Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3719 - Controlled Substances

• Section 3719.01 - Controlled Substances Definitions.
  As used in this chapter: (A) "Administer" means the direct application of a drug, whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other means to...
• Section 3719.011 - Controlled Substances Definitions For Use In Revised Code.
  As used in the Revised Code: (A) "Drug of abuse" means any controlled substance as defined in section 3719.01 of the Revised Code, any...
• Section 3719.012 - Minor May Give Consent To Diagnosis Or Treatment Of Condition Caused By Drug Or Alcohol Abuse.
  (A) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a minor may give consent for the diagnosis or treatment by a physician licensed to practice in...
• Section 3719.013 - Controlled Substance Analog.
  Except as otherwise provided in section 2925.03 or 2925.11 of the Revised Code, a controlled substance analog, to the extent intended for human consumption,...
• Section 3719.02 - License To Manufacture Controlled Substances - Fee.
  A person may cultivate, grow, or by other process produce or manufacture, and a person on land owned, occupied, or controlled by such person...
• Section 3719.021 - License As Wholesaler Of Controlled Substances - Fee.
  Persons other than a licensed manufacturer, pharmacist, or owner of a pharmacy who possess for sale, sell, or dispense controlled substances at wholesale shall...
• Section 3719.03 - Qualifications Of Applicant For License.
  No license shall be issued under section 3719.02 or 3719.021 of the Revised Code unless and until the applicant therefor has furnished proof satisfactory...
• Section 3719.031 - Suspension Of Wholesaler's License Without Hearing.
  If the state board of pharmacy determines that there is clear and convincing evidence that the method used by a wholesaler of controlled substances...
• Section 3719.04 - Sale Of Controlled Substances By Manufacturer Or Wholesaler.
  (A) A licensed manufacturer or wholesaler of controlled substances may sell at wholesale controlled substances to any of the following persons and subject to...
• Section 3719.05 - Pharmacist May Dispense Controlled Substances - Prescriptions - Sale Of Stock.
  (A) A pharmacist may dispense controlled substances to any person upon a prescription issued in accordance with section 3719.06 of the Revised Code. When...
• Section 3719.06 - Authority Of Licensed Health Professional.
  (A) (1) A licensed health professional authorized to prescribe drugs, if acting in the course of professional practice, in accordance with the laws regulating...
• Section 3719.061 - Prescription Of Opioids To Minors.
  (A) (1) As used in this section: (a) "Another adult authorized to consent to the minor's medical treatment" means an adult to whom a...
• Section 3719.07 - Record Of All Controlled Substances Received, Administered, Dispensed, Or Used.
  (A) As used in this section, "description" means the dosage form, strength, and quantity, and the brand name, if any, or the generic name,...
• Section 3719.08 - Label Required.
  (A) Whenever a manufacturer sells a controlled substance, and whenever a wholesaler sells a controlled substance in a package the wholesaler has prepared, the...
• Section 3719.09 - Authorized Possession Of Controlled Substances.
  Possession or control of controlled substances is authorized in the following instances and subject to the following conditions: (A) Possession of controlled substances in...
• Section 3719.10 - Nuisance.
  Premises or real estate, including vacant land, on which a felony violation of Chapter 2925. or 3719. of the Revised Code occurs constitute a...
• Section 3719.101 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1976
• Section 3719.11 - Controlled Substances Forfeited And Destroyed.
  All controlled substances, the lawful possession of which is not established or the title to which cannot be ascertained, that have come into the...
• Section 3719.111 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1976
• Section 3719.12 - Prosecutor To Report Conviction To Board That Licensed, Certified, Or Registered Person.
  Unless a report has been made pursuant to section 2929.42 of the Revised Code, on the conviction of a manufacturer, wholesaler, terminal distributor of...
• Section 3719.121 - Suspending License, Certificate, Or Registration Of Person Addicted To Or Improperly Distributing Controlled Substances.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in section 4723.28, 4723.35, 4730.25, 4731.22, 4734.39, or 4734.41 of the Revised Code, the license, certificate, or registration of...
• Section 3719.13 - Inspection Of Prescriptions, Orders, Records, And Stock.
  Prescriptions, orders, and records, required by Chapter 3719. of the Revised Code, and stocks of dangerous drugs and controlled substances, shall be open for...
• Section 3719.14 - Exemptions.
  (A) A common carrier or warehouse while engaged in lawfully transporting or storing any controlled substance or an employee of a common carrier or...
• Section 3719.141 - Peace Officer May Sell Controlled Substance In Performance Of Official Duties.
  (A) A peace officer may sell any controlled substance in the performance of the officer's official duties only if either of the following applies:...
• Section 3719.15 - Exceptions.
  This chapter and Chapter 2925. of the Revised Code shall not apply, except as specifically provided otherwise in those chapters, to the following cases:...
• Section 3719.16 - Dispensing Of Excepted Substances.
  No person shall dispense or sell, under the exemptions of section 3719.15 of the Revised Code to any one person, or for the use...
• Section 3719.161 - Prohibition Against Altering Substance To Increase Concentration.
  No person shall alter any controlled substance from the original compounded form by evaporation or other means to increase the concentration of narcotic drug...
• Section 3719.17, 3719.171 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1976
• Section 3719.172 - Possession Or Sale Of Hypodermics.
