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CHAPTER 4. Prescriptions [11150. - 11209.]

Chapter 4 added by Stats. 1972, Ch. 1407.

§§ 11150–11209 · 57 sections

  1. ARTICLE 1. Requirements of Prescriptions §§ 11150–11180 · 46 sections
    • § 11150 No person other than a physician, dentist, podiatrist, or veterinarian, or naturopathic doctor acting pursuant to Section 3640.7 of the Business and…
    • § 11150.2 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, if cannabinoids are excluded from Schedule I of the federal Controlled Substances Act and placed on a schedule of the act…
    • § 11150.3 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, if a substance listed in Schedule I of Section 11054 is excluded from Schedule I of the federal Controlled Substances Act…
    • § 11150.6 Notwithstanding Section 11150.5 or subdivision (a) of Section 11054, methaqualone, its salts, isomers, and salts of its isomers shall be deemed to be…
    • § 11151 A prescription written by an unlicensed person lawfully practicing medicine pursuant to Section 2065 of the Business and Professions Code, shall be filled only…
    • § 11152 No person shall write, issue, fill, compound, or dispense a prescription that does not conform to this division.
    • § 11153 (a) A prescription for a controlled substance shall only be issued for a legitimate medical purpose by an individual practitioner acting in the usual course of…
    • § 11153.5 (a) No wholesaler or manufacturer, or agent or employee of a wholesaler or manufacturer, shall furnish controlled substances for other than legitimate medical…
    • § 11154 (a) Except in the regular practice of his or her profession, no person shall knowingly prescribe, administer, dispense, or furnish a controlled substance to or…
    • § 11155 Any physician, who by court order or order of any state or governmental agency, or who voluntarily surrenders his controlled substance privileges, shall not…
    • § 11156 (a) Except as provided in Section 2241 of the Business and Professions Code, no person shall prescribe for, or administer, or dispense a controlled substance…
    • § 11157 No person shall issue a prescription that is false or fictitious in any respect.
    • § 11158 (a) Except as provided in Section 11159 or in subdivision (b) of this section, no controlled substance classified in Schedule II shall be dispensed without a…
    • § 11158.1 (a) Except when a patient is being treated as set forth in Sections 11159, 11159.2, and 11167.5, and Article 2 (commencing with Section 11215) of Chapter 5,…
    • § 11159 An order for controlled substances for use by a patient in a county or licensed hospital shall be exempt from all requirements of this article, but shall be in…
    • § 11159.1 An order for controlled substances furnished to a patient in a clinic which has a permit issued pursuant to Article 13 (commencing with Section 4180) of…
    • § 11159.2 (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a prescription for a controlled substance for use by a patient who has a terminal illness may be written on a…
    • § 11159.3 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, during a declared local, state, or federal emergency, if the California State Board of Pharmacy issues a notice that the…
    • § 11161 (a) When a practitioner is named in a warrant of arrest or is charged in an accusatory pleading with a felony violation of Section 11153, 11154, 11156, 11157,…
    • § 11161.5 (a) Prescription forms for controlled substance prescriptions shall be obtained from security printers approved by the Department of Justice. (b) The…
    • § 11161.7 (a) When a prescriber’s authority to prescribe controlled substances is restricted by civil, criminal, or administrative action, or by an order of the court…
    • § 11162.1 (a) The prescription forms for controlled substances shall be printed with the following features: (1) A latent, repetitive “void” pattern shall be printed…
    • § 11162.2 (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the uniquely serialized number described in paragraph (15) of subdivision (a) of Section 11162.1 shall not be a required…
    • § 11162.5 (a) Every person who counterfeits a prescription blank purporting to be an official prescription blank prepared and issued pursuant to Section 11161.5, or…
    • § 11162.6 (a) Every person who counterfeits a controlled substance prescription form shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not…
    • § 11164 Except as provided in Section 11167, no person shall prescribe a controlled substance, nor shall any person fill, compound, or dispense a prescription for a…
    • § 11164.1 (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, a prescription for a controlled substance issued by a prescriber in another state for delivery to a patient in another…
    • § 11164.5 (a) Notwithstanding Section 11164, if only recorded and stored electronically, on magnetic media, or in any other computerized form, the pharmacy’s or…
