Mich. Admin. Code R. 338.536 - Housing of a pharmacy

Rule 36.

(1) All professional and technical equipment and supplies and prescription drugs must be housed in a suitable, well-lighted, and well-ventilated room or department with clean and sanitary surroundings.

(2) All pharmacies shall have a prescription department that is devoted primarily to the practice of pharmacy that occupies not less than 150 square feet of space, and that includes a prescription counter that provides not less than 10 square feet of free working surface. For each additional pharmacist on duty at any 1 time, the free working space must be increased by not less than 4 square feet. The prescription counter must be orderly and clean. The space behind the prescription counter must be sufficient to allow free movement within the area and must be free of obstacles.

(3) Except as allowed in R 338.588a(2), pharmacies that occupy less than the entire area of the premises owned, leased, used, or controlled by the licensee shall be permanently enclosed by partitions from the floor to the ceiling. All partitions must be of substantial construction and must be securely lockable so that drugs and devices that can be sold only by a pharmacist are unobtainable during the absence of the pharmacist. Only the area of the premises owned, leased, used, or controlled by the licensee may be identified by the terms "drugstore," "apothecary," or "pharmacy," or by use of a similar term or combination of terms as listed in section 17711(2) of the code, MCL 333.17711. A pharmacy department must be locked when the pharmacist is not on the premises.

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Mich. Admin. Code R. 338.536

2020 AACS; 2022 AACS; 2024 MR 5, Eff. 2/29/2024