  (A) Possession of a hypodermic is authorized for the following: (1) A manufacturer or distributor of, or dealer in, hypodermics or medication packaged in...
• Section 3719.18 - Enforcement Officers - Co-operation With Agencies.
  (A) The state board of pharmacy, its officers, agents, inspectors, and representatives, and all officers within the state, and all prosecuting attorneys, shall enforce...
• Section 3719.19 - Persons Not Subject To Prosecution.
  No person shall be prosecuted for a violation of this chapter if the person has been acquitted or convicted under the federal drug abuse...
• Section 3719.20 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1976
• Section 3719.21 - Disposition Of Fines And Forfeited Bail.
  Except as provided in division (C) of section 2923.42, division (B) of section 2923.44, divisions (D)(1), (F), and (H) of section 2925.03, division (D)(1)...
• Section 3719.22 To 3719.26 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1976
• Section 3719.27 - Inspection And Checking Of Files And Records.
  (A) Persons required by Chapter 3719. of the Revised Code to keep files or records shall, upon the written request of an officer or...
• Section 3719.28 - Rules For Administration And Enforcement.
  (A) The state board of pharmacy, pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, shall adopt rules for administration and enforcement of Chapter 3719....
• Section 3719.29 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1976
• Section 3719.30 - Prohibition Against Leaving Or Depositing Dangerous Drug Or Poison On Thoroughfares.
  No person shall leave or deposit dangerous drugs, poisons, or substances containing dangerous drugs or poisons in a common, street, alley, lane, or thoroughfare,...
• Section 3719.31 - Prohibition Against Careless Distribution Of Samples Containing Drug Or Poison.
  No person shall leave, throw, or deposit upon the doorstep or premises owned or occupied by another, or hand, give, or deliver to any...
• Section 3719.32 - Regulating The Sale Of Poisons.
  No person shall knowingly sell or deliver to any person otherwise than in the manner prescribed by laws, or sell or deliver to a...
• Section 3719.33 - Labeling Poisons.
  No person shall sell or deliver to another a substance named in section 3719.32 of the Revised Code without having first learned by due...
• Section 3719.34 - Provisions Inapplicable.
  Sections 3719.32 and 3719.33 of the Revised Code do not apply to substances sold or delivered upon the order or prescription of a person...
• Section 3719.35 - Labeling And Recording Of Delivery Provisions Exceptions.
  It is not necessary to place a poison label upon, nor record the delivery of, any of the following: (A) Preparations containing substances named...
• Section 3719.36 - Board Of Pharmacy To Enforce Poison Laws.
  The state board of pharmacy shall enforce sections 3719.30 to 3719.35 of the Revised Code. If the board has information that any of those...
• Section 3719.40 - Controlled Substances Included In Schedules By Designated Name.
  The controlled substances included or to be included in the schedules in section 3719.41 of the Revised Code are included by whatever official, common,...
• Section 3719.41 - Controlled Substance Schedules.
  Controlled substance schedules I, II, III, IV, and V are hereby established, which schedules include the following, subject to amendment pursuant to section 3719.43...
• Section 3719.42 - State Pharmacy Board To Meet Annually.
  The state board of pharmacy shall meet in Columbus at least once each fiscal year for the purpose of carrying out its duties under...
• Section 3719.43 - Effect Of U. S. Attorney General Addition, Transfer, Or Removal Of Substance From Schedule.
  When pursuant to the federal drug abuse control laws the attorney general of the United States adds a compound, mixture, preparation, or substance to...
• Section 3719.44 - Board Of Pharmacy Authority To Change Schedules.
  (A) Pursuant to this section, and by rule adopted in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the state board of pharmacy may...
• Section 3719.45 To 3719.51 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1976
• Section 3719.61 - Methadone Maintenance Treatment.
  Nothing in the laws dealing with drugs of abuse shall be construed to prohibit treatment of narcotic drug dependent persons by the continuing maintenance...
• Section 3719.70 - Grant Of Immunity Or Sentencing Consideration To Person Providing Information Necessary To Investigation.
  (A) When testimony, information, or other evidence in the possession of a person who uses, possesses, or trafficks in any drug of abuse appears...
• Section 3719.81 - Furnishing Drug Samples.
  (A) As used in this section, "sample drug" has the same meaning as in section 2925.01 of the Revised Code. (B) A person may...
• Section 3719.811 - Sample Drug Furnished To Or By Charitable Pharmacy - Exceptions.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Charitable pharmacy" means a pharmacy that meets all of the following requirements: (a) Holds a terminal distributor...
• Section 3719.812 - Qualified Immunity Of Sample Drug Donors And Recipients.
  The state board of pharmacy; any person that donates a sample drug as permitted under section 3719.811 of the Revised Code; any charitable pharmacy...
• Section 3719.813 - Qualified Immunity Of Sample Drug Manufacturers.
  A drug manufacturer shall not, in the absence of bad faith, be subject to criminal prosecution or liability in tort or other civil action...
• Section 3719.82 - Effect Of Child Support Default On License.
  On receipt of a notice pursuant to section 3123.43 of the Revised Code, the state board of pharmacy shall comply with sections 3123.41 to...
• Section 3719.85 To 3719.87 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 06-20-1984
• Section 3719.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates section 3719.16 or 3719.161 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the fifth degree. If the offender previously...

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