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2025 California Code
Business and Professions Code - BPC
DIVISION 2 - HEALING ARTS
CHAPTER 9 - Pharmacy
ARTICLE 4 - Requirements for Prescriptions
Section 4071.
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CA Bus & Prof Code § 4071 (2025)
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4071. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a prescriber may authorize his or her agent on his or her behalf to orally or electronically transmit a prescription to the furnisher. The furnisher shall make a reasonable effort to determine that the person who transmits the prescription is authorized to do so and shall record the name of the authorized agent of the prescriber who transmits the order.
This section shall not apply to orders for Schedule II controlled substances.
(Amended by Stats. 1997, Ch. 549, Sec. 46. Effective January 1, 1998.)
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