155A.21 - UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF PRESCRIPTION DRUG OR DEVICE -- PENALTY.
155A.21 UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF PRESCRIPTION DRUG OR
DEVICE -- PENALTY.
1. A person found in possession of a drug or device limited to
dispensation by prescription, unless the drug or device was so
lawfully dispensed, commits a serious misdemeanor.
2. Subsection 1 does not apply to a licensed pharmacy, licensed
wholesaler, physician, veterinarian, dentist, podiatric physician,
therapeutically certified optometrist, advanced registered nurse
practitioner, physician assistant, a nurse acting under the direction
of a physician, or the board of pharmacy, its officers, agents,
inspectors, and representatives, or to a common carrier,
manufacturer's representative, or messenger when transporting the
drug or device in the same unbroken package in which the drug or
device was delivered to that person for transportation. Section History: Recent Form
87 Acts, ch 215, § 21; 95 Acts, ch 108, § 14; 2005 Acts, ch 179,
§185; 2007 Acts, ch 10, §154