Title 32, Professions and Occupations

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Administer" means directly applying a controlled substance, prescription-only drug, dangerous drug or narcotic drug, whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion or any other means, to the body of a patient or research su…

A. In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, for the purposes of disciplining a permittee, "unethical conduct" means the following, whether occurring in this state or elsewhere: 1. Committing a felony, whether or not involving moral turpitude, or a misdemeanor invol…

A. The Arizona state board of pharmacy is established consisting of the following members who are appointed by the governor: 1. Six pharmacists at least one of whom is a pharmacist employed by a licensed hospital and at least one of whom is employed by a community pharmacy and en…

A. The board shall annually elect a president and a vice-president from among its membership and, subject to title 41, chapter 4, article 4, select an executive director who may or may not be a member of the board. The executive director shall serve at the pleasure of the board. …

A. The board shall: 1. Make bylaws and adopt rules that are necessary to protect the public and that pertain to the practice of pharmacy, the manufacturing, wholesaling or supplying of drugs, devices, poisons or hazardous substances, the use of pharmacy technicians and support pe…

A. The board of pharmacy shall hold meetings to consider license, permit and registration applications and to transact other business legally coming before it. The board must hold at least four meetings in each fiscal year. B. The board shall designate the time and place of its m…

A. The board may join and subscribe to state, district, regional or national organizations or publications relating to and dealing with pharmacy and manufacturing, wholesaling, and distribution of drugs, devices, poisons, and hazardous substances. B. Members of the board, the exe…

(L24, Ch. 222, sec. 27 & Ch. 232, sec. 1. Eff. until 7/1/28) A. Except as provided in section 32-1939, the executive director shall receive and receipt for all fees and other monies provided for in this chapter and shall deposit, pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, fifteen pe…

A. The provisions of this chapter regarding the selling of drugs, poisons, or hazardous substances shall be considered to include the sale, dispensing, furnishing or giving of any such article, or the supplying or applying of any such articles in the conduct of any drug, poison, …

A. A donor may donate medicine to an authorized recipient, and an authorized recipient may receive donated medicine from donors. Before a donor may make its first donation to an authorized recipient, the authorized recipient must verify and record all the following: 1. That the d…

A. If a natural disaster or terrorist attack occurs and, as a consequence of the natural disaster or terrorist attack, a state of emergency is declared by the governor or by a county, city or town pursuant to its authority and the declared state of emergency results in individual…

A. This chapter does not prevent: 1. The prescription and dispensing of drugs or prescription medications by a registered nurse practitioner or clinical nurse specialist pursuant to rules adopted by the Arizona state board of nursing in consultation with the Arizona medical board…

A. A pharmacist, pharmacy intern, pharmacy technician and pharmacy technician trainee are not required to disclose the following information when filing an application under this chapter: 1. A single misdemeanor charge that was dismissed, expunged or set aside more than five year…

A. An applicant for licensure as a pharmacist shall: 1. Be a graduate of a school or college of pharmacy or department of pharmacy of a university recognized by the board or the accreditation council for pharmacy education or qualify under subsection D of this section. 2. Have su…

A. A pharmacist who meets the qualifications established by the board to supervise the training of a pharmacy intern shall comply with the rules of the board and be known as a pharmacy intern preceptor. B. A person shall not act as a pharmacy intern until that person is licensed …

A. An applicant for licensure as a pharmacy technician must: 1. Be at least eighteen years of age. 2. Have a high school diploma or the equivalent of a high school diploma. 3. Complete a training program prescribed by board rules. 4. Pass a board-approved pharmacy technician exam…

A. An applicant for licensure as a pharmacist shall pay the board an initial licensure fee of not more than $500. B. An applicant for licensure as a pharmacist, intern or pharmacy technician shall pay a fee prescribed by the board that does not exceed $50 for issuance of a wall l…

A. Except for interns and pharmacy technician trainees, the board shall assign all persons who are licensed under this chapter to one of two license renewal groups. Except as provided in section 32-4301, a holder of a license certificate designated in the licensing database as ev…

A. Except as prescribed in subsection B of this section, a pharmacist, intern, pharmacy technician or pharmacy technician trainee, within ten days after a change in that person's employer, employer's address, home address or contact information, shall electronically update the pe…

A. A licensee shall give written notice to the board office staff of a change in the licensee's residency status authorized by the United States citizenship and immigration services. B. If the licensee's residency status ceases to be authorized by the United States citizenship an…

A. A pharmacist or pharmacy intern is subject to disciplinary action by the board for any of the following: 1. The board determines that the licensee has committed an act of unprofessional conduct. 2. The licensee is found by psychiatric examination to be mentally unfit to practi…

A. A pharmacy technician or pharmacy technician trainee is subject to disciplinary action by the board for any of the following: 1. The board determines that the licensee or registrant has committed an act of unprofessional conduct. 2. The licensee or registrant is found by psych…

A. The board may discipline a permittee if: 1. The board determines that the permittee or permittee's employee is guilty of unethical conduct pursuant to section 32-1901.01, subsection A. 2. Pursuant to a psychiatric examination, the permittee or the permittee's employee is found…

A. A person that resides in this state or in any other jurisdiction and that sells a narcotic or other controlled substance, a prescription-only drug or device, a nonprescription drug, a precursor chemical or a restricted chemical within or into this state shall hold a valid boar…

A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section, a license shall be denied, revoked or suspended or a pharmacist or pharmacy intern shall be placed on probation or censured and a civil penalty imposed only after due notice and a hearing pursuant to title 41, chapter 6, arti…

