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§21-28-1.02  Definitions. –


Published: 2015

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TITLE 21

Food And Drugs

CHAPTER 21-28

Uniform Controlled Substances Act

ARTICLE 21-28-1.01

Short Title and Definitions

SECTION 21-28-1.02



   § 21-28-1.02  Definitions. –

Unless the context otherwise requires, the words and phrases as defined in this

section are used in this chapter in the sense given them in the following

definitions:



   (1) "Administer" refers to the direct application of

controlled substances to the body of a patient or research subject by:



   (i) A practitioner, or, in his or her presence by his or her

authorized agent; or



   (ii) The patient or research subject at the direction and in

the presence of the practitioner whether the application is by injection,

inhalation, ingestion, or any other means.



   (2) "Agent" means an authorized person who acts on behalf of

or at the direction of a manufacturer, wholesaler, distributor, or dispenser;

except that these terms do not include a common or contract carrier or

warehouse operator, when acting in the usual and lawful course of the carrier's

or warehouse operator's business.



   (3) "Apothecary" means a registered pharmacist as defined by

the laws of this state and, where the context requires, the owner of a licensed

pharmacy or other place of business where controlled substances are compounded

or dispensed by a registered pharmacist; and includes registered assistant

pharmacists as defined by existing law, but nothing in this chapter shall be

construed as conferring on a person who is not registered as a pharmacist any

authority, right, or privilege that is not granted to him or her by the

pharmacy laws of the state.



   (4) "Automated data processing system" means a system

utilizing computer software and hardware for the purposes of record keeping.



   (5) "Computer" means programmable electronic device capable

of multi-functions, including, but not limited to, storage, retrieval, and

processing of information.



   (6) "Control" means to add a drug or other substance or

immediate precursor to a schedule under this chapter, whether by transfer from

another schedule or otherwise.



   (7) "Controlled substance" means a drug, substance, immediate

precursor, or synthetic drug in schedules I – V of this chapter. The term

shall not include distilled spirits, wine, or malt beverages, as those terms

are defined or used in chapter 1 of title 3, nor tobacco.



   (8) "Counterfeit substance" means a controlled substance

which, or the container or labeling of which, without authorization bears the

trademark, trade name, or other identifying mark, imprint, number, or device,

or any likeness of them, of a manufacturer, distributor, or dispenser, other

than the person or persons who in fact manufactured, distributed, or dispensed

the substance and which thereby falsely purports or is represented to be the

product of, or to have been distributed by, the other manufacturer,

distributor, or dispenser, or which substance is falsely purported to be or

represented to be one of the controlled substances by a manufacturer,

distributor, or dispenser.



   (9) "CRT" means cathode ray tube used to impose visual

information on a screen.



   (10) "Deliver" or "delivery" means the actual, constructive,

or attempted transfer of a controlled substance or imitation controlled

substance, whether or not there exists an agency relationship.



   (11) "Department" means the department of health of this

state.



   (12) "Depressant or stimulant drug" means:



   (i) A drug which contains any quantity of:



   (A) Barbituric acid or derivatives, compounds, mixtures, or

preparations of barbituric acid; and



   (B) "Barbiturate" or "barbiturates" includes all hypnotic

and/or somnifacient drugs, whether or not derivatives of barbituric acid,

except that this definition shall not include bromides and narcotics.



   (ii) A drug which contains any quantity of:



   (A) Amphetamine or any of its optical isomers;



   (B) Any salt of amphetamine and/or desoxyephedrine or any

salt of an optical isomer of amphetamine and/or desoxyephedrine, or any

compound, mixture, or preparation of them.



   (iii) A drug which contains any quantity of coca leaves.

"Coca leaves" includes cocaine, or any compound, manufacture, salt, derivative,

mixture, or preparation of coca leaves, except derivatives of coca leaves,

which do not contain cocaine, ecgonine, or substance from which cocaine or

ecgonine may be synthesized or made.



