§ 13711 Establishment
§ 13712 Membership
§ 13713 Qualifications
§ 13714 Appointment
§ 13715-A Terms of office
§ 13716 Organization
§ 13718 Meetings
§ 13720 Rules
§ 13721 Licensure and discipline
§ 13722 Medications, drugs, devices and other materials
§ 13723 Other duties, powers and authority
§ 13724 Fees
§ 13725 Insulin Safety Net Program

Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 32 > Chapter 117 > Subchapter 2 - Maine Board of Pharmacy

  • 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.
  • Automated pharmacy systems: means mechanical systems that perform operations or activities, other than compounding, relative to the storage, packaging, labeling, dispensing or distribution of medications, and systems that collect, control and maintain all transactional information. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Board: means the Maine Board of Pharmacy. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Chain pharmacist: means an individual who is engaged in the practice of pharmacy within a chain; that is, where there is a corporate grouping of 4 or more pharmacies. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Compounding: means the preparation, mixing, assembling, packaging or labeling of a drug or device by a pharmacist:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • delivery: means the actual, constructive or attempted transfer of a drug or device from one person to another, whether or not for a consideration. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Department: means the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Device: means an instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, in vitro reagent or other similar or related article, including any component part or accessory, that is required under federal or state law to be prescribed by a practitioner and dispensed by a pharmacist. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • dispensing: means the preparation and delivery of a prescription drug in a suitable container appropriately labeled for subsequent administration to or use by a patient or other individual entitled to receive the prescription drug pursuant to a lawful order of a practitioner. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Drug: means :
    • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Free clinic: means an incorporated nonprofit health facility that provides health care to people at no charge. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Independent pharmacist: means an individual who is engaged in the practice of pharmacy in an independent pharmacy; that is, where there are fewer than 4 pharmacies under the same ownership. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • 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.
  • Labeling: means the process of preparing and affixing a label to the outside of any drug container, exclusive of the labeling by a manufacturer, packer or distributor of a nonprescription drug or commercially packaged legend drug or device. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Manufacture: means the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, conversion or processing of a device or drug, 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 repacking of the substances or labeling or relabeling of its container, except that manufacture does not include the preparation or compounding of a drug by an individual for personal use or the preparation, compounding, packaging or labeling of a drug:
    • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Manufacturer: means a person engaged in the manufacture of prescription drugs. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Opioid medication: means a controlled substance containing an opioid included in schedule II of 21 United States Code § 812 or Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 1308. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, association or any other legal entity. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Pharmacist: means an individual provider of health care services licensed by this State to engage in the practice of pharmacy. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Pharmacy: means :
    • A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Pharmacy technician: means a person employed by a pharmacy who works in a supportive role to, and under the direct supervision of, a licensed pharmacist. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Practice of pharmacy: means the provision of health care services that include the interpretation and evaluation of prescription drug orders; the compounding, dispensing and labeling of drugs and devices, except labeling by a manufacturer, packer or distributor of nonprescription drugs and commercially packaged legend drugs and devices; the participation in drug selection and drug utilization reviews; the proper and safe storage of drugs and devices and the maintenance of proper records for these drugs and devices; the administration of vaccines licensed by the United States Food and Drug Administration that are recommended by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or successor organization, for administration to adults; the administration to adults by intramuscular and subcutaneous injection of drugs approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration; the performance of collaborative drug therapy management; the responsibility for advising, when necessary or regulated, of therapeutic values, content, hazards and use of drugs and devices; the ordering and dispensing of over-the-counter nicotine replacement products approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration; the prescribing, dispensing and administering of an HIV prevention drug, as defined in section 13786?E, subsection 1, paragraph B, pursuant to a standing order or collaborative practice agreement or to protocols developed by the board; and the offering or performing of those acts, services, operations or transactions necessary in the conduct, operation, management and control of a pharmacy. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Practitioner: means an individual who is licensed, registered or otherwise authorized in the appropriate jurisdiction to prescribe and administer drugs in the course of professional practice. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • United States: includes territories and the District of Columbia. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
  • Wholesaler: means a person who buys prescription drugs for resale and distribution to persons other than consumers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13702-A
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72