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MA Gen L ch 112 § 32 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 32 - Investigation of Complaints; Participation in National Data Reporting System

Section 32. The board shall investigate all complaints of the violation of any provision of sections twenty-four to forty-two, inclusive, or of section sixty-five, so far as it relates to pharmacy, and report the same to the proper prosecuting officers, and especially investigate and cause to be prosecuted all violations of sections twenty-nine to thirty G, inclusive, of chapter one hundred and thirty-eight.  The board shall participate in any national data reporting system that provides information on individual pharmacies, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians including, but not limited to, relevant databases maintained by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy and the federal Food and Drug Administration.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 33 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 33 - Access to Documents by Registered Pharmacists Against Whom a Complaint or Charge Is Pending

Section 33. A registered pharmacist against whom a complaint or charge is pending before the board, or his counsel, shall have the same right of access to documents in the possession of said board as a person charged with crime in the courts of the commonwealth would have to documents in the possession of the clerk of the court or the prosecuting officer.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 34 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 34 - Certificate of Conviction of Pharmacist; Notification of Board

Section 34. The court or magistrate before whom a person is convicted of a violation of section thirty of this chapter, or of any provision of sections twenty-nine to thirty F, inclusive, of chapter one hundred and thirty-eight relating to the retention, filing or inspection of prescriptions, or of section two of chapter two hundred and seventy shall send to the board a certificate under seal showing the time, cause and place of conviction.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 36 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 36 - Continuance of Business of Deceased or Incapacitated Registered Pharmacists

Section 36. The surviving spouse, executor or administrator of a registered pharmacist who has died or the spouse of one who has become incapacitated may continue his business under a registered pharmacist, who may also be considered qualified to receive a certificate of fitness under section thirty of chapter one hundred and thirty-eight authorizing him to exercise upon the premises of said deceased or incapacitated pharmacist the rights conferred by section twenty-nine of said chapter upon holders of said certificates; provided, that the registered pharmacist under whom the business is continued is in charge of the premises and present therein.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 36a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 36a - Sale, Distribution or Delivery, at Wholesale, of Drugs or Medicines; License

Section 36A. Except as otherwise provided in section thirty-five, no person shall engage in the sale, distribution or delivery, at wholesale, of drugs or medicines within the commonwealth without a license so to do.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 36b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 36b - Sale, Distribution or Delivery, at Wholesale, of Drugs or Medicines; License Fee; Qualification; Renewal

Section 36B. The board shall upon application and the payment of an annual license fee to be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven issue licenses required by section thirty-six A; provided, that no such license shall be issued to any applicant unless the board is satisfied that he or it is actually engaged in and is carrying on such wholesale business. Such license shall be renewed on or before December first of each year upon the payment of a license fee to be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven. Any person who is engaged in the wholesale drug business at more than one location, shall obtain such a license for each location.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 36c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 36c - Use of Words ''wholesale Druggist''; Inspection and Investigation of Wholesale Dealers; Reports of Violations; Complaints

Section 36C. No person shall use the words ''wholesale druggist'' or any other words of similar import, holding himself or itself out to be engaged in the sale, distribution or delivery of drugs or medicines, at wholesale, without first having been licensed as provided in sections thirty-six A and thirty-six B. The agents of the board shall have authority, during business hours, to inspect and investigate all wholesale dealers in drugs or medicines, and shall report all violations of sections thirty-six A to thirty-six D, inclusive, to the board, upon the direction of which such agents shall apply for criminal complaints against persons guilty of any such violations.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 36d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 36d - Penalties

Section 36D. Whoever, not being licensed as provided in sections thirty-six A and thirty-six B, engages in the sale, distribution or delivery, at wholesale, of drugs or medicines, or uses the words ''wholesale druggist'' or any other words of similar import in connection with his business to indicate the sale, distribution or delivery of such commodities, at wholesale, or whoever sells, distributes or delivers such commodities at retail, and holds himself out to be a wholesale druggist by using the words, ''wholesale druggist'' or words of similar import in connection with his business, or in advertising the same, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment in a jail or house of correction for not less than thirty days nor more than one year, or both.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 37 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 37 - Drug Business; Definition

Section 37. ''Drug business'', as used in the two following sections, shall mean the sale, or the keeping or exposing for sale of drugs, medicines, chemicals or poisons, except as otherwise provided in section thirty-five, also the sale or the keeping or exposing for sale of opium, morphine, heroin, codeine or other narcotics, or any salt or compound thereof, or any preparation containing the same, or cocaine, alpha or beta eucaine, or any synthetic substitute therefor, or any salt or compound thereof, or any preparation containing the same, and the said term shall also mean the compounding and dispensing of physicians' prescriptions.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 38 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 38 - Transaction of Retail Drug Business; Registration; Permit; Display of Permit

