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TITLE 22EXAMINING BOARDS
PART 15TEXAS STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY
CHAPTER 281ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURES
SUBCHAPTER AGENERAL PROVISIONS
RULE §281.7Grounds for Discipline for a Pharmacist License

      (ii) the sale, purchase, or trade of a drug or an offer to sell, purchase, or trade a drug by an organization described in subparagraph (C) of this paragraph to a nonprofit affiliate of the organization to the extent otherwise permitted by law;

      (iii) the sale, purchase or trade of a drug or an offer to sell, purchase, or trade a drug among hospitals or other health care entities which are under common control;

      (iv) the sale, purchase, or trade of a drug or an offer to sell, purchase, or trade a drug for emergency medical reasons including the transfer of a drug between pharmacies to alleviate temporary shortages of the drug arising from delays in or interruptions of regular distribution schedules; or

      (v) the dispensing of a prescription drug pursuant to a valid prescription drug order to the extent otherwise permitted by law;

  (28) selling, purchasing, or trading, or offering to sell, purchase, or trade:

    (A) misbranded prescription drugs; or

    (B) prescription drugs beyond the manufacturer's expiration date;

  (29) failing to respond and to provide all requested records within the time specified in an audit of continuing education records under §295.8 of this title (relating to Continuing Education Requirements); or

  (30) allowing an individual whose license to practice pharmacy, either as a pharmacist or a pharmacist-intern, or a pharmacy technician/trainee whose registration has been disciplined by the board, resulting in the license or registration being revoked, canceled, retired, surrendered, denied or suspended, to have access to prescription drugs in a pharmacy.

(b) For the purposes of the Act, §565.001(a)(3), the term "gross immorality" shall include, but not be limited to:

  (1) conduct which is willful, flagrant, and shameless, and which shows a moral indifference to standards of the community;

  (2) engaging in an act which is a felony;

  (3) engaging in an act that constitutes sexually deviant behavior; or

  (4) being required to register with the Department of Public Safety as a sex offender under Chapter 62, Code of Criminal Procedure.

(c) For the purposes of the Act, §565.001(a)(5), the terms "fraud," "deceit," or "misrepresentation" in the practice of pharmacy or in seeking a license to act as a pharmacist shall be defined as follows:

  (1) "Fraud" means an intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of inducing another in reliance upon it to part with some valuable thing belonging to him, or to surrender a legal right, or to issue a license; a false representation of a matter of fact, whether by words or by conduct, by false or misleading allegations, or by concealment of that which should have been disclosed, which deceives or is intended to deceive another.

  (2) "Deceit" means the assertion, as a fact, of that which is not true by any means whatsoever to deceive or defraud another.

  (3) "Misrepresentation" means a manifestation by words or other conduct which is a false representation of a matter of fact.


Source Note: The provisions of this §281.7 adopted to be effective December 30, 1998, 23 TexReg 13073; amended to be effective December 27, 2000, 25 TexReg 12688; amended to be effective March 25, 2007, 32 TexReg 1507; amended to be effective September 9, 2012, 37 TexReg 6915; amended to be effective December 6, 2015, 40 TexReg 8763; amended to be effective June 20, 2019, 44 TexReg 2945; amended to be effective March 5, 2020, 45 TexReg 1419

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