   (iv) Any other drug or substance which contains any quantity

of a substance which the attorney general of the United States, or the director

of health, after investigation, has found to have, or by regulation designates

as having, a potential for abuse because of its depressant or stimulant effect

on the central nervous system.



   (13) "Director" means the director of health.



   (14) "Dispense" means to deliver, distribute, leave with,

give away, or dispose of a controlled substance to the ultimate user or human

research subject by or pursuant to the lawful order of a practitioner,

including the packaging, labeling, or compounding necessary to prepare the

substance for that delivery.



   (15) "Dispenser" is a practitioner who delivers a controlled

substance to the ultimate user or human research subject.



   (16) "Distribute" means to deliver (other than by

administering or dispensing) a controlled substance or an imitation controlled

substance and includes actual constructive, or attempted transfer.

"Distributor" means a person who so delivers a controlled substance or an

imitation controlled substance.



   (17) "Downtime" means that period of time when a computer is

not operable.



   (18) "Drug addicted person" means a person who exhibits a

maladaptive pattern of behavior resulting from drug use, including one or more

of the following: impaired control over drug use; compulsive use; and/or

continued use despite harm, and craving.



   (19) "Drug Enforcement Administration" means the Drug

Enforcement Administration United States Department of Justice or its successor.



   (20) "Federal law" means the Comprehensive Drug Abuse

Prevention and Control Act of 1970, (84 stat. 1236)(see generally 21 U.S.C.

§ 801 et seq.), and all regulations pertaining to that federal act.



   (21) "Hardware" means the fixed component parts of a computer.



   (22) "Hospital" means an institution as defined in chapter 17

of title 23.



   (23) "Imitation controlled substance" means a substance that

is not a controlled substance, which by dosage unit, appearance (including

color, shape, size, and markings), or by representations made, would lead a

reasonable person to believe that the substance is a controlled substance and,

which imitation controlled substances contain substances which if ingested,

could be injurious to the health of a person. In those cases when the

appearance of the dosage unit is not reasonably sufficient to establish that

the substance is an "imitation controlled substance" (for example in the case

of powder or liquid), the court or authority concerned should consider, in

addition to all other logically relevant factors, the following factors as

related to "representations made" in determining whether the substance is an

"imitation controlled substance":



   (i) Statement made by an owner, possessor, transferor,

recipient, or by anyone else in control of the substance concerning the nature

of the substance, or its use or effect.



   (ii) Statements made by the owner, possessor, or transferor,

to the recipient that the substance may be resold for substantial profit.



   (iii) Whether the substance is packaged in a manner

reasonably similar to packaging of illicit controlled substances.



   (iv) Whether the distribution or attempted distribution

included an exchange of or demand for money or other property as consideration,

and whether the amount of the consideration was substantially greater than the

reasonable value of the non-controlled substance.



   (24) "Immediate precursor" means a substance:



   (i) Which the director of health has found to be and by

regulation designated as being the principal compound used, or produced

primarily for use, in the manufacture of a controlled substance;



   (ii) Which is an immediate chemical intermediary used or

likely to be used in the manufacture of those controlled substances; and



   (iii) The control of which is necessary to prevent, curtail,

or limit the manufacture of that controlled substance.



   (25) "Laboratory" means a laboratory approved by the

department of health as proper to be entrusted with controlled substances and

the use of controlled substances for scientific and medical purposes and for

the purposes of instruction.



   (26) "Marijuana" means all parts of the plant cannabis sativa

L., whether growing or not; the seeds of the plant; the resin extracted from

any part of the plant; and every compound, manufacture, salt, derivative,

mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds or resin, but shall not include

the mature stalks of the plant, fiber produced from the stalks, oil or cake

made from the seeds of the plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt,

derivative, mixture, or preparation of mature stalks, (except the resin

extracted from it), fiber, oil or cake, or the sterilized seed from the plant

which is incapable of germination.



   (27) "Manufacture" means the production, preparation,

propagation, cultivation, compounding, or processing of a drug or other

substance, including an imitation controlled substance, either directly or

indirectly or by extraction from substances of natural origin, or independently

by means of chemical synthesis or by a combination of extraction and chemical

synthesis and includes any packaging or repackaging of the substance or

labeling or relabeling of its container in conformity with the general laws of

this state except by a practitioner as an incident to his or her administration

or dispensing of the drug or substance in the course of his or her professional

practice.



   (28) "Manufacturer" means a person who manufactures but does

not include an apothecary who compounds controlled substances to be sold or

dispensed on prescriptions.



   (29) "Narcotic drug" means any of the following, whether

produced directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of vegetable

origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis or by a combination of

extraction and chemical synthesis:



   (i) Opium and opiates.



   (ii) A compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, or

preparation of opium or opiates.



   (iii) A substance (and any compound, manufacture, salt,

derivative, or preparation of it) which is chemically identical with any of the

substances referred to in paragraphs (i) and (ii) of this subdivision.



   (iv) Any other substance which the attorney general of the

United States, or his or her successor, or the director of health, after

investigation, has found to have, and by regulation designates as having, a

potential for abuse similar to opium and opiates.



   (30) "Official written order" means an order written on a

form provided for that purpose by the Drug Enforcement Administration under any

laws of the United States making provision for an official form, if order forms

are authorized and required by federal law, and if no order form is provided

then on an official form provided for that purpose by the director of health.



   (31) "Opiate" means any substance having an addiction-forming

or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine or being capable of

conversion into a drug having addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining

liability.



   (32) "Opium poppy" means the plant of the species papaver

somniferum L., except the seeds of the plant.



   (33) "Ounce" means an avoirdupois ounce as applied to solids

and semi-solids, and a fluid ounce as applied to liquids.



   (34) "Person" means any corporation, association,

partnership, or one or more individuals.



   (35) "Physical dependence" means a state of adaptation that

is manifested by a drug class specific withdrawal syndrome that can be produced

by abrupt cessation, rapid dose reduction, decreasing blood level of the drug,

and/or administration of an antagonist.



   (36) "Poppy straw" means all parts, except the seeds, of the

opium poppy, after mowing.



   (37) "Practitioner" means:



   (i) A physician, osteopath, dentist, chiropodist,

veterinarian, scientific investigator, or other person licensed, registered or

permitted to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect to or to

administer a controlled substance in the course of professional practice or

research in this state.



   (ii) A pharmacy, hospital, or other institution licensed,

registered or permitted to distribute, dispense, conduct research with respect

to, or to administer a controlled substance in the course of professional

practice or research in this state.



   (38) "Printout" means a hard copy produced by computer that

is readable without the aid of any special device.



   (39) "Production" includes the manufacture, planting,

cultivation, growing, or harvesting of a controlled substance.



   (40) "Researcher" means a person authorized by the director

of health to conduct a laboratory as defined in this chapter.



   (41) "Sell" includes sale, barter, gift, transfer, or

delivery in any manner to another, or to offer or agree to do the same.



   (42) "Software" means programs, procedures and storage of

required information data.



   (43) "Synthetic drugs" means any synthetic cannabinoids or

piperazines or any synthetic cathinones as provided for in schedule I.



   (44) "Ultimate user" means a person who lawfully possesses a

controlled substance for his or her own use or for the use of a member of his

or her household, or for administering to an animal owned by him or her or by a

member of his or her household.



   (45) "Wholesaler" means a person who sells, vends, or

distributes at wholesale, or as a jobber, broker agent, or distributor, or for

resale in any manner in this state any controlled substance.



History of Section.

(P.L. 1974, ch. 183, § 2; P.L. 1982, ch. 151, § 1; P.L. 1986, ch.

215, § 1; P.L. 2005, ch. 93, § 1; P.L. 2005, ch. 104, § 1; P.L.

2013, ch. 326, § 1; P.L. 2013, ch. 404, § 1.)