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<section article="gcr" article_name="Criminal Law" number="5-902" title_number="5" title_name="Controlled Dangerous Substances, Prescriptions, and Other Substances" subtitle_number="9" subtitle_name="Criminal and Civil Liability">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Except as otherwise authorized by this title, a person may not:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>omit, remove, alter, or obliterate a symbol required by federal law for a substance governed by this title;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>refuse or fail to make, keep, or furnish a record, notification, order form, statement, invoice, or information required under this title;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>refuse entry into a premises or inspection, if the entry or inspection is authorized under this title; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>as a registrant or other authorized person under this title, keep or maintain a store, shop, warehouse, dwelling house, building, vehicle, boat, aircraft, or other place that is:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>resorted to by persons using a controlled dangerous substance in violation of this title for the purpose of using a controlled dangerous substance; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>used for keeping or selling a controlled dangerous substance in violation of this title.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Unless authorized by the registrant’s registration, a registrant may not manufacture, distribute, or dispense a controlled dangerous substance to another registrant or other authorized person.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>An authorized provider may not prescribe, administer, manufacture, distribute, dispense, or possess a controlled dangerous substance, drug paraphernalia, or controlled paraphernalia except:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>in the course of regular professional duties; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>in conformity with this title and the standards of the authorized provider’s profession relating to controlled dangerous substances, drug paraphernalia, or controlled paraphernalia.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A controlled dangerous substance, drug paraphernalia, or controlled paraphernalia manufactured, distributed, dispensed, possessed, prescribed, or administered in violation of subsection (c) of this section is contraband.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>If the trier of fact specifically finds that a person has knowingly or intentionally violated this section, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to imprisonment not exceeding 2 years or a fine not exceeding $100,000 or both.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>In all other cases, a person who violates this section is subject to a civil penalty not exceeding $50,000.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
