# COMAR Title 10 — Maryland Department of Health

## Subtitle 34 — Board of Pharmacy

### Chapter 14 — Opening and Closing of Pharmacies

#### Regulation .03 Notification of Closing of a Pharmacy.

*COMAR 10.34.14.03*

A. At least 14 days before a licensed pharmacy’s anticipated date of closing, the pharmacy permit holder shall:

  (1) Notify the:

    (a) Board in writing by certified mail, return receipt requested, or hand delivery to the Board’s office, of the day on which the licensed pharmacy will close;

    (b) Office of Controlled Substances Administration by certified mail, return receipt requested, of the day on which the licensed pharmacy will close;

    (c) Public by conspicuously posting a notice inside the pharmacy and on the pharmacy’s website of the anticipated day on which the pharmacy will close; and

    (d) Pharmacy’s customers who pick up a new or refilled prescription via written and verbal communication of the anticipated day on which the licensed pharmacy will close; and

  (2) Request a closing inspection date.

B. The notice shall contain the:

  (1) Anticipated date of closing;

  (2) Name and location of the pharmacy to which the closing pharmacy will transfer patient prescriptions and records; and

  (3) Manner in which a patient may request the closing pharmacy to send the patient’s prescriptions and records to an alternative pharmacy of the patient’s choice.

C. Upon notification by a pharmacy permit holder of the proposed date on which a licensed pharmacy will close, the Board or its agent shall schedule a closing inspection to be performed within 14 days, excluding federal and State holidays, of the pharmacy’s closing.