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<chapter num="06" heading="Reporting Pharmacist's, Pharmacy Intern's, and Pharmacy Technician's Mailing Address and Location of Employment" title_num="10" subtitle_num="34">
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".01" heading="Scope.">
    <text>This chapter applies to each pharmacist, pharmacy intern, and pharmacy technician licensed or registered by the Maryland Board of Pharmacy.</text>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" heading="Definitions.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>In these regulations, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>Terms Defined.</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>“Board” means the State Board of Pharmacy.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>“Mailing address” means the address the pharmacist or pharmacy technician specifies that the Board use when communicating with the pharmacist or pharmacy technician.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>“Primary employment location” means the establishment where the pharmacist or pharmacy technician is employed on a regular basis or works most often.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".03" heading="Mailing Address.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>Each licensed pharmacist, pharmacy intern, and registered pharmacy technician shall report to the Board the pharmacist’s, pharmacy intern’s, or pharmacy technician’s current mailing address on the pharmacist’s, pharmacy intern’s, or pharmacy technician’s biennial license or registration renewal form.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>The mailing address:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>May be the pharmacist’s residence address;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Shall be the pharmacy intern’s residence address; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Shall be the pharmacy technician’s residence address.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="C.">
      <text>Within 30 days of the date a pharmacist, pharmacy intern, or pharmacy technician changes the pharmacist’s, pharmacy intern’s, or pharmacy technician’s mailing address, the pharmacist, pharmacy intern, or pharmacy technician shall notify the Board in writing of any change in the information in §A of this regulation.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".04" heading="Place of Employment.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>This regulation applies only to pharmacists, pharmacy interns, and pharmacy technicians employed in Maryland.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>Each licensed pharmacist, registered pharmacy intern, and registered pharmacy technician shall report to the Board the pharmacist’s, pharmacy intern’s, or pharmacy technician’s place of employment on the pharmacist, pharmacy intern, or pharmacy technician biennial license or registration renewal form. A pharmacist, pharmacy intern, or pharmacy technician employed at more than one location shall report the primary employment location at the time the renewal form is submitted to the Board.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="C.">
      <text>Within 30 days of a change in the pharmacist’s, pharmacy intern’s, or pharmacy technician’s primary employment location, the pharmacist, pharmacy intern, or pharmacy technician shall notify the Board in writing of any change in the information required by this regulation. If the pharmacist’s, pharmacy intern’s, or pharmacy technician’s primary employment location changes and the pharmacist’s, pharmacy intern’s, or pharmacy technician’s new primary employment location is owned by the same corporation, partnership, or individual owner, the pharmacist, pharmacy intern, or pharmacy technician is not required to report the change except when completing a biennial license or registration renewal form.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".05" heading="Grounds for Disciplinary Action.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>A pharmacist’s failure to report the information required in Regulations .03 and .04 of this chapter or failure to provide the Board with complete, up-to-date, and accurate information shall constitute grounds for action under Health Occupations Article, §12-313(b)(25), Annotated Code of Maryland, and may, in appropriate cases, constitute grounds for action under Health Occupations Article, §12-313(b)(1), (7), or (8), Annotated Code of Maryland.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>A pharmacy technician’s failure to report the information required in Regulations .03 and .04 of this chapter or failure to provide the Board with complete, up-to-date, and accurate information shall constitute grounds for action under Health Occupations Article, §12-6B-09(25), Annotated Code of Maryland, and may, in appropriate cases, constitute grounds for action under Health Occupations Article, §12-6B-09(2), (7), or (8), Annotated Code of Maryland.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="C.">
      <text>A pharmacy intern’s failure to report the information required in Regulations .03 and .04 of this chapter or failure to provide the Board with complete, up-to-date, and accurate information:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Shall constitute grounds for action under Health Occupations Article, §12-6D-11(18), Annotated Code of Maryland; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>May, in appropriate cases, constitute grounds for action under Health Occupations Article, §12-6D-11(3), (7), or (8), Annotated Code of Maryland.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <annotations>
    <annotation type="Authority">Health Occupations Article, §12-205, Annotated Code of Maryland</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Effective date: July 25, 1980 (7:15 Md. R. 1425)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Chapter, Posting of Prescription Prices and Services, repealed effective April 9, 1984 (11:7 Md. R. 625)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulations .01 — .05, Reporting Pharmacist's Mailing Address and Location of Employment, adopted effective February 19, 1990 (17:3 Md. R. 298)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulations .01 — .05, Reporting Pharmacist's and Pharmacy Technician's Mailing Address and Location of Employment amended effective March 18, 2013 (40:5 Md. R. 411)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulations .01, .03, .04, and .05, Reporting Pharmacist's, Pharmacy Intern's, and Pharmacy Technician's Mailing Address and Location of Employment amended effective  July 1, 2015 (42:7 Md. R. 569)</annotation>
  </annotations>
</chapter>