Terms Used In Vermont Statutes > Title 18 > Chapter 90 - Hearing Aids

• Certificate: means a certificate of approval issued to a hospital, laboratory, or nursing home under section 4207 of this title. See
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Dentist: means a person authorized by law to practice dentistry in this State and who has a license issued to the person under this chapter authorizing him or her to use regulated drugs in connection with his or her professional practice. See
• Department: means the Department of Health. See
• Dispense: includes distribute, leave with, give away, dispose of, or deliver. See
• Federal drug laws: means the laws of the United States relating to one or more of those drugs which are defined in this chapter as regulated drugs. See
• following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
• Health care practitioner: means an individual licensed by the Board of Medical Practice or the Office of Professional Regulation to provide professional health care services in this State. See
• Hospital: means an institution for the care and treatment of the sick and injured licensed as a hospital under chapter 43 of this title and a hospital conducted, maintained, and operated by the United States or the State of Vermont, approved under this chapter as proper to be entrusted with the custody and use of regulated drugs under the direction of a physician or dentist, confirmed by an official written order signed by a person authorized to prescribe such drugs. See
• Laboratory: means a laboratory approved under this chapter as proper to be entrusted with the custody and use of regulated drugs for scientific and medical purposes and for purposes of instruction. 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
• Municipality: shall include a city, town, town school district, incorporated school or fire district or incorporated village, and all other governmental incorporated units. See
• Nurse: means any person authorized by law to practice nursing in this State. See
• Official written order: means an order written on a form prescribed for that purpose by the U. See
• Person: includes an individual, partnership, corporation, association, trust, or other institution or entity. 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
• Physician: means a person authorized by law to practice medicine in this State and who has a license issued to the person under this chapter authorizing him or her to use regulated drugs in connection with his or her professional practice. See
• Prescribe: means an order for a patient made or given by a practitioner. See
• 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
• Stem cell and stem cell-related products: means any articles that contain or consist, or purport to contain or consist, of one or more of the following, when intended for implantation, transplantation, infusion, or transfer into a human recipient and when intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of any disease or condition based on or in connection with a proven or purported attribute of stem cells:

• Veterinarian: means a person authorized by law to practice veterinary medicine in this State and who has a license issued to the person under this chapter authorizing him or her to use regulated drugs in connection with his or her professional practice. 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