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2016 Rhode Island General Laws
Title 5 - Businesses and Professions
Chapter 5-37 - Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline
Section 5-37-19 - Blank prescriptions.
RI Gen L § 5-37-19 (2016) What's This?
§ 5-37-19 Blank prescriptions.
Any physician who signs a prescription in blank and delivers it to a patient or any other person except a duly licensed pharmacist shall be fined no more than five hundred dollars ($500).
History of Section.
(P.L. 1971, ch. 185, § 1; P.L. 1999, ch. 110, § 1.)
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