A. Except as provided in section 32-4301, the board shall require and provide for biennial registration of every pharmacy, wholesaler, third-party logistics provider and manufacturer and any other place in which or from which drugs are sold, compounded, dispensed, stocked, expose…

A. On application, the board may issue the following classes or kinds of permits: 1. If approved by the board, a pharmacy, limited service pharmacy, automated prescription-dispensing kiosk, full service wholesale drug, third-party logistics provider, nonprescription drug wholesal…

A. The board shall assign the permit of all persons or firms issued under this chapter to one of two permit renewal groups. Except as provided in section 32-4301, a holder of a permit designated in the licensing database as even by way of verbiage or numerical value shall renew i…

A. The board may establish a program for the treatment and rehabilitation of licensees who are impaired by alcohol or drug abuse. This program shall include education, intervention, therapeutic treatment and posttreatment monitoring and support. B. The board may contract with oth…

A. The holder of a permit granted under this chapter shall conspicuously display it in the location to which it applies. B. A licensee shall maintain the licensee's current renewal license or duplicate current renewal license, if practicing in more than one location, in the pract…

A. A remote hospital-site pharmacy permittee shall comply with all the provisions of this chapter requiring registration and regulation of pharmacies, with board rules and with applicable federal law. B. A remote hospital-site pharmacy permittee shall ensure that: 1. The remote h…

The board of pharmacy shall adopt and promulgate standards and requirements for approval of schools and colleges of pharmacy.

A. All pharmacists licensed in this state shall satisfactorily complete approved courses of continuing professional pharmacy education or continue their education by other means in accordance with rules adopted by the board before renewing a license. B. The board by rule shall es…

A. The requirements of continuing professional pharmacy education provided in section 32-1936 do not apply to licensees beginning the date of initial licensure until the date of the first license renewal. B. The board may make exceptions from the requirements of section 32-1936 i…

A. As a condition of probation, the board may require that a licensee or permittee be subject to additional compliance inspections or audits and pay the reasonable costs of these inspections and audits. These costs shall not exceed one thousand dollars. The board shall limit thes…

A. Information received and records kept by the board in connection with investigations conducted pursuant to this chapter are confidential and are not open to the public or subject to civil discovery. B. Notwithstanding any other law or code of ethics regarding practitioner conf…

A. A third-party logistics provider that engages in logistics services into, within or from this state shall hold a third-party logistics provider permit in this state. B. A third-party logistics provider shall comply with storage practices, including all of the following: 1. Mai…

A. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, it is unlawful for any person to compound, sell or dispense any drugs or to dispense or compound the prescription orders of a medical practitioner, unless that person is a pharmacist or a pharmacy intern acting under the direct sup…

A. A remote dispensing site pharmacy shall obtain and maintain a pharmacy license issued by the board. B. A remote dispensing site pharmacy shall meet all of the following requirements: 1. Either be jointly owned by a supervising pharmacy in this state or be operated under a cont…

A. No person shall manufacture, sell, offer or hold for sale or give away any new drug or device unless it fully complies with the provisions of the federal act. B. This section shall not apply to the nutritional supplement amygdalin, a cyano-genetic glycoside, also known as laet…

A. The proprietor, manager, and pharmacist in charge of a pharmacy shall be responsible for the quality of drugs and devices sold or dispensed in the pharmacy, except those sold in original packages of the manufacturer. B. No pharmacist or other person shall manufacture, compound…

A. If a medical practitioner prescribes a brand name drug and does not indicate an intent to prevent substitution as prescribed in subsection E of this section, a pharmacist may fill the prescription with a generic equivalent drug. B. A pharmacist may substitute a biological prod…

A. Every proprietor, manager or pharmacist in charge of a pharmacy shall keep in the pharmacy a book or file in which that person places the original of every prescription order of drugs, devices or replacement soft contact lenses that are compounded or dispensed at the pharmacy.…

The following acts or the causing of any thereof, in addition to any others so specified in this chapter, are prohibited: 1. The manufacture, sale, holding or offering for sale of any drug, device, poison, or hazardous substance that is adulterated or misbranded. 2. The adulterat…

A drug or device shall be deemed to be adulterated: 1. If it consists in whole or in part of any filthy, putrid or decomposed substance. 2. If it has been produced, prepared, packed, or held under unsanitary conditions whereby it may have been contaminated with filth, or is not s…

A. A drug or device is misbranded: 1. If its labeling is false or misleading in any particular. 2. If in package form unless it bears a label containing both: (a) The name and place of business of the manufacturer, packer or distributor. (b) An accurate statement of the quantity …

A. A prescription-only drug shall be dispensed only under one of the following conditions: 1. By a medical practitioner in conformance with section 32-1921. 2. On a written prescription order bearing the prescribing medical practitioner's manual signature. 3. On an electronically…

A. This chapter does not prohibit a pharmacist or an intern under a pharmacist's supervision from filling a new written prescription order for a drug or device issued by a medical practitioner licensed by the appropriate licensing board of a foreign country. B. The proprietor, ma…

A. A pharmacist who is licensed pursuant to this chapter may enter into a collaborative practice agreement with a provider pursuant to this section to initiate, monitor and modify drug therapy or provide disease management assistance. The collaborative practice agreement may be b…

A. Chronically ill patients and terminally ill patients have the right to determine, with the assistance and guidance of their health care providers, individual courses of treatment through the use of medications and treatments obtained from a compounding pharmacy. B. Compounding…