Indiana § 25-26-23-9 - Program to accept unused medication
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§ 25-26-23-9. Program to accept unused medication
Sec. 9. (a) As used in this section, "unit" means a city, town, or county.
(b) A program to accept unused medication by a business or other entity that complies with applicable state and federal law is not subject to regulation by a unit.
(c) A unit may not do any of the following:
(1) Impose a tax, fee, assessment, or charge on a consumer, business, or other entity to pay for or support a program to accept unused medication in the unit's jurisdiction.
(2) Require a business or other entity to establish, pay for, or operate a program to accept unused medication in the unit's jurisdiction.
(d) Nothing in this section prohibits a unit from using money in the unit's general fund to operate a program to accept unused medication.
As added by P.L.246-2019, SEC.20 and P.L.264-2019, SEC.9.
IC 25-26-24Chapter 24. Central Repository for Controlled Substances Data
25-26-24-1"Board" 25-26-24-2"Committee" 25-26-24-2.5"Controlled substance" 25-26-24-3"Dispense" 25-26-24-4"Ephedrine" 25-26-24-5"Exception report" 25-26-24-6"Identification number" 25-26-24-7"INSPECT" 25-26-24-8"Interoperability" 25-26-24-9"Pain management clinic" 25-26-24-10"Patient" 25-26-24-11"Practitioner" 25-26-24-12"Prescription" 25-26-24-12.5"Prescription drug monitoring program data" 25-26-24-13"Pseudoephedrine" 25-26-24-14"Recipient" 25-26-24-15"Recipient representative" 25-26-24-16"State" 25-26-24-17Program components; recommendations; retail pharmacy 25-26-24-17.5Exceptions to requirement to transmit information to program 25-26-24-18Program requirements; execution of contracts; data; funding 25-26-24-18.5Patient consent 25-26-24-19Confidentiality; disclosure; release of information; applicants; statistical reports; data base; immunity 25-26-24-19.5Release of INSPECT information to a veterinarian 25-26-24-20Certification requirement 25-26-24-21Review by governing board of dissemination of exception reports; investigation 25-26-24-22Rules; standards; intervention and treatment 25-26-24-23Fund 25-26-24-24Committee; members; recommendations; meetings; term; reporting requirement 25-26-24-25Violations 25-26-24-26Rules transferred
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