Title 08, Business and Professions

The Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development shall set fees under AS 08.01.065 for the following: (1) examination; (2) reexamination; (3) investigation for licensing by license transfer; (4) pharmacist license; (5) temporary license; (6) pharmacy technician lic…

The board shall establish requirements for continuing education in pharmacy that must be satisfied before a license issued under this chapter may be renewed.

(a) A pharmacist may independently prescribe and administer a vaccine and related emergency medication if the pharmacist has completed an immunization training program approved by the board and otherwise complies with the standards established by the board under AS 08.80.030(b). …

(a) The board may deny a license to an applicant or, after a hearing, impose a disciplinary sanction authorized under AS 08.01.075 on a person licensed under this chapter when the board finds that the applicant or licensee, as applicable, (1) secured or attempted to secure a lice…

(a) The board shall employ an executive administrator to carry out the duties established under (b) of this section. The executive administrator is the principal executive officer of the board. The executive administrator is in the partially exempt service under AS 39.25.120 and …

(a) In addition to other information that may be required under state or federal laws or regulations, a pharmacist, when dispensing a brand-name prescription drug order that is (1) not a biological product, shall include the generic drug name that is an equivalent drug product fo…

(a) Unless the prescription indicates that it is to be dispensed only as written, the pharmacist may, with the consent of the patient, substitute an equivalent drug product or interchangeable biological product. (b) A pharmacist who substitutes an equivalent drug product or inter…

(a) A pharmacist or person acting at the direction of a pharmacist shall disclose the price of filling any prescription when requested by the consumer. (b) No contract or agreement may prohibit a pharmacy, pharmacist, or pharmacy benefits manager from informing a patient of a les…

Information maintained by a pharmacist in the patient's records or that is communicated to the patient as part of patient counseling is confidential and may be released only to (1) the patient or as the patient directs; (2) a practitioner or pharmacist when, in the pharmacist's p…

(a) Each pharmacy shall have a pharmacist-in-charge. Whenever an applicable law or regulation requires or prohibits action by a pharmacy, responsibility shall be that of the owner and the pharmacist-in-charge, whether the owner is a sole proprietor, partnership, association, corp…

(a) A pharmacist filling a prescription for an opioid that is a schedule II or III controlled substance under federal law may, at the request of the individual for whom the prescription is written, dispense the prescribed opioid in a lesser quantity than prescribed. (b) Nothing i…

(a) A pharmacist may, under a collaborative practice agreement with a written protocol approved by a practitioner, provide patient care services. (b) A pharmacist may independently provide patient care services for (1) general health and wellness; (2) disease prevention; or (3) a…

(a) A hospital, clinic, nursing home, infirmary, or related facility that provides outpatient dispensing of drugs for outpatient treatment shall have a licensed pharmacist in charge of the dispensary, except that prescriptions may be compounded and dispensed by or under the super…

This chapter does not affect the practice of medicine by a licensed medical doctor and does not limit a licensed medical doctor, osteopath, podiatrist, physician assistant, advanced practice registered nurse, dentist, veterinarian, dispensing optician, or optometrist in supplying…

A person may not assume or use the title “pharmacist,” or any variation of the title, or hold out to be a pharmacist, without being licensed.

(a) A person may not use or exhibit the title “pharmacist,” “assistant pharmacist,” or “druggist,” or the descriptive term “pharmacy,” “drug store,” “drug sundries,” “apothecary,” or other similar title or term containing the word “drug,” in any business premises or in an adverti…

A person may not display in a place of business the characteristic pharmacy symbol of “Rx” in any form unless the business has a pharmacist licensed under this chapter.

The board may consider a complaint based upon the alleged violation of any provision of this chapter and may, by a majority vote of a quorum, dismiss the complaint, reprimand a licensee, or take other punitive action as the nature of the facts warrant. Orders issued by the board …

(a) Except for a violation of AS 08.80.297, a person who violates a provision of this chapter is guilty of a class B misdemeanor. (b) A person who violates the provisions of AS 08.80.295 or 08.80.297 may be punished by a civil fine in an amount established by the board in a sched…

Nothing in this chapter amends, modifies, repeals or otherwise changes any provision of AS 11.71, AS 17.20 (Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act), or AS 17.30.

This chapter does not apply to the safe storage, preservation, dispensing, or control of drugs in a federally operated hospital or institution.

