Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 21a - Consumer Protection › 408 - Palliative Use of Marijuana › Section 21a-408-8 - Revocation or suspension of a qualifying patient or primary caregiver registration

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) The
			 commissioner may place conditions upon, revoke or suspend the registration
			 certificate of a qualifying patient, in accordance with the Uniform
			 Administrative Procedure Act, sections 4-166 to 4-189, inclusive, of the
			 Connecticut General Statutes, under the following circumstances:
(1) The qualifying patient becomes an inmate
			 confined in a correctional institution or facility under the supervision of the
			 Department of Correction;
(2) The
			 qualifying patient's physician or APRN notifies the department that the
			 physician or APRN is withdrawing the written certification submitted on behalf
			 of the qualifying patient and, thirty days after the physician's or APRN's
			 withdrawal of the written certification, the patient has not obtained a valid
			 written certification from a different physician or APRN;
(3) The qualifying patient or primary
			 caregiver provided false, misleading or incorrect information to the
			 department;
(4) The qualifying
			 patient is no longer a resident of Connecticut;
(5) The qualifying patient, together with the
			 qualifying patient's caregiver where applicable, obtains more than a one-month
			 supply of marijuana in a one-month period;
(6) The qualifying patient provides or sells
			 marijuana to any person, including another registered qualifying patient or
			 primary caregiver;
(7) The
			 qualifying patient uses marijuana in a place or manner not permitted by the Act
			 or sections
			 21a-408-1 to 21a-408-72,
			 inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies;
(8) The qualifying patient uses marijuana in
			 a manner that puts others at risk or fails to take reasonable precautions to
			 avoid putting others at risk;
(9)
			 The qualifying patient permits another person to use the qualifying patient's
			 registration certificate;
(10) The
			 qualifying patient tampers, falsifies, alters, modifies or allows another
			 person to tamper, falsify alter or modify the qualifying patient's registration
			 certificate;
(11) The qualifying
			 patient's physician or APRN is no longer available to provide care to the
			 patient and, after thirty days from the physician or APRN notifying the
			 department of the physician's or APRN's unavailability, the patient has not
			 established a bona-fide healthcare professional-patient relationship with a
			 different physician or APRN;
(12)
			 The primary caregiver notifies the department that the primary caregiver is no
			 longer willing to serve as a primary caregiver for the qualifying patient, or
			 the primary caregiver's registration certification has been suspended or
			 revoked, in which case the qualifying patient shall have thirty days to
			 register an acceptable primary caregiver with the department before the
			 department may commence an action to suspend or revoke the qualifying patient's
			 registration;
(13) The qualifying
			 patient's registration certificate is lost, stolen or destroyed and the patient
			 or the patient's primary caregiver fails to notify the department or notifies
			 the department of such incident more than five business days after becoming
			 aware that the registration certificate was lost, stolen or
			 destroyed;
(14) The qualifying
			 patient fails to notify the department of a change in registration information
			 or notifies the department of such change more than five business days after
			 the change; or
(15) The qualifying
			 patient has violated any section of the Act or sections
			 21a-408-1 to 21a-408-72,
			 inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies.