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Chapter 18.64 RCW

PHARMACISTS

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Sections

HTMLPDF 18.64.001Pharmacy quality assurance commission—Creation—Membership—Oath—Vacancies.
HTMLPDF 18.64.003Commission—Meetings—Chairperson—Compensation and travel expenses.
HTMLPDF 18.64.005Commission—Powers and duties.
HTMLPDF 18.64.006Commission—Panel membership—Quorum.
HTMLPDF 18.64.008Commission—Contraceptive availability awareness.
HTMLPDF 18.64.009Department of health—Enforcement employees declared to be peace officers—Authority.
HTMLPDF 18.64.011Definitions.
HTMLPDF 18.64.020Licensing required.
HTMLPDF 18.64.022Actions by the commission against a license—Written notice—Adjudicative proceedings—Surrender.
HTMLPDF 18.64.024Actions by the commission against a license—Civil fines.
HTMLPDF 18.64.026Actions by the commission against a license—Actions following licensee's failure or refusal to comply.
HTMLPDF 18.64.028Actions by the commission against a license—Petition for reinstatement.
HTMLPDF 18.64.040Examination fee.
HTMLPDF 18.64.043Pharmacy license—Fee—Display—Declaration of ownership and location—Penalties.
HTMLPDF 18.64.044Shopkeeper's registration—Penalty—Ephedrine/pseudoephedrine/phenylpropanolamine.
HTMLPDF 18.64.045Manufacturer's license—Fees—Display—Declaration of ownership and location—Penalties.
HTMLPDF 18.64.046Wholesaler's license—Required—Authority of licensee—Penalty—Ephedrine/pseudoephedrine/phenylpropanolamine.
HTMLPDF 18.64.047Itinerant vendor's or peddler's registration—Fee—Penalties—Ephedrine/pseudoephedrine/phenylpropanolamine.
HTMLPDF 18.64.050Duplicate for lost or destroyed license or certificate—Certified documents—Fees.
HTMLPDF 18.64.080Licensing of pharmacists—Registration of interns—Prerequisites—Examinations—Reciprocity—Fees—Renewal.
HTMLPDF 18.64.140License—Fees—Display—Inactive license.
HTMLPDF 18.64.160Disciplinary action against pharmacist's and intern's licenses—Grounds.
HTMLPDF 18.64.162Unlicensed practice—Uniform Disciplinary Act.
HTMLPDF 18.64.163Uniform Disciplinary Act.
HTMLPDF 18.64.165Additional actions against license.
HTMLPDF 18.64.205Retired active license status.
HTMLPDF 18.64.245Prescription records—Digital or electronic form—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 18.64.246Prescriptions—Labels—Cover or cap to meet safety standards—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 18.64.250Unlawful practices—Penalty for violations—Exceptions.
HTMLPDF 18.64.253Students practicing pharmacy—Rules.
HTMLPDF 18.64.255Authorized practices.
HTMLPDF 18.64.257Prescription of dialysis devices and legend drugs by dialysis programs.
HTMLPDF 18.64.265Schedule II controlled substance—Partial fill permitted.
HTMLPDF 18.64.270Responsibility for drug purity—Compounding—Adulteration—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 18.64.275Limitations on liability for dispensing of prescription.
HTMLPDF 18.64.280General penalty.
HTMLPDF 18.64.310Department of health—Powers and duties.
HTMLPDF 18.64.350Nonresident pharmacies—Findings.
HTMLPDF 18.64.360Nonresident pharmacies—Definition—Requirements—Exemption—Reciprocity with Canadian pharmacies.
HTMLPDF 18.64.370Nonresident pharmacies—License required—Application—Renewal.
HTMLPDF 18.64.380Nonresident pharmacies—Information required—Inspection.
HTMLPDF 18.64.400Nonresident pharmacies—Definition—Advertising.
HTMLPDF 18.64.410Nonresident pharmacies—Rules.
HTMLPDF 18.64.420Nonresident pharmacies—Information confidential—Exceptions.
HTMLPDF 18.64.430Cost disclosure to health care providers.
HTMLPDF 18.64.450Health care entity—License requirements for legend drugs and controlled substances—Exception.
HTMLPDF 18.64.460Health care entity—License fee—Requirements—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 18.64.470Health care entity—Records.
HTMLPDF 18.64.480Waiver request to allow importation of prescription drugs from Canada.
HTMLPDF 18.64.490Waiver request to authorize the state to license Canadian, United Kingdom, Irish, and other nondomestic prescription drug wholesalers under RCW 18.64.046—Implementation—Rules.
HTMLPDF 18.64.500Tamper-resistant prescription pads or paper.
HTMLPDF 18.64.510Limitation on authority to regulate or establish standards regarding a jail.
HTMLPDF 18.64.520Dispensing of drug other than controlled substance—Supply limit.
HTMLPDF 18.64.530Topical ophthalmic products—Early refills authorized.
HTMLPDF 18.64.540Provision of drugs to ambulance or aid services associated with providing emergency medical services to patients.
HTMLPDF 18.64.550Chart order as prescription—Long-term care facilities and hospice programs.
HTMLPDF 18.64.560Nursing homes and hospice programs—Emergency drug kits—Supplemental dose kits.
HTMLPDF 18.64.570Long-term care facilities and hospice programs—Legend drug resupply—Shared pharmacy services—Unused drugs.
HTMLPDF 18.64.580Long-term care pharmacies—Ratio of pharmacists to pharmacy technicians—Standards.
HTMLPDF 18.64.590Long-term care facilities and hospice programs—Commission authority.
HTMLPDF 18.64.600Opioid use disorder medications—Remote dispensing sites—Registration—Rules—Fees.
HTMLPDF 18.64.610Prescription drug return and reuse—Rules.
HTMLPDF 18.64.920Repealer—1935 c 98.

Notes:

AIDS education and training: Chapter 70.24 RCW.
Authority of pharmacy quality assurance commission to regulate packaging of drugs and cosmetics under poison prevention act: RCW 70A.425.140.
Dentists, filling prescriptions issued by: RCW 18.32.685.
Drugs and cosmetics: Chapter 69.04 RCW.
Health professions account—Fees credited—Requirements for biennial budget request—Unappropriated funds: RCW 43.70.320.
Licensee and registrant requirements regarding ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine: RCW 69.43.160.
Poisons and dangerous drugs, dispensing and sale: Chapter 69.40 RCW.
Rebating by vendors of medical supplies prohibited: Chapter 19.68 RCW.
Regulation of practice of medicine and surgery, sale of drugs and medicines: State Constitution Art. 20 s 2.
Unlawful to refill trademarked containers: RCW 19.76.110.