2013 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 2. HEALING ARTS
CHAPTER 9. Pharmacy
ARTICLE 20. Prohibitions and Offenses
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(a) A person who is neither a pharmacist nor a designated representative and who takes charge of a wholesaler or veterinary food-animal drug retailer or who dispenses a prescription or furnishes dangerous devices except as otherwise provided in this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(b) A person who has obtained a license to conduct a veterinary food-animal drug retailer and who fails to place in charge of that veterinary food-animal drug retailer a pharmacist or designated representative, or any person who, by himself or herself, or by any other person, permits the dispensing of prescriptions, except by a pharmacist or designated representative, or as otherwise provided in this chapter, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(c) A person who has obtained a license to conduct a wholesaler and who fails to place in charge of that wholesaler a pharmacist or designated representative, or any person who, by himself or herself, or by any other person, permits the furnishing of dangerous drugs or dangerous devices, except by a pharmacist or designated representative, or as otherwise provided in this chapter, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(d) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2006.

(Repealed (in Sec. 47) and added by Stats. 2004, Ch. 857, Sec. 48. Effective January 1, 2005. Section operative January 1, 2006, by its own provisions.)