California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 4 - Requirements for Prescriptions

• Section 4070.
  (a) Except as provided in Section 4019 and subdivision (b), an oral or an electronic data transmission prescription as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 4040...
• Section 4071.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a prescriber may authorize his or her agent on his or her behalf to orally or electronically transmit a...
• Section 4071.1.
  (a) A prescriber, a prescriber’s authorized agent, or a pharmacist may electronically enter a prescription or an order, as defined in Section 4019, into a pharmacy’s...
• Section 4072.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacist, registered nurse, licensed vocational nurse, licensed psychiatric technician, or other healing arts licentiate, if so authorized by...
• Section 4073.
  (a) A pharmacist filling a prescription order for a drug product prescribed by its trade or brand name may select another drug product with the same...
• Section 4073.5.
  (a) A pharmacist filling a prescription order for a prescribed biological product may select an alternative biological product only if all of the following:(1) The alternative biological...
• Section 4074.
  (a) A pharmacist shall inform a patient orally or in writing of the harmful effects of a drug dispensed by prescription if both of the following...
• Section 4075.
  No prescription for a controlled substance transmitted by means of an oral or electronically transmitted order shall be furnished to any person unknown and unable...
• Section 4076.
  (a) A pharmacist shall not dispense any prescription except in a container that meets the requirements of state and federal law and is correctly labeled with...
• Section 4076.5.
  (a) The board shall promulgate regulations that require, on or before January 1, 2011, a standardized, patient-centered, prescription drug label on all prescription medicine dispensed to...
• Section 4076.6.
  (a) Upon the request of a patient or patient’s representative, a dispenser shall provide translated directions for use, which shall be printed on the prescription container,...
• Section 4077.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), no person shall dispense any dangerous drug upon prescription except in a container correctly labeled with the...
• Section 4078.
  (a) (1) No person shall place a false or misleading label on a prescription.(2) No prescriber shall direct that a prescription be labeled with any information that is...

Last modified: October 22, 2018