2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 33 - Controlled Substances › Title 4 - Dispensing to Ultimate Users › 3332 - Making of Official New York State Prescriptions or Electronic Prescriptions for Scheduled Substances.

§  3332. Making of official New York state prescriptions or electronic
prescriptions for scheduled substances. 1. No controlled  substance  may
be  prescribed  by  a  practitioner except on an official New York state
prescription or on an electronic prescription, and in good faith and  in
the course of his or her professional practice only.
2.  Such  prescription shall be prepared on an official New York state
prescription form, written with ink, indelible pencil or, apart from the
practitioner's signature, typewriter or electronic printer,  or  to  the
extent   authorized   by   federal   requirements,   on   an  electronic
prescription. The original official New York state prescription  or  the
electronic prescription must contain the following:
(a)  the  name,  address,  and  age  of the ultimate user for whom the
substance is intended, or, if  the  ultimate  user  is  an  animal,  the
species  of  such animal and the name and address of the owner or person
having custody of such animal;
(b) the name, address, Federal registration number, telephone  number,
and  handwritten  signature of the prescribing practitioner, except that
an electronic prescription must contain the electronic signature of  the
prescribing practitioner;
(c)  specific  directions  for  use,  including but not limited to the
dosage and frequency of dosage and the maximum daily dosage;
(d) the date upon which such prescription was actually signed  by  the
prescribing practitioner.
3.  No  such  prescription  shall be made for a quantity of controlled
substances which would exceed a thirty  day  supply  if  the  controlled
substance  were used in accordance with the directions for use specified
on the prescription. A practitioner may, however, issue  a  prescription
for  up  to a three month supply of a controlled substance provided that
the controlled substance  has  been  prescribed  to  treat  one  of  the
conditions  that  have  been  enumerated by the commissioner pursuant to
regulations as warranting the prescribing of greater than a  thirty  day
supply of a controlled substance and that the practitioner specifies the
condition  on  the face of the prescription. No additional prescriptions
for a controlled substance  may  be  issued  by  a  practitioner  to  an
ultimate  user  within  thirty  days  of  the  date  of any prescription
previously issued unless and until the ultimate user has  exhausted  all
but  a  seven  day  supply  of  the controlled substance provided by any
previously issued prescription. A practitioner  may,  however,  issue  a
prescription  for  up  to  a six month supply of any substance listed in
subdivision (h) of Schedule II of section thirty-three  hundred  six  of
this  article  provided that such substance has been prescribed to treat
one of the conditions that have  been  enumerated  by  the  commissioner
pursuant  to  regulations  as  warranting the prescribing of a six month
supply  and  that  the  practitioner  specifies  the  condition  on  the
prescription or on the electronic prescription.
4. The practitioner shall deliver the original official New York state
prescription  to  the  ultimate  user  or  shall transmit the electronic
prescription to the pharmacy.