Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes > Wholesale Drug Distributor Licensing Act

• Acquire: when used in connection with a grant of power or property right to any person shall include the purchase, grant, gift, devise, bequest, and obtaining by eminent domain. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Action: shall include any proceeding in any court of this state. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Action shall: include any proceeding in any court of this state. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Attorney: shall mean attorney at law. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Blood: means whole blood collected from a single donor and processed either for transfusion or further manufacturing. See Nebraska Statutes 71-7429
• Board: means the Board of Pharmacy. See Nebraska Statutes 71-7431
• Chain pharmacy warehouse: means a facility utilized as a central warehouse for intracompany sales or transfers of prescription drugs or devices by two or more pharmacies operating under common ownership or common control. See Nebraska Statutes 71-7432
• Common control: means that the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a person or an organization by ownership of stock or voting rights, by contract, or otherwise is held by the same person or persons. See Nebraska Statutes 71-7433
• Company: shall include any corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint-stock company, joint venture, or association. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
• Department: means the Department of Health and Human Services. See Nebraska Statutes 71-7434
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Drug sample: means a unit of a prescription drug intended to promote the sale of the drug and not intended to be sold. See Nebraska Statutes 71-7435
• Emergency medical reasons: means the alleviation of a temporary shortage by transfers of prescription drugs between any of the following: (a) Holders of pharmacy licenses, (b) health care practitioner facilities as defined in section 71-414, (c) hospitals as defined in section 71-419, and (d) emergency medical services as defined in section 38-1207. See Nebraska Statutes 71-7436
• Emergency medical reasons does not: include regular and systematic sales (a) of prescription drugs to emergency medical services as defined in section 38-1207 or (b) to practitioners as defined in section 38-2838 of prescription drugs that will be used for routine office procedures. See Nebraska Statutes 71-7436
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• 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.
• Ex officio: Literally, by virtue of one's office.
• Facility: means a physical structure utilized by a wholesale drug distributor for the storage, handling, or repackaging of prescription drugs or the offering of prescription drugs for sale. See Nebraska Statutes 71-7437
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• 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.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Manufacturer: means any entity engaged in manufacturing, preparing, propagating, processing, packaging, repackaging, or labeling a prescription drug. See Nebraska Statutes 71-7438
• Month: shall mean calendar month. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Normal distribution chain: includes transfers of a prescription drug or co-licensed product:

  (a) From a manufacturer or co-licensee to a wholesale drug distributor, to a pharmacy, and then to a patient or a patient's agent. See Nebraska Statutes 71-7439

• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Pedigree: means a written or electronic documentation of every transfer of a prescription drug as provided in sections 71-7455 and 71-7456. See Nebraska Statutes 71-7440
• Person: shall include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Prescription drug: means any human drug required by federal law or regulation to be dispensed only by prescription, including finished dosage forms and active ingredients subject to section 503(b) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as such section existed on August 1, 2006. See Nebraska Statutes 71-7441
• Process: shall mean a summons, subpoena, or notice to appear issued out of a court in the course of judicial proceedings. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Purchase: shall include taking by sale, discount, negotiation, or any other transaction for value creating an interest in property except liens. See Nebraska Statutes 77-122
• Repackage: means repackaging or otherwise changing the container, wrapper, or labeling of a prescription drug to facilitate the wholesale distribution of such drug. See Nebraska Statutes 71-7442
• Repackager: means a person who repackages. See Nebraska Statutes 71-7443
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• State: when applied to different states of the United States shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories organized by Congress. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Sworn: shall include affirmed in all cases in which an affirmation may be substituted for an oath. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• United States: shall include territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
• Wholesale drug distribution: means the distribution of prescription drugs to a person other than a consumer or patient. See Nebraska Statutes 71-7444
• Wholesale drug distributor: means any person or entity engaged in wholesale drug distribution in this state, including manufacturers, repackagers, own-label distributors, jobbers, private-label distributors, brokers, warehouses including manufacturer and distributor warehouses, chain pharmacy warehouses, and wholesale drug warehouses, wholesale medical gas distributors, independent wholesale drug traders, and retail pharmacies that engage in wholesale drug distribution in this state. See Nebraska Statutes 71-7445
• Wholesale drug distributor does not: include a common carrier or other person or entity hired solely to transport prescription drugs if the common carrier, person, or entity does not store, warehouse, or take legal ownership of such drugs. See Nebraska Statutes 71-7445
• Wholesale medical gas distributor: means any person engaged in the wholesale drug distribution of medical gases provided to suppliers or other entities licensed or otherwise authorized to use, administer, or distribute such gases. See Nebraska Statutes 71-7446
• Year: shall mean calendar year. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801