ARTICLE 3. Scope of Practice and Exemptions

Article 3 added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 890, Sec. 3.

§§ 4050–4069 · 32 sections

§ 4050 (a) For the purposes of this section, “state agency” includes every state office, officer, department, division, bureau, board, authority, and commission. (b)…
§ 4051 (a) For the purposes of this section, “accepted standard of care” means the degree of care a prudent and reasonable pharmacist licensed pursuant to this…
§ 4052 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a pharmacist may do all of the following: (1) Furnish a reasonable quantity of compounded drug product to a prescriber for…
§ 4052.04 (a) In addition to the authority provided in Section 4052, a pharmacist may furnish COVID-19 oral therapeutics following a positive test for SARS-CoV-2, the…
§ 4052.05 A pharmacist may independently initiate and administer an immunization that, on January 1, 2025, had in effect a recommendation from the Advisory Committee on…
§ 4052.1 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a pharmacist may perform the following procedures or functions in a licensed health care facility in accordance…
§ 4052.2 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a pharmacist may perform the following procedures or functions as part of the care provided by a health care facility, a…
§ 4052.4 (a) Notwithstanding Section 2038 or any other provision of law, a pharmacist may perform skin puncture in the course of performing routine patient assessment…
§ 4052.5 (a) In addition to the authority allowed under Section 4073, a pharmacist filling a prescription order for a drug product may select a different form of…
§ 4052.6 (a) A pharmacist recognized by the board as an advanced pharmacist practitioner may do all of the following: (1) Perform patient assessments. (2) Order and…
§ 4052.10 (a) A pharmacist may dispense a Schedule II controlled substance, as listed in Section 11055 of the Health and Safety Code, as a partial fill if requested by…
§ 4053 (a) Notwithstanding Section 4051, the board may issue a license as a designated representative to provide sufficient and qualified supervision in a wholesaler…
§ 4053.1 (a) Notwithstanding Section 4051, the board may issue a license to a qualified individual as a designated representative-3PL to provide sufficient and…
§ 4053.2 (a) Notwithstanding Sections 4051 and 4053, the board may issue a designated representative-reverse distributor license to a qualified individual who shall…
§ 4054 Section 4051 shall not apply to a manufacturer or wholesaler that provides dialysis drugs and devices directly to patients.
§ 4055 Nothing in this chapter, nor any other law, shall prohibit the sale of devices to clinics that have been issued a clinic license pursuant to Article 13…
§ 4056 (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, a licensed hospital that contains 100 beds or fewer, and that does not employ a full-time pharmacist, may…
§ 4057 (a) Except as provided in Section 4006, subdivision (d) of Section 4081, Section 4240, subdivisions (t) and (u) of Section 4301, and Section 4342, this chapter…
§ 4058 Every person holding a license issued under this chapter to operate a premises shall display the original license and current renewal license upon the licensed…
§ 4059 (a) A person may not furnish any dangerous drug, except upon the prescription of a physician, dentist, podiatrist, optometrist, veterinarian, or naturopathic…
§ 4059.5 (a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, dangerous drugs or dangerous devices may only be ordered by an entity licensed by the board and shall be…
§ 4060 A person shall not possess any controlled substance, except that furnished to a person upon the prescription of a physician, dentist, podiatrist, optometrist,…
§ 4061 (a) No manufacturer’s sales representative shall distribute any dangerous drug or dangerous device as a complimentary sample without the written request of a…
§ 4062 (a) Notwithstanding Section 4059 or any other law, a pharmacist or a clinic licensed and acting under Section 4180 may, in good faith, furnish a dangerous drug…
§ 4063 No prescription for any dangerous drug or dangerous device may be refilled except upon authorization of the prescriber. The authorization may be given orally…
§ 4064 (a) A prescription for a dangerous drug or dangerous device may be refilled without the prescriber’s authorization if the prescriber is unavailable to…
§ 4064.5 (a) A pharmacist may dispense not more than a 90-day supply of a dangerous drug other than a controlled substance pursuant to a valid prescription that…
§ 4065 (a) “Injection card system,” as used in this section, means a system that enables a facility to authorize an outpatient to receive injections of controlled…
§ 4066 (a) Notwithstanding Section 4059, a wholesaler or pharmacy may furnish dangerous drugs to the master or first officer of an ocean vessel, pursuant to a written…
§ 4067 (a) No person or entity shall dispense or furnish, or cause to be dispensed or furnished, dangerous drugs or dangerous devices, as defined in Section 4022, on…
§ 4068 (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, except as provided in subdivision (b), a prescriber may dispense a dangerous drug, including a controlled…
§ 4069 A pharmacist who dispenses or furnishes a dangerous drug, as defined in Section 4022, pursuant to a veterinary prescription shall include, as part of the…