2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 21a - Consumer Protection
Chapter 418 - Uniform Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act
Section 21a-109 - (Formerly Sec. 19-228). Drugs dispensed on prescription.

A drug dispensed on a written or oral prescription of a practitioner licensed by law to administer such drug, except a drug dispensed in the course of the conduct of a business of dispensing drugs pursuant to diagnosis by mail, shall, if such drug bears a label containing the name and place of business of the dispenser, the serial number and date of filling or refilling of such prescription, the name of such practitioner licensed by law to administer such drugs and the name of the patient, be exempt from the requirements of section 21a-106, except that no prescription for a legend drug or any derivative of any legend drug, shall be refilled except upon the order of the practitioner licensed by law to administer such drug.

(1949 Rev., S. 3945; 1953, S. 2098d; 1971, P.A. 106; P.A. 82-419, S. 36, 47.)

History: 1971 act required name of patient on drug label for exemption to requirements of Sec. 19-226 to apply; P.A. 82-419 amended section to provide for showing date of filling or refilling prescriptions on labels and to delete references to named substances and insert term “legend drug” in their place; Sec. 19-228 transferred to Sec. 21a-109 in 1983.