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Texas Health & Safety Code - Chapter 481 Texas Controlled Substances Act

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  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.001 - Short Title
    This chapter may be cited as the Texas Controlled Substances Act. Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.002 - Definitions
    In this chapter: (1) "Administer" means to directly apply a controlled substance by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or other means to the body of a patient ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.003 - Rules
    (a) The director may adopt rules to administer and enforce this chapter. (b) The director by rule shall prohibit a person in this state, including ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.031 - Nomenclature
    Controlled substances listed in Schedules I through V and Penalty Groups 1 through 4 are included by whatever official, common, usual, chemical, or trade name ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.032 - Schedules
    (a) The commissioner shall establish and modify the following schedules of controlled substances under this subchapter: Schedule I, Schedule II, Schedule III, Schedule IV, and ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.033 - Exclusion From Schedules And Application Of Act
    (a) A nonnarcotic substance is excluded from Schedules I through V if the substance may lawfully be sold over the counter without a prescription, under ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.034 - Establishment And Modification Of Schedules By Commissioner
    (a) The commissioner shall annually establish the schedules of controlled substances. These annual schedules shall include the complete list of all controlled substances from the ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.035 - Findings
    (a) The commissioner shall place a substance in Schedule I if the commissioner finds that the substance: (1) has a high potential for abuse; and ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.036 - Publication Of Schedules
    (a) The commissioner shall publish the schedules by filing a certified copy of the schedules with the secretary of state for publication in the Texas ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.061 - Registration Required
    (a) Except as otherwise provided by this chapter, a person who is not a registrant may not manufacture, distribute, prescribe, possess, analyze, or dispense a ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.062 - Exemptions
    (a) The following persons are not required to register and may possess a controlled substance under this chapter: (1) an agent or employee of a ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.0621 - Exceptions
    (a) This subchapter does not apply to an educational or research program of a school district or a public or private institution of higher education. ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.063 - Registration Application; Issuance Or Denial
    (a) The director may refuse to issue a registration to a person to manufacture, distribute, analyze, or conduct research with a controlled substance if the ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.064 - Registration Fees
    (a) The director may charge a nonrefundable fee of not more than $25 before processing an application for annual registration. The director by rule shall ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.065 - Authorization For Certain Activities
    (a) The director may authorize the possession, distribution, planting, and cultivation of controlled substances by a person engaged in research, training animals to detect controlled ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.066 - Voluntary Surrender, Cancellation, Suspension, Probation, Or Revocation Of Registration
    (a) The director may accept a voluntary surrender of a registration. (b) The director may cancel, suspend, or revoke a registration, place on probation a ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.067 - Records
    (a) A person who is registered to manufacture, distribute, analyze, or dispense a controlled substance shall keep records and maintain inventories in compliance with recordkeeping ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.068 - Confidentiality
    (a) The director may authorize a person engaged in research on the use and effects of a controlled substance to withhold the names and other ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.069 - Order Forms
    A registrant may not distribute or order a controlled substance listed in Schedule I or II to or from another registrant except under an order ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.070 - Administering Or Dispensing Schedule I Controlled Substance
    Except as permitted by this chapter, a person may not administer or dispense a controlled substance listed in Schedule I. Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.071 - Medical Purpose Required Before Prescribing, Dispensing, Delivering, Or Administering Controlled Substance
    (a) A practitioner defined by Section 481.002(39)(A) may not prescribe, dispense, deliver, or administer a controlled substance or cause a controlled substance to be administered ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.072 - Medical Purpose Required Before Distributing Or Dispensing Schedule V Controlled Substance
    A person may not distribute or dispense a controlled substance listed in Schedule V except for a valid medical purpose. Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.073 - Communication Of Prescriptions By Agent
    (a) Only a practitioner defined by Section 481.002(39)(A) and an agent designated in writing by the practitioner in accordance with rules adopted by the department ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.074 - Prescriptions