Section 38. No store or retail food store pharmacy department or retail store pharmacy department shall be kept open for the transaction of the retail drug business, or be advertised or represented as transacting such business, by means of any sign or advertisement containing the words ''drug store'', ''pharmacy'', ''apothecary'', ''drug'', ''drugs'', ''medicine shop'', or any combination of such words, or otherwise, unless it is registered with, and a permit therefor has been issued by the board as provided in the following section; provided, however, that said words, or any of them, may, with the written permission of the board, be used with respect to a store or retail food store pharmacy department or retail store pharmacy department not registered with, and not having a permit issued by, the board as aforesaid, if in the town, or voting precinct thereof, where such store or retail food store pharmacy department or retail store pharmacy department is located there is no store or retail food store pharmacy department or retail store pharmacy department so registered and having such a permit. Such permit shall be displayed in a conspicuous place in the store or retail food store pharmacy department or retail store pharmacy department for which it is issued. The word ''town'', as used in this section, shall not include city. Identification of a retail food store pharmacy department or retail store pharmacy department by use of the words ''drug store'', ''pharmacy'', ''apothecary'', ''drug'', ''drugs'', ''medicine shop'', or any combination thereof shall be restricted to the area registered by the board for the transaction of the retail drug business.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 39 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 39 - Registration; Permits; Fees; Rendering of Final Decision; Establishment of Specialty Pharmacy Licensure Categories

Section 39. The board may, upon application made in such manner and form as it shall determine, register a store or retail food store pharmacy department or retail store pharmacy department for the transaction of the retail drug business, and issue to such person as it deems qualified to conduct such store or retail food store pharmacy department or retail store pharmacy department, a permit to keep it open; provided, however, that the board may deny such registration and refuse to issue such permit if, in its reasonable discretion, such store or retail food store pharmacy department or retail store pharmacy department would be inconsistent with or opposed to the best interests of the public health, welfare or safety, but no such registration shall be made or permit issued in the case of a corporation unless it shall appear to the satisfaction of the board that the management of such drug store or retail food store pharmacy department or retail store pharmacy department is in the hands of a registered pharmacist. Such permit shall expire on December thirty-first of each uneven numbered year following the date of its issue, and the fee therefor shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under the provision of section three B of chapter seven.  The board shall, within one hundred and fifty days after the filing of an application render a final decision denying or allowing registration. For the purposes of this section and section thirty-eight the term retail food store pharmacy department shall mean any area for the transaction of the retail drug business which is located within a retail food store.  The board may establish specialty pharmacy licensure categories beyond those delineated in this section, and in sections 39A to 39C, inclusive, and in sections 39G to 39J, inclusive, through the promulgation of regulations as deemed necessary by the board in consultation with the commissioner of public health. The board shall determine which regulations, applicable to a retail drug business registered pursuant to section 39, shall apply to a pharmacy registered pursuant to this section and may establish regulations that shall only apply to a licensure category established pursuant to this paragraph. The licensure fee shall be determined annually by the secretary of administration and finance under section 3B of chapter 7.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 39a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 39a - Restricted Pharmacies; Registration

Section 39A. The board may, upon application of the plan administrator or trustee of any trust, fund, pension plan, combination plan or profit sharing plan, which is subject to the provisions of chapter one hundred and fifty-one D, register a facility, hereinafter called a restricted pharmacy, for the limited transaction of the drug business as defined in section thirty-seven. A restricted pharmacy may furnish pharmacy services only to beneficiaries, as defined in section one of said chapter one hundred and fifty-one D, of said trust, fund, pension plan, combination plan or profit sharing plan and who reside in the commonwealth or in any other New England state. Charges for such services shall be determined by said trustee or plan administrator. A restricted pharmacy may, after written notice to the board limit its operation to a specific schedule of drugs.  Said board shall determine which regulations, applicable to a retail drug business registered under section thirty-nine shall apply to a pharmacy registered under this section and may establish, subject to the provisions of section two of chapter thirty A, regulations which shall apply only to a restricted pharmacy.  Nothing in this section shall prohibit a restricted pharmacy from accepting and filling prescriptions by mail; provided, however, that, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (c) of section eighteen of chapter ninety-four C or any other law to the contrary, the prescribing physician is verified, according to procedures established by the board, as licensed to practice in the commonwealth or in any New England state.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 39b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 39b - Nuclear Pharmacies

Section 39B. The board may, upon application, made in such manner and form as it shall determine, register an establishment for transacting business as a nuclear pharmacy as defined in section one of chapter ninety-four C. A nuclear pharmacy shall not perform any pharmacy functions other than the dispensing of radiopharmaceutical drug products. The board shall issue a permit to such person as its deems qualified to conduct such pharmacy; provided, however, that the board may deny such registration and may refuse to issue such permit if, in its discretion, it determines that such pharmacy would be inconsistent with or opposed to the best interest of the public health, welfare and safety. No such registration shall be made or permit issued in the case of a corporation unless it shall appear to the satisfaction of the board that the management of such nuclear pharmacy is in the hands of a registered pharmacist. Such permit shall expire on December thirty-first of each uneven numbered year following the date of its issue, and the fee therefor shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration and finance under the provisions of section three B of chapter seven. The board shall, within one hundred and fifty days after the filing of an application, render a final decision denying or allowing registration. Failure to render such decision, except when failure to act is caused by the delay of the applicant, shall constitute an approval of the application and the permit shall be issued.  The board, in consultation with the department of public health shall promulgate regulations pertaining to the operation of nuclear pharmacies in the commonwealth. Such regulations may include procedures governing the dispensing of radiopharmaceutical drugs when the name of a patient to whom the drug is to be administered is not known at the time a prescription order is received, provided that such regulations shall allow a nuclear pharmacist up to seventy-two hours after dispensing a radiopharmaceutical drug to determine the patient's name and record such information on the appropriate form.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 39c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 39c - Long-Term Care Pharmacy and Home Infusion Pharmacy

