Section 318-B:5 Sale by Manufacturer or Wholesaler.
A duly licensed manufacturer or wholesaler may sell and dispense controlled drugs only to any of the following persons, and only on official written orders:
I. To a manufacturer, wholesaler, or pharmacist.
II. To a practitioner.
III. To that person in each hospital designated as in charge of controlled drugs, but only for use by that hospital, pursuant to the restrictions of the board of pharmacy license.
IV. To that person in each laboratory designated as in charge of controlled drugs, but only for use in that laboratory for scientific and medical purposes.
V. To a person in the employ of the United States government or of any state, territorial, district, county, municipal, or insular government purchasing, receiving, possessing, or dispensing controlled drugs by reason of his official duties, upon an exempt official order form as required by the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, as amended.
VI. To a master of a ship or a person in charge of any aircraft upon which no physician is regularly employed, or to a physician or surgeon, duly licensed in some state, territory, or the District of Columbia to practice his profession, or to a retired commissioned medical officer of the United States Army, Navy, or Public Health Service employed upon such ship or aircraft for the medical needs of persons on board such ship or aircraft, or to a physician, surgeon, or retired commissioned medical officer of the United States Army, Navy, or Public Health Service employed upon such ship or aircraft only in pursuance of a special order form approved by the Attorney General of the United States.
VII. To a person in a foreign country if the provisions of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, as amended, are complied with.
Source. 1969, 421:1. 1977, 547:7, 8. 1983, 292:4, eff. Aug. 17, 1983.