Vermont Statutes Title 18 Sec. 4206
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 18 Sec. 4206
- Deliver: means the actual, constructive, or attempted transfer or prescription of a regulated drug, whether or not there exists an agency relationship. See
- Department: means the Department of Health. See
- Dispense: includes distribute, leave with, give away, dispose of, or deliver. See
- 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.
- License: means a license to practice their profession issued to one of those persons listed in subdivisions (1)(A) through (F) of this section by the person's respective professional board under the applicable laws of this State, or a license issued by the Department of Health under section 4206 of this title to a person not subject to the jurisdiction of any such professional board. See
- Manufacturer: means a person authorized by law to manufacture, bottle, or pack drugs in this State and who has a license issued to the person under this chapter to compound, mix, cultivate, produce, or prepare regulated drugs, but does not include a pharmacy that compounds such drugs to be sold or dispensed on prescriptions at retail. See
- Person: includes an individual, partnership, corporation, association, trust, or other institution or entity. See
- Pharmacist: means any person authorized by law to practice pharmacy in this State; but nothing in this chapter shall be construed as conferring on a person any authority, right, or privilege that is not granted to him or her by the pharmacy laws of his or her state. See
- Pharmacy: means any place registered as such by the Board of Pharmacy in which drugs, prescriptions, or poisons are possessed for the purpose of compounding, dispensing, or retailing, or in which drugs, prescriptions, or poisons are compounded, dispensed, or retailed, or in which such drugs, prescriptions, or poisons are by advertising or otherwise offered for sale at retail and which has a license issued to it under this chapter authorizing the retail dealing of regulated drugs. See
- Prescribe: means an order for a patient made or given by a practitioner. See
- Prescription: means an order for a regulated drug made by a physician, physician assistant, advanced practice registered nurse, dentist, or veterinarian licensed under this chapter to prescribe such a drug which shall be in writing except as otherwise specified in this subdivision. See
- Prescription drug: means any human drug required by federal law or regulation to be dispensed only by a prescription, including finished dosage forms and active ingredients subject to Section 503(b) of the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. See
- Professional board: means :
- Regulated drug: means :
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
- Ultimate user: means a patient who uses a prescription drug. See
- Wholesaler: means a person authorized by law, when so required, to sell at wholesale drugs in this State and further has a license issued to the person under this chapter to supply others than consumers with drugs or preparations containing a regulated drug that the person has not produced or prepared. See
§ 4206. Licenses
(a) No person shall manufacture, compound, mix, cultivate, grow, or by any other process produce, prepare, prescribe, dispense, or compound any regulated drug, and no person as a wholesaler, manufacturer, pharmacist, or pharmacy shall possess or supply the same, without having first obtained a license from the respective professional board having jurisdiction over that person as so designated in subdivision 4201(1) of this title, or, in the event no professional board has such jurisdiction over a person, from the Department of Health under terms adopted by the Commissioner corresponding to those respecting professional licenses.
(b) The sales of regulated drugs by manufacturers or wholesalers to persons in this State are restricted to those persons qualified by law to possess the same in connection with a business or profession defined in this chapter. Such sales shall be made only to those persons presenting to the vendor or his or her representative proof in writing that the vendee is authorized under this chapter to possess, use, dispense, sell, compound, or administer that regulated drug.
(c) The ultimate user of a prescription drug who has lawfully obtained such prescription drug or other persons authorized by federal law may deliver, without being registered pursuant to 26 V.S.A. § 2061, the prescription drug to another person for the purpose of disposal of the prescription drug if the person receiving the prescription drug for purposes of disposal is authorized under a state or federal law or regulation to engage in such activity. (Added 1967, No. 343 (Adj. Sess.), § 6, eff. March 23, 1968; amended 2011, No. 27, § 2; 2023, No. 53, § 104, eff. June 8, 2023.)