    (a) A pharmacist may not: (1) dispense or deliver a controlled substance or cause a controlled substance to be dispensed or delivered under the pharmacist's ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.075 - Official Prescription Program
    (a) A practitioner who prescribes a controlled substance listed in Schedule II shall, except as provided by rule adopted under Section 481.0761, record the prescription ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.076 - Official Prescription Information
    (a) The director may not permit any person to have access to information submitted to the director under Section 481.075 except: (1) an investigator for ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.0761 - Rules; Authority To Contract
    (a) The director shall consult with the Texas State Board of Pharmacy and by rule establish and revise as necessary a standardized database format that ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.077 - Chemical Precursor Records And Reports
    (a) Except as provided by Subsection (l), a person who sells, transfers, or otherwise furnishes a chemical precursor to another person shall make an accurate ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.0771 - Records And Reports On Pseudoephedrine
    (a) A wholesaler who sells, transfers, or otherwise furnishes a product containing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or norpseudoephedrine to a retailer shall: (1) before delivering the product, ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.078 - Chemical Precursor Transfer Permit
    (a) A person must obtain a chemical precursor transfer permit from the department to be eligible: (1) to sell, transfer, or otherwise furnish a chemical ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.080 - Chemical Laboratory Apparatus Record-Keeping Requirements And Penalties
    (a) A manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer, or other person who sells, transfers, or otherwise furnishes a chemical laboratory apparatus shall make an accurate and legible record ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.081 - Chemical Laboratory Apparatus Transfer Permit
    (a) A person must obtain a chemical laboratory apparatus transfer permit from the department to be eligible: (1) to sell, transfer, or otherwise furnish an ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.101 - Criminal Classification
    For the purpose of establishing criminal penalties for violations of this chapter, controlled substances, including a material, compound, mixture, or preparation containing the controlled substance, ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.102 - Penalty Group 1
    Penalty Group 1 consists of: (1) the following opiates, including their isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and salts of isomers, esters, and ethers, unless specifically excepted, ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.1021 - Penalty Group 1-A
    Penalty Group 1-A consists of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), including its salts, isomers, and salts of isomers. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 745, ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.103 - Penalty Group 2
    (a) Penalty Group 2 consists of: (1) any quantity of the following hallucinogenic substances, their salts, isomers, and salts of isomers, unless specifically excepted, if ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.104 - Penalty Group 3
    (a) Penalty Group 3 consists of: (1) a material, compound, mixture, or preparation that contains any quantity of the following substances having a potential for ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.105 - Penalty Group 4
    Penalty Group 4 consists of: (1) a compound, mixture, or preparation containing limited quantities of any of the following narcotic drugs that includes one or ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.106 - Classification Of Controlled Substance Analogue
    For the purposes of the prosecution of an offense under this subchapter involving the manufacture, delivery, or possession of a controlled substance, Penalty Groups 1, ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.108 - Preparatory Offenses
    Title 4, Penal Code, applies to an offense under this chapter. Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.111 - Exemptions
    (a) The provisions of this chapter relating to the possession and distribution of peyote do not apply to the use of peyote by a member ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.112 - Offense: Manufacture Or Delivery Of Substance In Penalty Group 1
    (a) Except as authorized by this chapter, a person commits an offense if the person knowingly manufactures, delivers, or possesses with intent to deliver a ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.1121 - Offense: Manufacture Or Delivery Of Substance In Penalty Group 1-A
    (a) Except as provided by this chapter, a person commits an offense if the person knowingly manufactures, delivers, or possesses with intent to deliver a ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.113 - Offense: Manufacture Or Delivery Of Substance In Penalty Group 2
    (a) Except as authorized by this chapter, a person commits an offense if the person knowingly manufactures, delivers, or possesses with intent to deliver a ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.114 - Offense: Manufacture Or Delivery Of Substance In Penalty Group 3 Or 4
    (a) Except as authorized by this chapter, a person commits an offense if the person knowingly manufactures, delivers, or possesses with intent to deliver a ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.115 - Offense: Possession Of Substance In Penalty Group 1
    (a) Except as authorized by this chapter, a person commits an offense if the person knowingly or intentionally possesses a controlled substance listed in Penalty ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.1151 - Offense: Possession Of Substance In Penalty Group 1-A
