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Business and Professions Code § 4323

ARTICLE 20. Prohibitions and Offenses

Current as of September 28, 2026Bus. & Prof. Code, § 4323Official source ↗Ask about this

Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 890, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1997.

Every person who, in order to obtain any drug, falsely represents himself or herself to be a physician or other person who can lawfully prescribe the drug, or falsely represents that he or she is acting on behalf of a person who can lawfully prescribe the drug, in a telephone or electronic communication with a pharmacist, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year.