Section 39C. The board may, upon application, made in such manner and form as it shall determine, register an establishment for transacting business as a long-term care pharmacy or home infusion pharmacy, and issue to such entity as it deems qualified to conduct long-term care pharmacy or home infusion, a permit to operate. A registered entity shall be considered a retail pharmacy and not a provider of institutional, residential, or long-term care services. The board may deny such registration and refuse to issue such permit, if, in its reasonable discretion, such entity would be inconsistent with or opposed to the best interests of the public health, welfare or safety, but no such registration shall be made or permit issued in the case of a corporation, as defined in section 30 of chapter 63 unless it shall appear to the satisfaction of the board that the management of such entity is controlled solely by a registered pharmacist. Such permit shall expire on December 31 of each uneven numbered year following the date of its issue, and the fee therefore, shall be determined annually by the commissioner of administration under section 3B of chapter 7. The board, in consultation with the department of public health shall promulgate regulations pertaining to the operation of long-term care and home infusion pharmacies in the commonwealth subject to section 2 of chapter 30A. Said board shall determine which regulations, applicable to a retail drug business under section 39 shall apply to long-term care or home infusion pharmacies. The board shall, within 150 days after the filing of an application, render a final decision denying or allowing registration. Failure to render such decision, except when such failure to act is caused by the delay of the applicant, shall constitute an approval of the application and permit shall be issued. For the purposes of this section, the term long-term care pharmacy shall mean a pharmacy which dispenses pharmaceuticals, sterile intravenous drugs and nutritional products ordered by physicians to patients in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, hospice programs and similar institutional sites of care. For the purposes of this section, the term home infusion pharmacy shall mean a pharmacy which dispenses sterile intravenous drugs ordered by physicians to patients in their homes.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 39f (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 39f - Compounding and Distribution of Sterile or Complex Non-Sterile Drug Preparation Prohibited Without License; Adherence to Current Standards Under Cgmp

Section 39F. (a) A pharmacy shall not engage in sterile compounding nor shall a pharmacy prescribe, ship, mail, sell, transfer or dispense sterile drug preparations in the commonwealth unless the pharmacy has obtained a license from the board pursuant to section 39G, 39I or 39J.  (b) No pharmacy shall engage in complex non-sterile compounding nor shall a pharmacy prescribe, ship, mail, sell, transfer or dispense complex non-sterile drug preparations in the commonwealth unless the pharmacy has obtained a license from the board pursuant to section 39H or 39J.  (c) An entity that intends to compound and distribute a sterile drug preparation or a complex nonsterile drug within or outside of the commonwealth in volumes inconsistent with routinely observed volume patterns associated with patient-specific prescriptions or in the absence of accountability documentation shall adhere to the most current standards established under cGMP when engaging in any form of compounding. The entities shall either register as a producer of drugs with the federal Food and Drug Administration pursuant to section 510 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, codified at 21 U.S.C. section 360 or register as an outsourcing facility with both the federal Food and Drug Administration pursuant to section 503B of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, codified at 21 U.S.C. § 353b, and the board of registration in pharmacy pursuant to section 36E before engaging in any sterile compounding or complex nonsterile compounding.  (d) A pharmacy shall not compound any drug preparations banned by the federal Food and Drug Administration because of safety concerns.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 40 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 40 - Suspension or Revocation of Registration and Permit; Notice; Hearing

Section 40. The board may suspend or revoke any registration made under section thirty-nine, thirty-nine A or thirty-nine B and any permit issued thereunder for any violation of the law pertaining to the drug business or the sale of alcoholic beverages, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and thirty-eight, or for any violation of the rules and regulations established by the board, or for aiding or abetting in a violation of any such law, rules or regulations; but before such suspension or revocation the board shall give a hearing to the holder of the permit, after due notice to him of the charges against him and of the time and place of the hearing. Such holder may appear at the hearing with witnesses and be heard by counsel. Witnesses shall testify on oath and any member of the board may administer oaths to them. The board may require the attendance of persons and compel the production of books and documents. Three members of the board shall be a quorum for such a hearing, but no registration or permit shall be suspended or revoked unless upon the affirmative vote of three or more members thereof.
MA Gen L ch 112 § 41a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 112 - Registration of Certain Professions and Occupations|Section 41a - Patent and Proprietary Medicines; Non-Controlled Substances; Exemption From Regulation

Section 41A. Sections thirty-six A to forty-one, inclusive, of this chapter, and sections twenty-nine to thirty G, inclusive, of chapter one hundred and thirty-eight shall not apply to the manufacture or sale of patent and proprietary medicines or any substance or drug not included or defined in chapter ninety-four C as a controlled substance.