2023 Oklahoma Statutes › Title 63. Public Health and Safety › §63-2-304v1. Denial, suspension, annulment, or revocation of registration.

A. A registration, pursuant to Section 2-303 of this title, to manufacture, distribute, dispense, prescribe, administer or use for scientific purposes a controlled dangerous substance shall be limited, conditioned, denied, suspended, annulled, or revoked by the Director upon a finding that the registrant:
1. Has materially falsified any application filed pursuant to the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act or required by the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act. It shall be unlawful to knowingly and willfully:
a.
make false statements, include false data or omit material information on an application for a registration with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, or
b.
provide false data or omit material information in any records or reports required by rule or law to be created, maintained or submitted to the Bureau.
Any registrant or applicant for a registration or any official, agent or employee of any registrant or applicant for a registration who violates the provisions of this paragraph shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and additionally subject to administrative action;
2. Has been found guilty of, entered a plea of guilty or entered a plea of nolo contendere to a misdemeanor relating to any substance defined herein as a controlled dangerous substance or any felony under the laws of any state or the United States;
3. Has had his or her federal registration retired, suspended or revoked by a competent federal authority and is no longer authorized by federal law to manufacture, distribute, dispense, prescribe, administer or use for scientific purposes controlled dangerous substances;
4. Has failed to maintain effective controls against the diversion of controlled dangerous substances to unauthorized persons or entities;
5. Has prescribed, dispensed or administered a controlled dangerous substance from schedules other than those specified in his or her state or federal registration;
6. Has had a restriction, suspension, revocation, limitation, condition or probation placed on his or her professional license or certificate or practice as a result of a proceeding pursuant to the general statutes;
7. Is abusing or, within the past five (5) years, has abused or excessively used drugs or controlled dangerous substances;
8. Has prescribed, sold, administered or ordered any controlled dangerous substance for an immediate family member, himself or herself; provided that this shall not apply to a medical emergency when no other doctor is available to respond to the emergency;
9. Has possessed, used, prescribed, dispensed or administered drugs or controlled dangerous substances for other than legitimate medical or scientific purposes or for purposes outside the normal course of his or her professional practice;
10. Has been under the influence of alcohol or another intoxicating substance which adversely affected the central nervous system, vision, hearing or other sensory or motor functioning to such degree the person was impaired during the performance of his or her job; or
11. Has violated any federal law relating to any controlled dangerous substances, any provision of the Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Act or any rules of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control.
B. In the event the Director suspends or revokes a registration granted under Section 2-303 of this title, all controlled dangerous substances owned or possessed by the registrant pursuant to such registration at the time of revocation or suspension or the effective date of the revocation order, as the case may be, may in the discretion of the Director be impounded and preserved. All controlled dangerous substances not impounded or preserved by the Director shall be maintained by the registrant. No disposition, purchase, distribution, sale, or transfer may be made of substances until the time for taking an appeal has elapsed or until all appeals have been concluded unless a court, upon application therefor, orders the sale of perishable substances and the deposit of the proceeds of the sale with the court. Upon a revocation order becoming final, all such controlled dangerous substances shall be forfeited to the state or otherwise considered waste and submitted to a licensed medical marijuana waste disposal service for destruction pursuant to Section 430 of this title.
C. The Drug Enforcement Administration shall promptly be notified of all orders suspending or revoking registration and all forfeitures of controlled dangerous substances.
Added by Laws 1971, c. 119, § 2-304, operative Sept. 1, 1971. Amended by Laws 1982, c. 120, § 2, emerg. eff. April 6, 1982; Laws 1993, c. 285, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993; Laws 1996, c. 306, § 6, emerg. eff. June 10, 1996; Laws 2015, c. 1, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2015; Laws 2021, c. 553, § 30, eff. Nov. 1, 2021; Laws 2023, c. 176, § 1, emerg. eff. May 2, 2023.