37-7-201. Organization -- powers and duties. (1) The board shall meet at least once a year to transact its business. The board shall annually elect from its members a president, vice-president, and secretary.
     (2) The board shall:
     (a) regulate the practice of pharmacy in this state subject to this chapter;
     (b) determine the minimum equipment necessary in and for a pharmacy;
     (c) regulate, under therapeutic classification, the sale of drugs, medicines, chemicals, and poisons and their labeling;
     (d) regulate the quality of drugs and medicines dispensed in this state, using the United States Pharmacopoeia/National Formulary or revisions thereof as the standards;
     (e) request the department to enter and inspect, at reasonable times, places where drugs, medicines, chemicals, or poisons are sold, vended, given away, compounded, dispensed, or manufactured. It is a misdemeanor for a person to refuse to permit or otherwise prevent the department from entering these places and making an inspection.
     (f) regulate the practice of interns under national standards;
     (g) make rules for the conduct of its business;
     (h) perform other duties and exercise other powers as this chapter requires;
     (i) adopt and authorize the department to publish rules for carrying out and enforcing parts 1 through 3 of this chapter.
     (3) The department shall:
     (a) license, register, and examine, subject to 37-1-101, applicants whom the board considers qualified under this chapter;
     (b) license pharmacies and certain stores under this chapter;
     (c) license wholesale drug distributors;
     (d) issue certificates of "certified pharmacy" under this chapter; and
     (e) establish and collect license fees.

     History: Ap. p. Sec. 644, Pol. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 1626, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 5, Ch. 134, L. 1915; re-en. Sec. 3174, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3174, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 175, L. 1939; amd. Sec. 25, Ch. 93, L. 1969; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 241, L. 1971; amd. Sec. 150, Ch. 350, L. 1974; Sec. 66-1504, R.C.M. 1947; Ap. p. Sec. 646, Pol. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 1628, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 7, Ch. 134, L. 1915; re-en. Sec. 3176, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3176, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 6, Ch. 175, L. 1939; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 81, L. 1969; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 168, L. 1971; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 241, L. 1971; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 71, L. 1974; amd. Sec. 152, Ch. 350, L. 1974; amd. Sec. 7, Ch. 533, L. 1977; Sec. 66-1506, R.C.M. 1947; R.C.M. 1947, 66-1504(1), (2)(a) thru (2)(f), (2)(h) thru (2)(j), (3), 66-1506(part); amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 379, L. 1981; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 134, L. 1991.