    (a) Except as provided by this chapter, a person commits an offense if the person knowingly possesses a controlled substance listed in Penalty Group 1-A. ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.116 - Offense: Possession Of Substance In Penalty Group 2
    (a) Except as authorized by this chapter, a person commits an offense if the person knowingly or intentionally possesses a controlled substance listed in Penalty ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.117 - Offense: Possession Of Substance In Penalty Group 3
    (a) Except as authorized by this chapter, a person commits an offense if the person knowingly or intentionally possesses a controlled substance listed in Penalty ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.118 - Offense: Possession Of Substance In Penalty Group 4
    (a) Except as authorized by this chapter, a person commits an offense if the person knowingly or intentionally possesses a controlled substance listed in Penalty ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.119 - Offense: Manufacture, Delivery, Or Possession Of Miscellaneous Substances
    (a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly manufactures, delivers, or possesses with intent to deliver a controlled substance listed in a schedule ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.120 - Offense: Delivery Of Marihuana
    (a) Except as authorized by this chapter, a person commits an offense if the person knowingly or intentionally delivers marihuana. (b) An offense under Subsection ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.121 - Offense: Possession Of Marihuana
    (a) Except as authorized by this chapter, a person commits an offense if the person knowingly or intentionally possesses a usable quantity of marihuana. (b) ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.122 - Offense: Delivery Of Controlled Substance Or Marihuana To Child
    (a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly delivers a controlled substance listed in Penalty Group 1, 1-A, 2, or 3 or knowingly ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.123 - Defense To Prosecution For Offense Involving Controlled Substance Analogue
    (a) It is an affirmative defense to the prosecution of an offense under this subchapter involving the manufacture, delivery, or possession of a controlled substance ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.124 - Offense: Possession Or Transport Of Certain Chemicals With Intent To Manufacture Controlled Substance
    (a) A person commits an offense if, with intent to unlawfully manufacture a controlled substance, the person possesses or transports: (1) anhydrous ammonia; (2) an ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.1245 - Offense: Possession Or Transport Of Anhydrous Ammonia; Use Of Or Tampering With Equipment
    (a) A person commits an offense if the person: (1) possesses or transports anhydrous ammonia in a container or receptacle that is not designed or ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.125 - Offense: Possession Or Delivery Of Drug Paraphernalia
    (a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly or intentionally uses or possesses with intent to use drug paraphernalia to plant, propagate, cultivate, ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.126 - Offense: Illegal Barter, Expenditure, Or Investment
    (a) A person commits an offense if the person: (1) barters property or expends funds the person knows are derived from the commission of an ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.127 - Offense: Unauthorized Disclosure Of Information
    (a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly gives, permits, or obtains unauthorized access to information submitted to the director under Section 481.075. ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.128 - Offense And Civil Penalty: Commercial Matters
    (a) A registrant or dispenser commits an offense if the registrant or dispenser knowingly: (1) distributes, delivers, administers, or dispenses a controlled substance in violation ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.129 - Offense: Fraud
    (a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly: (1) distributes as a registrant or dispenser a controlled substance listed in Schedule I or ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.130 - Penalties Under Other Law
    A penalty imposed for an offense under this chapter is in addition to any civil or administrative penalty or other sanction imposed by law. Acts ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.131 - Offense: Diversion Of Controlled Substance Property Or Plant
    (a) A person commits an offense if the person intentionally or knowingly: (1) converts to the person's own use or benefit a controlled substance property ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.132 - Multiple Prosecutions
    (a) In this section, "criminal episode" means the commission of two or more offenses under this chapter under the following circumstances: (1) the offenses are ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.133 - Offense: Falsification Of Drug Test Results
    (a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly or intentionally uses or possesses with intent to use any substance or device designed to ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.134 - Drug-Free Zones
    (a) In this section: (1) "Minor" means a person who is younger than 18 years of age. (2) "Institution of higher education" means any public ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.135 - Maps As Evidence Of Location Or Area
    (a) In a prosecution under Section 481.134, a map produced or reproduced by a municipal or county engineer for the purpose of showing the location ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.136 - Offense: Unlawful Transfer Or Receipt Of Chemical Precursor
