Iowa Admin. Code r. 657-5.5 - [Rescinded effective 7/16/2025] Exempt from registration

The following shall be exempt from registration as a pharmacy support person:

1. A licensed pharmacist, registered pharmacist-intern, or registered pharmacy technician.
2. Facility maintenance personnel including but not necessarily limited to cleaning, sanitation, structural, and mechanical maintenance personnel. Facility maintenance personnel deemed exempt from registration shall be directly supervised by a pharmacist or a certified pharmacy technician who is responsible for the maintenance person's activities within the pharmacy department to ensure medication security and patient privacy.
3. Any person not directly employed by or under contract to the pharmacy, and not under the direct supervision of a pharmacist, who provides data processing, data processing support, programming, maintenance, billing, delivery, or administrative support functions outside the pharmacy department.

Notes

Iowa Admin. Code r. 657-5.5
ARC 8673B, IAB 4/7/10, effective 6/1/10; ARC 5543C, IAB 4/7/21, effective 5/12/21
ARC 8673B, IAB 4/7/10, effective 6/1/10 Amended by IAB April 7, 2021/Volume XLIII, Number 21, effective 5/12/2021 Rescinded by IAB June 11, 2025/Volume XLVII, Number 25, effective 7/16/2025

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