Terms Used In Oregon Statutes > Chapter 689 - Pharmacists; Drug Outlets; Drug Sales

• Acquittal:
  1. Judgement that a criminal defendant has not been proved guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
  2. A verdict of "not guilty."
   
• Administer: means the direct application of a drug or device whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other means, to the body of a patient or research subject by:

  (a) A practitioner or the practitioner's authorized agent; or

  (b) The patient or research subject at the direction of the practitioner. See Oregon Statutes 689.005

• Approved continuing pharmacy education program: means those seminars, classes, meetings, workshops and other educational programs on the subject of pharmacy approved by the State Board of Pharmacy. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
• Articles: means articles of incorporation, articles of conversion or articles of merger. See Oregon Statutes 62.015
• Clinical pharmacy agreement: means an agreement between a pharmacist or pharmacy and a health care organization or a physician as defined in ORS § 677. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Continuing pharmacy education unit: means the unit of measurement of credits for approved continuing education courses and programs. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Cooperative: means a cooperative corporation that is subject to the provisions of this chapter. See Oregon Statutes 62.015
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• delivery: means the actual, constructive or attempted transfer of a drug or device other than by administration from one person to another, whether or not for a consideration. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Device: means an instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, in vitro reagent or other similar or related article, including any component part or accessory, which is required under federal or state law to be prescribed by a practitioner and dispensed by a pharmacist. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. ^Source:
• dispensing: means the preparation and delivery of a prescription drug pursuant to a lawful order of a practitioner in a suitable container appropriately labeled for subsequent administration to or use by a patient or other individual entitled to receive the prescription drug. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Distribute: means the delivery of a drug other than by administering or dispensing. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Drug order: means a written order, in a hospital or other inpatient care facility, for an ultimate user of any drug or device issued and signed by a practitioner, or an order transmitted by other means of communication from a practitioner, that is immediately reduced to writing by a pharmacist, licensed nurse or other practitioner. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Drug outlet: means a pharmacy, nursing home, shelter home, convalescent home, extended care facility, drug abuse treatment center, penal institution, hospital, family planning clinic, student health center, retail store, wholesaler, manufacturer, mail-order vendor or other establishment with facilities located within or out of this state that is engaged in dispensing, delivery or distribution of drugs within this state. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Drug room: means a secure and lockable location within an inpatient care facility that does not have a licensed pharmacy. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) ^{Source: OCC}
• electronic transmission: means a communication sent or received through technological apparatuses, including computer terminals or other equipment or mechanisms linked by telephone or microwave relays, or similar apparatus having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic or similar capabilities. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Executive session: A portion of the Senate's daily session in which it considers executive business.
• Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Injectable hormonal contraceptive: means a drug composed of a hormone or a combination of hormones that is approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration to prevent pregnancy and that a health care practitioner administers to the patient by injection. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Institutional drug outlet: means hospitals and inpatient care facilities where medications are dispensed to another health care professional for administration to patients served by the hospitals or facilities. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Intern: means a person who is enrolled in or has completed a course of study at a school or college of pharmacy approved by the board and who is licensed with the board as an intern. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Internship: means a professional experiential program approved by the board under the supervision of a licensed pharmacist registered with the board as a preceptor. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Jurisprudence: The study of law and the structure of the legal system.
• Labeling: means the process of preparing and affixing of a label to any drug container exclusive, however, of the labeling by a manufacturer, packer or distributor of a nonprescription drug or commercially packaged legend drug or device. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• legend drug: means a drug that is:

  (a) Required by federal law, prior to being dispensed or delivered, to be labeled with either of the following statements:

  (A) 'Caution: Federal law prohibits dispensing without prescription'; or

  (B) 'Caution: Federal law restricts this drug to use by or on the order of a licensed veterinarian'; or

  (b) Required by any applicable federal or state law or regulation to be dispensed on prescription only or is restricted to use by practitioners only. See Oregon Statutes 689.005

• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Manufacture: means the production, preparation, propagation, compounding, conversion or processing of a device or a 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 repackaging of the substances or labeling or relabeling of its container, except that this term does not include the preparation or compounding of a drug by an individual for their own use or the preparation, compounding, packaging or labeling of a drug:

  (a) By a practitioner as an incident to administering or dispensing of a drug in the course of professional practice; or

  (b) By a practitioner or by the practitioner's authorization under supervision of the practitioner for the purpose of or as an incident to research, teaching or chemical analysis and not for sale. See Oregon Statutes 689.005

• Manufacturer: means a person engaged in the manufacture of drugs. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Member: means a person that is qualified and accepted for membership in a cooperative. See Oregon Statutes 62.015
• Nonprescription drug outlet: means a business or other establishment that is open to the general public for the sale or nonprofit distribution of nonprescription drugs and is registered under ORS § 689. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Nonprescription drugs: means drugs that may be sold without a prescription and that are prepackaged for use by the consumer and labeled in accordance with the requirements of the statutes and regulations of this state and the federal government. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• 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.
• Person: means an individual, corporation, association, firm, partnership, joint stock company, cooperative or foreign cooperative. See Oregon Statutes 62.015
• Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, association or other legal entity. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Pharmacist: means an individual licensed by this state to engage in the practice of pharmacy or to engage in the practice of clinical pharmacy. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Pharmacy: means a place that meets the requirements of rules of the board, is licensed and approved by the board where the practice of pharmacy may lawfully occur and includes apothecaries, drug stores, dispensaries, hospital outpatient pharmacies, pharmacy departments and prescription laboratories but does not include a place used by a manufacturer or wholesaler. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Pharmacy technician: means a person licensed by the board who assists in the practice of pharmacy pursuant to rules of the board. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Practitioner: means a person licensed and operating within the scope of such license to prescribe, dispense, conduct research with respect to or administer drugs in the course of professional practice or research:

  (a) In this state; or

  (b) In another state or territory of the United States if the person does not reside in Oregon and is registered under the federal Controlled Substances Act. See Oregon Statutes 689.005

• Preceptor: means a pharmacist or a person licensed by the board to supervise the internship training of a licensed intern. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• 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.
• Retail drug outlet: means a place used for the conduct of the retail sale, administering or dispensing or compounding of drugs or chemicals or for the administering or dispensing of prescriptions and licensed by the board as a place where the practice of pharmacy may lawfully occur. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Self-administered hormonal contraceptive: means a drug composed of a hormone or a combination of hormones that is approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration to prevent pregnancy and that the patient to whom the drug is prescribed may administer to oneself. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Third-party logistics provider: means an entity that:

  (a) Provides or coordinates warehousing of, or other logistics services for, a product in interstate commerce on behalf of a manufacturer, wholesale distributor or dispenser of the product; and

  (b) Does not take ownership of, or have responsibility to direct the sale or disposition of, the product. See Oregon Statutes 689.005

• Unit dose: means a sealed single-unit container so designed that the contents are administered to the patient as a single dose, direct from the container. See Oregon Statutes 689.005
• Wholesale distributor drug outlet: means a person, other than a manufacturer, manufacturer's colicensed partner, third-party logistics provider or repackager, as defined in 21 U. See Oregon Statutes 689.005