2011 California Code
Business and Professions Code
DIVISION 2. HEALING ARTS [500 - 4999.122]
ARTICLE 11. Wholesalers and Manufacturers
Section 4163

(a) A manufacturer, wholesaler, repackager, or pharmacy may not furnish a dangerous drug or dangerous device to an unauthorized person.

(b) Dangerous drugs or dangerous devices shall be acquired from a person authorized by law to possess or furnish dangerous drugs or dangerous devices. When the person acquiring the dangerous drugs or dangerous devices is a wholesaler, the obligation of the wholesaler shall be limited to obtaining confirmation of licensure of those sources from whom it has not previously acquired dangerous drugs or dangerous devices.

(c) Except as otherwise provided in Section 4163.5, commencing on July 1, 2016, a wholesaler or repackager may not sell, trade, or transfer a dangerous drug at wholesale without providing a pedigree.

(d) Except as otherwise provided in Section 4163.5, commencing on July 1, 2016, a wholesaler or repackager may not acquire a dangerous drug without receiving a pedigree.

(e) Except as otherwise provided in Section 4163.5, commencing on July 1, 2017, a pharmacy may not sell, trade, or transfer a dangerous drug at wholesale without providing a pedigree.

(f) Except as otherwise provided in Section 4163.5, commencing on July 1, 2017, a pharmacy may not acquire a dangerous drug without receiving a pedigree.

(g) Except as otherwise provided in Section 4163.5, commencing on July 1, 2017, a pharmacy warehouse may not acquire a dangerous drug without receiving a pedigree. For purposes of this section and Section 4034, a pharmacy warehouse means a physical location licensed as a wholesaler for prescription drugs that acts as a central warehouse and performs intracompany sales or transfers of those drugs to a group of pharmacies under common ownership and control.

(Amended by Stats. 2008, Ch. 713, Sec. 8. Effective January 1, 2009. Conditionally inoperative as prescribed in subd. (a) of Section 4034.1.)