Okla. Admin. Code § 475:10-1-5 - Exemptions of agents and employees
The following persons shall not be required to register and may lawfully possess controlled dangerous substances in the performance of their official duties under the provisions of the Act:
(1) An agent, or employee thereof, of any
registered manufacturer, distributor, dispenser and/or user for scientific
purposes of any controlled dangerous substances if such agent is acting in the
usual course of his/her business or employment.
(2) Interns or residents of teaching
hospitals shall not be required to register and may administer, dispense,
and/or prescribe controlled dangerous substances provided that:
(A) All prescriptions issued by such interns
or residents for outpatients shall be countersigned by a physician licensed by
the physician's appropriate State of Oklahoma licensing board and shall bear
such physician's personal designated hospital code number.
(B) Such intern or resident is so authorized
by the hospital and is acting only within the scope of his/her employment
within the teaching hospital.
(3) An individual physician, dentist,
podiatrist, or veterinarian, as defined in 63 Okl. St. Ann. § 2-101, who
is a resident or foreign-trained, whose practice is, for any reason, limited
solely to federal, state, or local government institutions, shall dispense,
administer and/or prescribe controlled dangerous substances under the authority
of the license of the institutional hospital by whom he/she is employed in lieu
of being registered himself/herself, provided that:
(A) Such dispensing, administering, and/or
prescribing is done in the usual course of his/her professional
practice.
(B) Such individual
practitioner is authorized to carry on the respective activities under the laws
of the State of Oklahoma by the appropriate State of Oklahoma licensing
board.
(C) The hospital or other
institution by which he/she is employed has verified that the individual
practitioner is so permitted to dispense, administer, and/or prescribe drugs
within the jurisdiction.
(D) Such
individual practitioner is acting only within the scope of his/her employment
in the hospital or institution.
(E)
Records relating to controlled dangerous substances that are prescribed by such
residents, foreign-trained physicians, or physicians limited to federal, state,
or local government institutions, shall be kept pursuant to Title 21 Code of
Federal Regulations §1304.04 and
475:25-1-18.
(4) An individual practitioner, as defined in
(3) of this Section, who is limited solely to federal, state, or local
government institutional practice, may obtain individual fee-exempt
registration in the event that such institution by which he/she is employed
does not maintain a hospital as defined by the appropriate State of Oklahoma
licensing authority and the institution is not so registered with the OBN.
(A) Such limited practitioners shall be
required to maintain records of all controlled dangerous substances
administered, dispensed, and prescribed by such practitioner.
(B) Such limited practitioners shall be
authorized to dispense, administer, and/or prescribe controlled dangerous
substances in the course of their professional practice only within such
institution as designated by their appropriate State of Oklahoma licensing
boards.
(C) Prior to being
authorized to dispense, administer, and/or prescribe controlled dangerous
substances at any new or additional location, such limited practitioners shall
be required to report to the OBN each change of location or addition of
institutional employment.
(D) Such
limited practitioners shall be held individually responsible for safeguards,
record keeping, inventories, transferring, and disposing of controlled
dangerous substances in accordance with this Chapter.
Notes
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