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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="12-513" title_number="12" title_name="Pharmacists and Pharmacies" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Practice of Pharmacy and Operation of Pharmacies">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Before the closing of a pharmacy for more than 7 consecutive days, at least 14 days before the anticipated closing of the pharmacy, the owner of the pharmacy shall provide notice of the closing by:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Posting a notice:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>That is conspicuously positioned in the pharmacy and readable by pharmacy customers; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>If applicable, on the pharmacy’s website; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Providing written and verbal notice to each customer who picks up a prescription or refill.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Each notice shall indicate:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The date of the anticipated closing of the pharmacy, if available;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The name of the pharmacy to which the closing pharmacy will transfer pharmacy customers’ prescriptions and records; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>That a pharmacy customer may request the closing pharmacy to send the pharmacy customer’s prescriptions and records to another pharmacy.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Board shall adopt regulations to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Define “closing of a pharmacy”; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Provide exceptions to the requirements of this section.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