    (a) A person commits an offense if the person sells, transfers, furnishes, or receives a chemical precursor subject to Section 481.077(a) and the person: (1) ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.137 - Offense: Transfer Of Precursor Substance For Unlawful Manufacture
    (a) A person commits an offense if the person sells, transfers, or otherwise furnishes a chemical precursor subject to Section 481.077(a) with the knowledge or ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.138 - Offense: Unlawful Transfer Or Receipt Of Chemical Laboratory Apparatus
    (a) A person commits an offense if the person sells, transfers, furnishes, or receives a chemical laboratory apparatus subject to Section 481.080(a) and the person: ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.139 - Offense: Transfer Of Chemical Laboratory Apparatus For Unlawful Manufacture
    (a) A person commits an offense if the person sells, transfers, or otherwise furnishes a chemical laboratory apparatus with the knowledge or intent that the ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.140 - Use Of Child In Commission Of Offense
    (a) If it is shown at the punishment phase of the trial of an offense otherwise punishable as a state jail felony, felony of the ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.141 - Manufacture Or Delivery Of Controlled Substance Causing Death Or Serious Bodily Injury
    (a) If at the guilt or innocence phase of the trial of an offense described by Subsection (b), the judge or jury, whichever is the ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.151 - Definitions
    In this subchapter: (1) "Controlled substance property" means a controlled substance, mixture containing a controlled substance, controlled substance analogue, counterfeit controlled substance, drug paraphernalia, chemical ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.152 - Seizure And Summary Forfeiture And Destruction Of Controlled Substance Plants
    (a) Controlled substance plants are subject to seizure and summary forfeiture to the state if: (1) the plants have been planted, cultivated, or harvested in ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.153 - Seizure And Summary Forfeiture And Destruction Of Controlled Substance Property
    (a) Controlled substance property that is manufactured, delivered, or possessed in violation of this chapter is subject to seizure and summary forfeiture to the state. ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.154 - Rules
    (a) The director may adopt reasonable rules and procedures, not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, concerning: (1) summary forfeiture and destruction of controlled ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.159 - Disposition Of Controlled Substance Property Or Plant
    (a) If a district court orders the forfeiture of a controlled substance property or plant under Chapter 59, Code of Criminal Procedure, or under this ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.160 - Destruction Of Excess Quantities
    (a) If a controlled substance property or plant is forfeited under this code or under Chapter 59, Code of Criminal Procedure, the law enforcement agency ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.181 - Inspections
    (a) The director may enter controlled premises at any reasonable time and inspect the premises and items described by Subsection (b) in order to inspect, ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.182 - Evidentiary Rules Relating To Offer Of Delivery
    For the purpose of establishing a delivery under this chapter, proof of an offer to sell must be corroborated by: (1) a person other than ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.183 - Evidentiary Rules Relating To Drug Paraphernalia
    (a) In considering whether an item is drug paraphernalia under this chapter, a court or other authority shall consider, in addition to all other logically ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.184 - Burden Of Proof; Liabilities
    (a) The state is not required to negate an exemption or exception provided by this chapter in a complaint, information, indictment, or other pleading or ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.185 - Arrest Reports
    (a) Each law enforcement agency in this state shall file monthly with the director a report of all arrests made for drug offenses and quantities ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.186 - Cooperative Arrangements
    (a) The director shall cooperate with federal and state agencies in discharging the director's responsibilities concerning traffic in controlled substances and in suppressing the abuse ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.201 - Research Program; Review Board
    (a) The Texas Board of Health may establish a controlled substance therapeutic research program for the supervised use of tetrahydrocannabinols for medical and research purposes ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.202 - Review Board Powers And Duties
    (a) The review board shall review research proposals submitted and medical case histories of persons recommended for participation in a research program and determine which ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.203 - Patient Participation
    (a) A person may not be considered for participation as a recipient of tetrahydrocannabinols and their derivatives through a research program unless the person is ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.204 - Acquisition And Distribution Of Controlled Substances
    (a) The Texas Board of Health shall acquire the tetrahydrocannabinols and their derivatives for use in the research program by contracting with the National Institute ...
  • Texas Health & Safety Code Section 481.205 - Rules; Reports
    (a) The Texas Board of Health shall adopt rules necessary for implementing the research program. (b) If the Texas Board of Health establishes a program ...
  • Last modified: August 11, 2007