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§59-353.7.
§59-353.7.
The State Board of Pharmacy shall have the powers and duties to:
1. Regulate the practice of pharmacy;
2. Regulate the sale of drugs, medicines, chemicals and poisons;
3. Regulate the dispensing of drugs and medicines in all places where
drugs and medicines are compounded or dispensed;
4. Enter and inspect, by its members or by its duly authorized
representatives, any and all places, including premises, equipment,
contents and records, where drugs, medicines, chemicals or poisons are
stored, sold, vended, given away, compounded, dispensed or
manufactured;
5. Employ the number of inspectors necessary to carry out the
provisions of the Oklahoma Pharmacy Act at an annual salary to be
fixed by the Board, and to authorize necessary expenses. Such
inspectors shall have the same powers and authority as that granted to
peace officers by the laws of this state for the purpose of enforcing
the Oklahoma Pharmacy Act. In addition, such inspectors shall have the
authority and the duty to confiscate all drugs, medicines, chemicals
or poisons found to be stored, sold, vended, given away, compounded,
dispensed or manufactured contrary to the provisions of the Oklahoma
Pharmacy Act;
6. Prescribe minimum standards with respect to floor space and other
physical characteristics of pharmacies, as may be reasonably necessary
to the maintenance of professional surroundings and to the protection
of the safety and welfare of the public, and to refuse the issuance of
new or renewal licenses for failure to comply with such standards;
7. Examine and issue appropriate certificates of registration as
pharmacists to all applicants whom it shall deem qualified to be such
under the provisions of the Oklahoma Pharmacy Act;
8. Investigate complaints, hold hearings and subpoena witnesses and
records;
9. Initiate prosecution;
10. Reprimand or place on probation any holder of a certificate,
license or permit; suspend or revoke certificates, licenses or
permits, and levy fines not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00)
for each count for which any holder of a certificate, license or
permit has been convicted in Board hearings;
11. Adopt and establish rules of professional conduct appropriate to
the establishment and maintenance of a high standard of integrity and
dignity in the profession of pharmacy. Such rules shall be subject to
amendment or repeal by the Board as the need may arise;
12. Perform such other duties, exercise such other powers and employ
such other personnel as the provisions and enforcement of the Oklahoma
Pharmacy Act may require; and
13. Make and publish uniform rules such as may be necessary for
carrying out and enforcing the provisions of the Oklahoma Pharmacy
Act, Oklahoma drug laws and rules, federal drug laws and regulations,
and such other areas as in its discretion may be necessary to protect
the health, safety and welfare of the public.
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