    • § 11165 (a) To assist health care practitioners in their efforts to ensure appropriate prescribing, ordering, administering, furnishing, and dispensing of controlled…
    • § 11165.1 (a) (1) (A) (i) A health care practitioner authorized to prescribe, order, administer, furnish, or dispense Schedule II, Schedule III, Schedule IV, or Schedule…
    • § 11165.2 (a) The Department of Justice may conduct audits of the CURES Prescription Drug Monitoring Program system and its users. (b) The Department of Justice may…
    • § 11165.3 The theft or loss of prescription forms shall be reported immediately by the security printer or affected prescriber to the CURES Prescription Drug Monitoring…
    • § 11165.4 (a) (1) (A) (i) A health care practitioner authorized to prescribe, order, administer, or furnish a controlled substance shall consult the patient activity…
    • § 11165.5 (a) The Department of Justice may seek voluntarily contributed private funds from insurers, health care service plans, qualified manufacturers, and other…
    • § 11165.6 A prescriber shall be allowed to access the CURES database for a list of patients for whom that prescriber is listed as a prescriber in the CURES database.
    • § 11166 No person shall fill a prescription for a controlled substance after six months has elapsed from the date written on the prescription by the prescriber. No…
    • § 11167 Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section 11164, in an emergency where failure to issue a prescription may result in loss of life or intense suffering, an…
    • § 11167.5 (a) An order for a controlled substance classified in Schedule II for a patient of a licensed skilled nursing facility, a licensed intermediate care facility,…
    • § 11170 No person shall prescribe, administer, or furnish a controlled substance for himself.
    • § 11171 No person shall prescribe, administer, or furnish a controlled substance except under the conditions and in the manner provided by this division.
    • § 11172 No person shall antedate or postdate a prescription.
    • § 11173 (a) No person shall obtain or attempt to obtain controlled substances, or procure or attempt to procure the administration of or prescription for controlled…
    • § 11174 No person shall, in connection with the prescribing, furnishing, administering, or dispensing of a controlled substance, give a false name or false address.
    • § 11175 No person shall obtain or possess a prescription that does not comply with this division, nor shall any person obtain a controlled substance by means of a…
    • § 11179 A person who fills a prescription shall keep it on file for at least three years from the date of filling it.
    • § 11180 No person shall obtain or possess a controlled substance obtained by a prescription that does not comply with this division.
  2. ARTICLE 2. Prescriber’s Record §§ 11190–11192 · 3 sections
    • § 11190 (a) Every practitioner, other than a pharmacist, who prescribes or administers a controlled substance classified in Schedule II shall make a record that, as to…
    • § 11191 The record shall be preserved for three years. Every person who violates any provision of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.
    • § 11192 In a prosecution for a violation of Section 11190, proof that a defendant received or has had in his possession at any time a greater amount of controlled…
  3. ARTICLE 3. Copies of Prescriptions § 11195 · 1 section
    • § 11195 Whenever the pharmacist’s copy of a controlled substance prescription is removed by a peace officer, agent of the Attorney General, or inspector of the Board…
  4. ARTICLE 4. Refilling Prescriptions §§ 11200–11201 · 2 sections
    • § 11200 (a) No person shall dispense or refill a controlled substance prescription more than six months after the date thereof. (b) No prescription for a Schedule III…
    • § 11201 A prescription for a controlled substance, except those appearing in schedule II, may be refilled without the prescriber’s authorization if the prescriber is…
  5. ARTICLE 5. Pharmacists’ Records §§ 11205–11209 · 5 sections
    • § 11205 The owner of a pharmacy or any person who purchases a controlled substance upon federal order forms as required pursuant to the provisions of the Federal…
    • § 11206 Filed prescriptions shall constitute a transaction record that, together with information that is readily retrievable in the pharmacy pursuant to Section 11164…
    • § 11207 (a) No person other than a pharmacist as defined in Section 4036 of the Business and Professions Code or an intern pharmacist, as defined in Section 4030 of…
    • § 11208 In a prosecution under this division, proof that a defendant received or has had in his possession at any time a greater amount of controlled substances than…
    • § 11209 (a) No person shall deliver Schedule II, III, or IV controlled substances to a pharmacy or pharmacy receiving area, nor shall any person receive controlled…