of his or her state. See
- Physician: means a person authorized by law to practice medicine in this State and who has a license issued to the person under this chapter authorizing him or her to use regulated drugs in connection with his or her professional practice. See
- Practitioner: includes a physician, dentist, veterinarian, surgeon, or any other person who may be lawfully entitled under this chapter to distribute, dispense, prescribe, or administer regulated drugs to patients. See
- Prescribe: means an order for a patient made or given by a practitioner. See
- Prescription: means an order for a regulated drug made by a physician, physician assistant, advanced practice registered nurse, dentist, or veterinarian licensed under this chapter to prescribe such a drug which shall be in writing except as otherwise specified in this subdivision. See
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
- Wholesaler: means a person authorized by law, when so required, to sell at wholesale drugs in this State and further has a license issued to the person under this chapter to supply others than consumers with drugs or preparations containing a regulated drug that the person has not produced or prepared. See
§ 4215. Authorized sales by pharmacists
(a) A duly licensed pharmacist, in good faith and in the course of professional practice, may sell and dispense regulated drugs to any person upon a written prescription or oral prescription which is reduced promptly to writing by the pharmacist by an individual authorized by law to prescribe and administer prescription drugs in the course of professional practice. The written prescription shall be dated and signed by the person prescribing or, if an oral prescription, by the pharmacist on the day when written, and bearing the full name and date of birth of the patient for whom the drug is prescribed, and the full name of the person prescribing. If the prescription is for an animal, the prescription shall state the species of animal for which the drug is prescribed and the full name and address of the owner of the animal. A prescription shall not be refilled unless refilling is authorized by the practitioner on the original prescription or by the original oral order.
(b)(1) The pharmacist filling a schedule II prescription shall write the date of filling and the pharmacist’s own signature on the face of the prescription, or if an electronic prescription, shall enter the date of filling and the pharmacist’s name into the electronic record.
(2) Pharmacists shall be subject to the requirements of 21 U.S.C. chapter 13.
(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (1) or (2) of this subsection, a prescription for a schedule II drug written without a future fill date shall not be filled more than 30 days after the date the prescription was issued. A prescription for a schedule II drug written to be filled at a future date shall not be filled more than 90 days after the date the prescription was issued.
(4) A physician who dispenses regulated drugs as part of his or her regular fee or for an additional fee shall be subject to the same requirements as a pharmacist for the purposes of this section.
(c) The legal owner of any stock of regulated drugs, upon discontinuance of dealing in such drugs, shall promptly sell such drugs to a manufacturer, wholesaler, or pharmacist, but only on an official written order. (Added 1967, No. 343 (Adj. Sess.), § 15, eff. March 23, 1968; amended 2007, No. 163 (Adj. Sess.), § 5; 2017, No. 48, § 7.)