Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4735 – Investigations; written complaints; grounds for limitation, …
(a) All complaints shall be received and investigated by the Division of Professional Regulation in accordance with § 8735 of Title 29, and the Division of Professional Regulation shall be responsible for issuing a final written report at the conclusion of its investigation.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4735
- Administration: means the Drug Enforcement Administration, United States Department of Justice or its successor agency. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Dispense: means to deliver a controlled substance to an ultimate user or research subject by or pursuant to the lawful order of a practitioner, including the prescribing for a legitimate medical purpose by an individual practitioner in the usual course of the practitioner's professional practice, administering, packaging, labeling or compounding necessary to prepare the substance for that delivery. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
- Distribute: means to deliver other than by administering or dispensing a controlled substance. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
- Division: means the Division of Public Health. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 101
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Manufacture: means the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, conversion or processing of a controlled substance, either directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of natural origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis and includes any packaging or repackaging of the substance or labeling or relabeling of its container except that this term does not include the preparation or compounding of a controlled substance by an individual for the individual's own use or the preparation, compounding, packaging or labeling of a controlled substance:
- Prescribe: means to give an order for medication or other therapy by authorized personnel which is dispensed to or for an ultimate user but does not include an order for medication which is dispensed for immediate administration to the ultimate user. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
- Secretary: means Secretary of the Department of State or the Secretary's designee in paragraph (22) of this section; §§ 4711; 4713; 4715; 4717; 4718(l); 4719; 4720(c); 4721; 4731; 4732; 4733; 4734(a) and (b); 4735 (b), (c) and (d); 4736(a) and (b); 4737; 4738; 4739(b); 4762(e)(2); 4781(1); 4782; 4783(b); 4785; 4786; 4787(b), (c), (d), (e) and 4791(d) of this title. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
- State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any state, district, commonwealth, territory, insular possession thereof and any area subject to the legal authority of the United States of America. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 4701
(b) The Secretary, after due notice and hearing may limit, suspend, fine or revoke the registration of any registrant who:
(1) Has failed to maintain effective controls against diversion of controlled substances into other than legitimate medical, scientific or industrial channels;
(2) Has failed to comply with applicable federal, state or local law;
(3) Has been convicted under any federal or state law relating to any controlled substances;
(4) Has furnished any false or fraudulent material in any application filed under this chapter;
(5) Has had any federal registration to manufacture, distribute, prescribe, dispense or research controlled substances as authorized by federal law suspended or revoked;
(6) Has violated a provision of this chapter, or violated an order or rule of the Secretary related to controlled substances;
(7) Has been disciplined by a professional licensing board in any jurisdiction; or
(8) Has engaged in any conduct the Secretary finds to be relevant and inconsistent with the public interest.
(c) The Secretary may limit revocation or suspension of a registration to particular controlled substances.
(d) The Secretary may fine any registrant in an amount not to exceed $1,000 per violation of this chapter or the rules promulgated hereunder.
(e) If the Secretary suspends or revokes a registration, all controlled substances owned or possessed by the registrant at the time of suspension or the effective date of the revocation order may be placed under seal. No disposition may be made of substances under seal until the time for taking an appeal has elapsed or until all appeals have been concluded unless a court upon application therefore orders the sale of perishable substances and the deposit of the proceeds of the sale with the court. Upon a revocation order becoming final, all controlled substances may be forfeited to the State.
(f) The Secretary shall promptly notify the Administration of all orders suspending or revoking registration and all forfeitures of controlled substances.
16 Del. C. 1953, § ?4735; 58 Del. Laws, c. 424, § ?1; 60 Del. Laws, c. 583, § ?5; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1; 79 Del. Laws, c. 164, § ?1;