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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="12-604" title_number="12" title_name="Pharmacists and Pharmacies" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Board Regulation of Drugs, Medicines, and Other Products">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Secretary, the Board, or the agents of either, during business hours, may:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Enter any place where drugs, devices, diagnostics, cosmetics, dentifrices, domestic remedies, or toilet articles are manufactured, packaged, stocked, or offered for sale; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Inspect the drugs, devices, diagnostics, cosmetics, dentifrices, domestic remedies, and toilet articles there.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A pharmacy in this State issued a permit by the Board and subject to inspection under subsection (a) of this section shall be inspected annually.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A nonresident pharmacy:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Is subject to inspection under subsection (a) of this section by the Secretary, the Board, or the agents of either; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>On application for and renewal of a pharmacy permit in this State, shall submit a copy of the most recent inspection report resulting from an inspection conducted by the regulatory or licensing agency of the state in which the nonresident pharmacy is located.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A person may not hinder an inspection conducted under this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
