2015 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification, Title Protection and Registration. Examining Boards
Chapter 400j - Pharmacy
Section 20-610 - (Formerly Sec. 20-166). Dispensing or retail sale of legend drugs, legend devices and certain other drugs by other than pharmacies and hospitals, prohibited.

(a) No legend drug, legend device or drugs listed in subsection (b) of this section may be dispensed or sold at retail except (1) in a pharmacy, (2) by a hospital licensed under sections 19a-490 to 19a-503, inclusive, to an employee of the hospital when prescribed by a prescribing practitioner for the employee or the employee’s spouse or dependent children, or (3) by such hospital to a retiree of such hospital or the retiree’s spouse in accordance with the retiree’s retirement or pension plan.

(b) The following drugs may not be sold at retail except as permitted in subsection (a) of this section: (1) Injectable or ingestible antibiotics; (2) injectable biologicals; (3) sulfonamides and their compounds which are designed to be taken into the stomach for systemic action; (4) injectable or ingestible corticosteroids; or (5) camphorated tincture of opium.

(c) Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.

(1949 Rev., S. 4465; 1951, 1955, S. 2237d; 1959, P.A. 616, S. 53; 1963, P.A. 367; February, 1965, P.A. 319; 1967, P.A. 109, S. 3; 555, S. 77; 1971, P.A. 134; June, 1971, P.A. 8, S. 60; 1972, P.A. 223, S. 7; P.A. 73-670, S. 1, 2; P.A. 74-100, S. 1, 2; P.A. 76-286; P.A. 77-614, S. 199, 610; P.A. 79-16; P.A. 81-107; P.A. 85-241, S. 2; P.A. 86-403, S. 41, 132; P.A. 89-251, S. 95, 203; P.A. 94-36, S. 33, 42; P.A. 95-264, S. 32; P.A. 01-65, S. 1, 2.)

History: 1959 act increased permit fee for towns with population of less than 5,000 from $3 and doubled fee for towns with population of more than 5,000; 1963 act added corticosteroids and mild silver protein to, and deleted argyrol from, provision listing items prohibited from sale; 1965 act added penalty proviso for failure to renew in timely fashion and prohibited issuance of renewal permit until fee and penalty paid; 1967 acts added references to dentist’s prescriptions and deleted descriptive references to opium, morphine and codeine content of preparations and compounds and substituted “any controlled drug as defined in section 19-443, except as permitted in sections 20-180 and part II of chapter 359” and added similar reference to “controlled drug” in list of items prohibited for sale by stores or shops not licensed as pharmacies; 1971 acts required permittee for sale of drugs, etc. to be at least 21, allowed imposition of penalty for failure to record change in permittee with commission of pharmacy and doubled permit fees; 1972 act established separate renewal fee of $10; P.A. 73-670 added exception to prohibition of retail sales except by pharmacist for methadone sold by hospitals; P.A. 74-100 expanded exception to include sales by hospitals to employees for themselves or their dependents; P.A. 76-286 deleted age, citizenship and moral character requirements for permit holders, deleted provision re sales by store not licensed as a pharmacy under special permit, replaced differential fees based on population with single fee of $35, raised renewal fee from ten to $25, made penalties $10 rather than 50% of permit fee, deleted provision allowing appeal by person who has been refused a permit and prohibited sales of “legend drugs” as defined in Sec. 20-184a; P.A. 77-614 replaced commission’s regulations with regulations “established under this chapter”, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 79-16 deleted exception re sales of methadone by hospitals; P.A. 81-107 qualified as “injectable” or “ingestible” the antibiotics and corticosteroids which may not be stored, kept, sold or offered for sale by stores or shops other than licensed pharmacies; P.A. 85-241 clarified that the sale of veterinary medicines, poisons or chemicals by permittees is not prohibited and substituted references to licensed practitioners for references to physicians and dentists; P.A. 86-403 made technical change; P.A. 89-251 increased the original fee from $35 to $70 and increased the renewal fee from $25 to $50; P.A. 94-36 deleted the provision allowing the collection of late license renewal fees, effective January 1, 1995; P.A. 95-264 divided sections into Subsecs., substituted reference to legend drugs for reference to substances used to compound medicine, deleted provisions re sale of patent medicines and specified certain types of drugs to be sold only as permitted in Subsec. (a) in new provision designated as Subsec. (b); Sec. 20-166 transferred to Sec. 20-610 in 1997; P.A. 01-65 amended Subsec. (a) by designating existing exceptions as Subdivs. (1) and (2) and adding new Subdiv. (3) re retirees of hospital, effective June 6, 2001.

See Sec. 21a-4(c) re fines for late license renewals.