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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".03" citation="COMAR 10.34.14.03" title_num="10" subtitle_num="34" chapter_num="14" heading="Notification of Closing of a Pharmacy.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>At least 14 days before a licensed pharmacy’s anticipated date of closing, the pharmacy permit holder shall:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Notify the:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>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;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Office of Controlled Substances Administration by certified mail, return receipt requested, of the day on which the licensed pharmacy will close;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>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</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>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</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Request a closing inspection date.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>The notice shall contain the:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>Anticipated date of closing;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Name and location of the pharmacy to which the closing pharmacy will transfer patient prescriptions and records; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>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.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>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.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>