Vermont Statutes Title 18 Sec. 4217
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 18 Sec. 4217
- Department: means the Department of Health. See
- Hospital: means an institution for the care and treatment of the sick and injured licensed as a hospital under chapter 43 of this title and a hospital conducted, maintained, and operated by the United States or the State of Vermont, approved under this chapter as proper to be entrusted with the custody and use of regulated drugs under the direction of a physician or dentist, confirmed by an official written order signed by a person authorized to prescribe such drugs. See
- Person: includes an individual, partnership, corporation, association, trust, or other institution or entity. 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
- Regulated drug: means :
§ 4217. Reports by physicians and hospitals
It shall be the duty of every physician and every hospital to report to the Commissioner of Health, promptly, all cases wherein a person has been or is being treated for the use of, or for problems arising from the use of, regulated drugs. The reports shall include the type of problem being treated, the class of regulated drug that was used, and such further information as is required by rules of the Department of Health as adopted under section 4202 of this title, except that the rules shall not require the listing or other identification of the names of the persons being so treated. (Added 1967, No. 343 (Adj. Sess.), § 17, eff. March 23, 1968; amended 1969, No. 203 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 2017, No. 113 (Adj. Sess.), § 78; 2023, No. 53, § 112, eff. June 8, 2023.)