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152.11.1

Statute ID: 14212

Statute Function ID: 30796

Drugs - General prescription requirements for controlled substances

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Statute Number:

152.11.1

Enactment Date:

Apr 28, 2012

Effective Date:

Aug 1, 2012

Expiration Date:

Repealed?:

Summary Text:

Drugs - General prescription requirements for controlled substances

Statute ID:

14212

Created:

Jul 24, 2012 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Updated:

Jul 24, 2012 by mnjis.legal.analyst@state.mn.us

Last Update Action:

Updated

Legal Analyst Comment:

2012 c246 s1

Summary Text:

Drugs - General prescription requirements for controlled substances

Link to MN Statute Text:

https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/stats/152/11.html

Legislative Session:

2012 - Regular

Session Law Text?:

Statute text last updated on:

Jul 24, 2012

(a) A written prescription or an oral prescription reduced to writing, when issued for a controlled substance in Schedule II, III, IV, or V, is void unless (1) it is written in ink and contains the name and address of the person for whose use it is intended; (2) it states the amount of the controlled substance to be compounded or dispensed, with directions for its use; (3) if a written prescription, it contains the handwritten signature, address, and federal registry number of the prescriber and a designation of the branch of the healing art pursued by the prescriber; and if an oral prescription, the name and address of the prescriber and a designation of the prescriber's branch of the healing art; and (4) it shows the date when signed by the prescriber, or the date of acceptance in the pharmacy if an oral prescription.
(b) An electronic prescription for a controlled substance in Schedule II, III, IV, or V is void unless it complies with the standards established pursuant to section 62J.497 and with those portions of Code of Federal Regulations, title 21, parts 1300, 1304, 1306 and 1311 that pertain to electronic prescriptions.
(c) A prescription for a controlled substance in Schedule II, III, IV, or V that is transmitted by facsimile, either computer to facsimile machine or facsimile machine to facsimile machine, is void unless it complies with the applicable requirements of Code of Federal Regulations, title 21, part 1306.
(d) Every licensed pharmacy that dispenses a controlled substance prescription shall retain the original prescription in a file for a period of not less than two years, open to inspection by any officer of the state, county, or municipal government whose duty it is to aid and assist with the enforcement of this chapter. An original electronic or facsimile prescription may be stored in an electronic database, provided that the database provides a means by which original prescriptions can be retrieved, as transmitted to the pharmacy, for a period of not less than two years.
(e) Every licensed pharmacy shall distinctly label the container in which a controlled substance is dispensed with the directions contained in the prescription for the use of that controlled substance.