# Title 61 — State Board of Pharmacy

## Article 61-04 — Professional Practice

## Chapter 61-04-02 — Physician Exemption

### § 61-04-02-01. Physician exemption.

The exemption contained in subsection 1 of North Dakota Century Code section 43-15-02 for a
duly licensed practitioner of medicine supplying the practitioner's own patients with such remedies as
the practitioner may desire shall exempt such practitioners who dispense remedies as an incident to
the practice of their profession for a patient's immediate needs, which would be those drugs required
for a seventy-two-hour time period, full course of antibiotic treatment, start pack of prepackaged
medications, or up to a ten-day supply of initial therapy of a maintenance medication that should be
started immediately, but shall not exempt such a practitioner who regularly engages in dispensing such
remedies to the practitioner's patients for which such patients are charged either separately or together
with charges for other professional services, from recordkeeping, dispensing, labeling, counseling as
required by North Dakota Century Code section 43-15-31.2, patient profile system as required by North
Dakota Century Code section 43-15-31.1, and all other requirements of the practice of pharmacy as set
forth in this chapter or by federal and state laws as they pertain to the regulation of the practice of
pharmacy. Documented charts shall meet the requirements of the patient profile system.
History: Effective August 1, 1983; amended effective October 1, 2014.
General Authority: NDCC 19-02.1-02(2), 19-02.1-14, 28-32-02, 43-15-10(12), 43-15-10(14)
Law Implemented: NDCC 19-02.1-02(2), 19-02.1-14, 28-32-03, 43-15-10(12), 43-15-10(14)
