37-7-101. Definitions. Unless the context requires otherwise, in parts 1 through 3 of this chapter, the following definitions apply:
     (1) "Board" means the board of pharmacy provided for in 2-15-1843.
     (2) "Chemical" means medicinal or industrial substances, whether simple, compound, or obtained through the process of the science and art of chemistry, whether of organic or inorganic origin.
     (3) "Commercial purposes" means the ordinary purposes of trade, agriculture, industry, and commerce, exclusive of the practices of medicine and pharmacy.
     (4) "Department" means the department of commerce provided for in Title 2, chapter 15, part 18.
     (5) (a) "Drug" means:
     (i) articles recognized in the official United States Pharmacopoeia/National Formulary or a supplement;
     (ii) articles intended for use in diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in people or other animals;
     (iii) articles, other than food, intended to affect the structure or function of the body of an individual or other animal; and
     (iv) articles intended for use as a component of an article specified in subsection (i), (ii), or (iii).
     (b) "Drug" does not include devices or their components, parts, or accessories.
     (6) "Intern" means a natural person licensed by the department to prepare, compound, dispense, and sell drugs, medicines, chemicals, and poisons under the supervision of a registered and licensed pharmacist.
     (7) "Medicine" means a remedial agent which has the property of curing, preventing, treating, or mitigating diseases or which is used for this purpose.
     (8) "Person" includes an individual, partnership, corporation, or association.
     (9) "Pharmacist" means a natural person licensed by the department to prepare, compound, dispense, and sell drugs, medicines, chemicals, and poisons and who may affix to the person's name the term "R.Ph.".
     (10) "Pharmacy" means an established place registered by the department of commerce in which prescriptions, drugs requiring a prescription, medicines, chemicals, and poisons are compounded, dispensed, vended, or sold.
     (11) "Pharmacy technician or auxiliary" means an individual who assists a pharmacist in the practice of pharmacy pursuant to an approved utilization plan.
     (12) "Poison" means a substance which, when introduced into the system, either directly or by absorption, produces violent, morbid, or fatal changes or which destroys living tissue with which it comes in contact.
     (13) "Prescription" means an order given individually for the person for whom prescribed, directly from the prescriber to the furnisher or indirectly to the furnisher, by means of an order signed by the prescriber and bearing the name and address of the prescriber, the prescriber's license classification, the name of the patient, the name and the quantity of the drug or drugs prescribed, the directions for use and the date of its issue. These stipulations apply to both written and telephoned prescriptions.
     (14) "Utilization plan" means a plan under which a pharmacist may use the services of a pharmacy technician or auxiliary in the practice of pharmacy to perform tasks that:
     (a) do not require the exercise of the pharmacist's independent professional judgment; and
     (b) are verified by the pharmacist.
     (15) "Wholesale" means a sale for the purpose of resale.

     History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 175, L. 1939; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 33, L. 1951; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 241, L. 1971; amd. Sec. 148, Ch. 350, L. 1974; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 439, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 66-1502; amd. Sec. 7, Ch. 22, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 379, L. 1981; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 247, L. 1983; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 219, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 36, Ch. 429, L. 1995.