California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 3 - Scope of Practice and Exemptions

  • Section 4050.
    (a) In recognition of and consistent with the decisions of the appellate courts of this state, the Legislature hereby declares the practice of pharmacy to be...
  • Section 4051.
    (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, it is unlawful for any person to manufacture, compound, furnish, sell, or dispense a dangerous drug or dangerous...
  • Section 4052.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a pharmacist may:(1) Furnish a reasonable quantity of compounded drug product to a prescriber for office use by the prescriber.(2) Transmit a valid...
  • Section 4052.01.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacist may furnish naloxone hydrochloride in accordance with standardized procedures or protocols developed and approved by both the...
  • Section 4052.1.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacist may perform the following procedures or functions in a licensed health care facility in accordance with policies,...
  • Section 4052.2.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacist may perform the following procedures or functions as part of the care provided by a health care...
  • Section 4052.3.
    (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, a pharmacist may furnish self-administered hormonal contraceptives in accordance with standardized procedures or protocols developed and approved by both the board...
  • Section 4052.4.
    Notwithstanding Section 2038 or any other provision of law, a pharmacist may perform skin puncture in the course of performing routine patient assessment procedures or...
  • Section 4052.5.
    (a) In addition to the authority allowed under Section 4073, a pharmacist filling a prescription order for a drug product may select a different form of...
  • Section 4052.6.
    (a) A pharmacist recognized by the board as an advanced practice pharmacist may do all of the following:(1) Perform patient assessments.(2) Order and interpret drug therapy-related tests.(3) Refer patients...
  • Section 4052.7.
    (a) A pharmacy may, at a patient’s request, repackage a drug previously dispensed to the patient or to the patient’s agent pursuant to a prescription.(b) Any pharmacy...
  • Section 4052.8.
    (a) In addition to the authority provided in paragraph (11) of subdivision (a) of Section 4052, a pharmacist may independently initiate and administer vaccines listed on...
  • Section 4052.9.
    (a) A pharmacist may furnish nicotine replacement products approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration for use by prescription only in accordance with standardized procedures...
  • Section 4052.10.a.
    (a) A pharmacist may dispense a Schedule II controlled substance, as listed in Section 11055 of the Health and Safety Code, as a partial fill if...
  • Section 4053.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 4051, the board may issue a license as a designated representative to provide sufficient and qualified supervision in a wholesaler or veterinary food-animal...
  • Section 4053.1.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 4051, the board may issue a license to a qualified individual as a designated representative-3PL to provide sufficient and qualified supervision of a...
  • Section 4053.2.
    (a) Notwithstanding Sections 4051 and 4053, the board may issue a designated representative-reverse distributor license to a qualified individual who shall provide sufficient and qualified supervision...
  • Section 4054.
    Section 4051 shall not apply to a manufacturer or wholesaler that provides dialysis drugs and devices directly to patients.(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 857, Sec....
  • Section 4055.
    Nothing in this chapter, nor any other law, shall prohibit the sale of devices to clinics that have been issued a clinic license pursuant to...
  • Section 4056.
    (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, a licensed hospital that contains 100 beds or fewer, and that does not employ a full-time pharmacist, may purchase...
  • Section 4057.
    (a) Except as provided in Section 4006, subdivision (d) of Section 4081, Section 4240, subdivisions (t) and (u) of Section 4301, and Section 4342, this chapter...
  • Section 4058.
    Every person holding a license issued under this chapter to operate a premises shall display the original license and current renewal license upon the licensed...
  • Section 4059.
    (a) A person may not furnish any dangerous drug, except upon the prescription of a physician, dentist, podiatrist, optometrist, veterinarian, or naturopathic doctor pursuant to Section...
  • Section 4059.5.
    (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, dangerous drugs or dangerous devices may only be ordered by an entity licensed by the board and shall...
  • Section 4060.
    A person shall not possess any controlled substance, except that furnished to a person upon the prescription of a physician, dentist, podiatrist, optometrist, veterinarian, or...
  • Section 4061.
    (a) No manufacturer’s sales representative shall distribute any dangerous drug or dangerous device as a complimentary sample without the written request of a physician, dentist, podiatrist,...
  • Section 4062.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 4059 or any other provision of law, a pharmacist may, in good faith, furnish a dangerous drug or dangerous device in reasonable quantities...
  • Section 4063.
    No prescription for any dangerous drug or dangerous device may be refilled except upon authorization of the prescriber. The authorization may be given orally or...
  • Section 4064.
    (a) A prescription for a dangerous drug or dangerous device may be refilled without the prescriber’s authorization if the prescriber is unavailable to authorize the refill...
  • Section 4064.5.
    (a) A pharmacist may dispense not more than a 90-day supply of a dangerous drug other than a controlled substance pursuant to a valid prescription that...
  • Section 4065.
    (a) “Injection card system,” as used in this section, means a system that enables a facility to authorize an outpatient to receive injections of controlled substances...
  • Section 4066.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 4059, a wholesaler or pharmacy may furnish dangerous drugs to the master or first officer of an ocean vessel, pursuant to a written...
  • Section 4067.
    (a) No person or entity shall dispense or furnish, or cause to be dispensed or furnished, dangerous drugs or dangerous devices, as defined in Section 4022,...
  • Section 4068.
    (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, a prescriber may dispense a dangerous drug, including a controlled substance, to an emergency room patient if all of...

Last modified: October 22, 2018