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, (1) “administer” means the direct application of a drug to the body of a patient or research subject by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or other means; (2) “biological product” means a product that is applicable to the pre…

This chapter may be known as the Pharmacy Act.

(a) There is created the State Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Board, which consists of seven members. The membership consists of three physical therapists licensed in the state or two physical therapists and one physical therapist assistant licensed in the state, three…

The board shall comply with AS 44.62 (Administrative Procedure Act).

(a) To be eligible for licensure by the board as a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant, an applicant, unless a graduate of a foreign school of physical therapy located outside the United States, shall (1) have graduated from a professional physical therapy educatio…

(a) To be eligible for licensure by the board as a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant, an applicant who is a graduate of a school of physical therapy that is located outside the United States shall (1) have completed, to the satisfaction of the board, a resident c…

A physical therapist, physical therapist assistant, occupational therapist, or occupational therapy assistant holding a valid license under this chapter on July 1, 2024, is exempt from the requirements of AS 08.84.030(a)(4) and (b)(4) and 08.84.032(a)(8) and (b)(8), but is otherw…

To be licensed under this chapter to practice physical therapy or occupational therapy, an applicant shall apply to the board on a form prescribed by the board. An applicant shall include in the application evidence under oath that the applicant possesses the qualifications requi…

The Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development shall set fees under AS 08.01.065 for the following: (1) application; (2) license by examination; (3) license by acceptance of credentials; (4) renewal; (5) temporary permit; (6) limited permit; (7) compact privilege…

The board may license without examination an applicant who is a physical therapist, physical therapist assistant, occupational therapist, or occupational therapy assistant licensed under the laws of another state, if the requirements for licensure in that state were, at the date …

(a) The board may issue a nonrenewable temporary permit to an applicant for licensure by acceptance of credentials or by examination who (1) meets the requirements of (A) AS 08.84.030(a)(1) or (b)(1); or (B) AS 08.84.032(a)(2) and (4) or (b)(2) and (4); and (2) pays the required …

(a) The board may issue a limited permit to a person to practice occupational therapy in the state as a visiting, nonresident occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant, if the person (1) applies on the form provided by the board; (2) has not previously been denied …

The board shall examine applicants for licensure under this chapter at the times and places it determines.

The board shall license an applicant who meets the qualifications for licensure under this chapter and shall issue a license certificate to each person licensed. A license certificate is prima facie evidence of the right of the person to hold out as a licensed physical therapist,…

(a) [Repealed, § 49 ch 94 SLA 1987.] (b) If a license remains lapsed for more than three years, the board may require the applicant to submit proof, satisfactory to the board, of continued competency. (c) A license may not be renewed unless the applicant submits proof of continue…

(a) The board may refuse to license an applicant, may refuse to renew the license of a person, may discipline a person, and may suspend or revoke the license of a person who (1) has obtained or attempted to obtain a license by fraud or material misrepresentation; (2) uses drugs o…

(a) A person not licensed as a physical therapist, or whose license is suspended or revoked or has lapsed, who uses in connection with the person's name the words or letters “P.T.,” “Physical Therapist,” “L.P.T.,” “Licensed Physical Therapist,” or other letters, words, or insigni…

A person who wilfully makes a false oath or affirmation or who obtains or attempts to obtain a license by a fraudulent representation is guilty of a class B misdemeanor.

(a) It is unlawful for a person to practice physical therapy without being licensed under this chapter unless the person is (1) a student in an accredited physical therapy program; (2) a graduate of a foreign school of physical therapy fulfilling the internship requirement of AS …

This chapter does not authorize a person to practice medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, or other method of healing, but only to practice physical therapy or occupational therapy.

The board shall request appropriate authorities to conduct investigations of every supposed violation of this chapter coming to its notice and shall report all cases that in the judgment of the board warrant prosecution to the proper law enforcement officials.

The Interstate Physical Therapy Licensure Compact as contained in this section is enacted into law and entered into on behalf of the state with all other states and jurisdictions legally joining it in a form substantially as follows: SECTION 1. PURPOSE The purpose of this Compact…

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, (1) “board” means the State Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy Board; (2) “occupational therapist” means a person who practices occupational therapy; (3) “occupational therapy” means, for compensation, the use of purp…

This chapter may be cited as the Physical Therapists and Occupational Therapists Practice Act.