# COMAR Title 10 — Maryland Department of Health

## Subtitle 34 — Board of Pharmacy

### Chapter 15 — Licensure by Reciprocity

**Authority:** Health Occupations Article, §§12-205 and 12-305, Annotated Code of Maryland

**Administrative History:** Effective date: December 3, 1984 (11:24 Md. R. 2069)

**Administrative History:** Chapter recodified from COMAR 10.34.18 to 10.34.15

**Administrative History:** Regulation .01 amended effective April 16, 1990 (17:7 Md. R. 849)

**Administrative History:** Regulation .01 repealed and new Regulation .01 adopted effective April 6, 1998 (25:7 Md. R. 527)

**Administrative History:** Regulation .01 amended as an emergency provision effective January 7, 2022 (49:4 Md. R. 299) ); emergency status expired effective July 6, 2022

**Administrative History:** Regulation .01A amended effective July 1, 2010 (37:10 Md. R. 722)

#### Regulation .01 Requirements.

*COMAR 10.34.15.01*

A. An individual applying for licensure as a pharmacist by reciprocity shall:

  (1) Submit to the Board an application on a form provided by the Board;

  (2) Pay to the Board the fee as specified in COMAR 10.34.09;

  (3) Submit to the Board evidence of completion of at least 520 hours of pharmacy experience after graduation from a school or college of pharmacy approved by the Board or accredited by the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education;

  (4) Pass the MPJE; and

  (5) Pass the exam of oral English competency described in COMAR 10.34.02.

B. The Board shall waive the requirements of §A(5) of this regulation if the candidate for licensure by reciprocity submits to the Board written documentation that the candidate has passed an equivalent oral English competency exam in another state that was required by the other state's licensing procedures.