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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="21-258" title_number="21" title_name="Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Maryland Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “counterfeit marking tool” means any punch, die, plate, stone, or other thing that is designed to print, imprint, or otherwise reproduce the trademark, trade name, imprint, symbol, or any other identifying mark of a drug, or a likeness of any of these markings, on a drug or on the container of a drug, other than the drug or container to which the marking belongs.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A person may not:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Sell any new drug in violation of § 21-223 of this subtitle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>On the labeling of any drug or in any advertisement relating to the drug, use any representation or suggestion that an application as to the drug is effective under § 21-223 of this subtitle, or that the drug complies with that section;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Fail to maintain and to provide to a health practitioner on request printed matter that relates to prescription drugs, as required under § 21-226 of this subtitle;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Place or cause to be placed on any drug or device or on its container, with intent to defraud, the trade name, imprint, or other identifying mark of any other drug or any likeness of any of these markings;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>With knowledge that the trade name, imprint, or other identifying mark of another drug, or any likeness of any of these markings has been placed on a drug or device or its container in violation of item (4) of this subsection:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Sell, dispense, or dispose of the drug or device or its container;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Cause the drug or device or its container to be sold, dispensed, or disposed of; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Conceal or keep possession, control, or custody of the drug or device or its container with intent to sell, dispense, or dispose of it;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Make, sell, or dispose of any counterfeit marking tool;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Cause any counterfeit marking tool to be made, sold, or disposed of;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>Keep possession, control, or custody of any counterfeit marking tool;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>Conceal any counterfeit marking tool;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>Cause a drug to be a counterfeit drug;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="11">
      <text>Sell or dispense a counterfeit drug or hold a counterfeit drug for sale or dispensing;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="12">
      <text>Except as permitted under § 12-504 of the Health Occupations Article, dispense or cause to be dispensed, without the permission of the prescriber, a different drug or brand of drug instead of the drug or brand of drug prescribed;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="13">
      <text>Prescribe any drug on a written prescription form without clearly identifying the name of the prescriber;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="14">
      <text>Dispense any drug based on a prescription form that lacks the prescriber’s name and signature which:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>May not be made by use of a rubber stamp; but</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Except as otherwise required by State law for a controlled dangerous substance, is not required for oral prescription orders; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="15">
      <text>Fail to provide to the Secretary on request information about prescription drugs, as required under § 21-227 of this subtitle.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
