California Business and Professions Code

§ 4056

BPC § 4056 Effective Oct 10, 1999Div. 2 · Ch. 9 · Art. 3

Statute text

(a)Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter, a licensed hospital that contains 100 beds or fewer, and that does not employ a full-time pharmacist, may purchase drugs at wholesale for administration, under the direction of a physician, or for dispensation by a physician, to persons registered as inpatients of the hospital, to emergency cases under treatment in the hospital, or, under the conditions described in subdivision (f), to persons registered as outpatients in a rural hospital as defined in Section 124840 of the Health and Safety Code. The hospital shall keep records of the kind and amounts of drugs so purchased and administered or dispensed, and the records shall be available for inspection by all properly authorized personnel of the board.

(b)No hospital shall be entitled to the benefits of subdivision (a) until it has obtained a license from the board. Each license shall be issued to a specific hospital and for a specific location.

(c)Each application for a license under this section shall be made on a form furnished by the board. Upon the filing of the application and payment of the fee prescribed in subdivision (a) of Section 4400, the executive officer of the board shall issue a license authorizing the hospital to which it is issued to purchase drugs at wholesale pursuant to subdivision (a). The license shall be renewed annually on or before November 1 of each year upon payment of the renewal fee prescribed in subdivision (b) of Section 4400 and shall not be transferable.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 1999, Ch. 900, Sec. 1. Effective October 10, 1999.