§ 3324. Licenses to engage in research, instructional activities, and chemical analysis relating to controlled substances. 1. No person within this state shall manufacture, obtain, possess, administer or dispense a controlled substance for purposes of scientific research, instruction or chemical analysis without having first obtained a license to do so from the department.

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Terms Used In N.Y. Public Health Law 3324

  • Administer: means the direct application of a controlled substance, whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other means, to the body of a patient or research subject. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Controlled substance: means a substance or substances listed in section thirty-three hundred six of this title. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
  • Department: means the department of health of the state of New York. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
  • Dispense: means to deliver a controlled substance to an ultimate user or research subject by lawful means, including by means of the internet, and includes the packaging, labeling, or compounding necessary to prepare the substance for such delivery. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
  • License: means a written authorization issued by the department or the New York state department of education permitting persons to engage in a specified activity with respect to controlled substances. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
  • Manufacture: means the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, cultivation, conversion or processing of a controlled substance, either directly or indirectly or 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, compounding, packaging or labeling of a controlled substance:

    (a) by a practitioner as an incident to his administering or dispensing of a controlled substance in the course of his professional practice; or

    (b) by a practitioner, or by his authorized agent under his supervision, for the purpose of, or as an incident to, research, teaching, or chemical analysis and not for sale; or

    (c) by a pharmacist as an incident to his dispensing of a controlled substance in the course of his professional practice. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302
  • Person: means individual, institution, corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership or association, or any other legal entity. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3302

2. A license issued under this title shall be valid for two years from the date of issue.

3. The fee for a license under this title shall be forty dollars.

4. Licenses issued under this title shall be effective only for and shall specify:

(a) the name and address of the licensee;

(b) the nature of the project or projects permitted by the license;

(c) the nature of the controlled substance or substances to be used in the project, by name if in schedule I, and by name or schedule or both if in any other schedule;

(d) whether dispensing to human subjects is permitted by the license.

5. Upon application of a person licensed pursuant to this title, a license may be amended to add a further activity or to add further substances or schedules to the project permitted thereunder. The fee for such amendment shall be twenty dollars.