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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="12-6D-11" title_number="12" title_name="Pharmacists and Pharmacies" subtitle_number="6D" subtitle_name="Registered Pharmacy Interns">
  <text>Subject to the hearing provision of § 12–315 of this title, the Board may deny a pharmacy intern’s registration to any applicant, reprimand a registered pharmacy intern, place any pharmacy intern’s registration on probation, or suspend or revoke a pharmacy intern’s registration if the applicant or pharmacy intern registrant:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>Performs an act that is restricted to a licensed pharmacist;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>Practices pharmacy without the direct supervision of a licensed pharmacist;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>Fraudulently or deceptively obtains or attempts to obtain a pharmacy intern’s registration for the applicant or assists or attempts to assist another in fraudulently or deceptively obtaining a pharmacy intern’s registration;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>Fraudulently uses a pharmacy intern’s registration;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="5">
    <text>Knowingly aids an unauthorized individual to practice pharmacy or to represent that the individual is a licensed pharmacist or registered pharmacy intern;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="6">
    <text>Practices pharmacy while:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>Under the influence of alcohol; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>Using any narcotic or controlled dangerous substance, as defined in § 5–101 of the Criminal Law Article, or other drug that is in excess of therapeutic amounts or without valid medical indication;</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="7">
    <text>Willfully makes or files a false report or record as part of the registered pharmacy intern’s duties or employment;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="8">
    <text>Willfully fails to file or record any report that is required by law;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="9">
    <text>Willfully impedes or obstructs the filing or recording of any report that is required by law;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="10">
    <text>Willfully induces another to fail to file or record any report that is required by law;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="11">
    <text>Provides or causes to be provided to any authorized prescriber prescription forms that bear the name, address, or other means of identification of a licensed pharmacist or pharmacy;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="12">
    <text>Knowingly aids a licensed pharmacist in dispensing any drug, device, or diagnostic for which a prescription is required without a written, oral, or electronically transmitted prescription from an authorized prescriber;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="13">
    <text>Unless an authorized prescriber authorizes the refill, refills a prescription for any drug, device, or diagnostic for which a prescription is required;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="14">
    <text>Is physically or mentally incompetent;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="15">
    <text>Pleaded guilty or nolo contendere to, or has been found guilty of, a felony or a crime involving moral turpitude, regardless of whether:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>An adjudication of guilt or sentencing or imposition of sentence is withheld; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>Any appeal or other proceeding is pending regarding the matter;</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="16">
    <text>Violates any provision of this title;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="17">
    <text>Is disciplined by a licensing, registering, or disciplinary authority of any state or country or convicted or disciplined by a court of any state or country for an act that would be grounds for disciplinary action under the Board’s disciplinary statutes;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="18">
    <text>Violates any regulation adopted by the Board;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="19">
    <text>Refuses, withholds from, denies, or discriminates against an individual with regard to the provision of professional services for which the registered pharmacy intern is registered and qualified to render because the individual is HIV positive;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="20">
    <text>Participates in any activity that is grounds for Board action under § 12–313, § 12–409, or §12–6B–09 of this title;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="21">
    <text>Provides or causes to be provided confidential patient information to any person without first having obtained the patient’s consent, as required by § 12–403(b)(13) of this title and by Title 4, Subtitle 3 of the Health – General Article; or</text>
  </level>
  <level label="22">
    <text>Fails to cooperate with a lawful investigation conducted by the Board or the Office of Controlled Substances Administration.</text>
  </level>
</section>
