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Session Laws, 1997
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Ch. 391

1997 LAWS OF MARYLAND

BY adding to

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments
Section 300(g-2) 305
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1996 Replacement Volume)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 27 - Crimes and Punishments

300.

         (a) "Prescription drugs" shall mean and include any drug intended for use by man
which, because of its toxicity or other potentiality for harmful effect, or the method of its

use, or the collateral measures necessary for its use, bears a cautionary label warning
against di
spensing without a prescription under federal law or is designated by the
D
epartment as not safe for use except under the supervision of a practitioner licensed by
law to administer such drugs. Provided that this term shall not mean any controlled
dangerou
s substance as defined in this subheading.

(g-1) Except as authorized by this subheading it is unlawful for any person to:

(1) Manufacture, distribute, or possess with intent to distribute a
prescription drug.

(2) Obtain or attempt to obtain a prescription drug by (i) fraud, deceit,
misrepresentation, or
subterfuge, (ii) the forgery or alteration of a prescription or a
writt
en order, (iii) the concealment of any material fact or the use of false name or
addres
s, (iv) falsely assuming the title of or representing himself to be a manufacturer;
distributor or practitioner, or (v) making or uttering any false or forged prescription or
written ord
er.

(3) Affix any false or forged label to a package; container, or other
receptacle containing any prescription drug, or to omit, remove, alter, or
obliterate any
label or symbol on a pr
escription drug as required by federal, State, or local law.

(G-2) 305.

(A) IN THIS SECTION, "PRESCRIPTION DRUG" HAS THE MEANING STATED IN §
300 OF THIS SUBHEADING.

(B) SUBJECT TO SUBSECTION (C) OF THIS SECTION, IN A CRIMINAL CASE
INVOLVING FORGERY OF A PRESCRIPTION UNDER THIS SUBHEADING. EVIDENCE IN
THE FORM OF AN AFFIDAVIT BY A PRACTITIONER GIVEN UNDER OATH SUBJECT TO
THE PENALTY OF PERJURY THAT IS ATTACHED TO A COPY OF A PRESCRIPTION AND
DECLARES THE FORGERY OR ALTERATION OF THE PRESCRIPTION AND DESCRIBES
IN DETAIL THOSE PARTS OF THE PRESCRIPTION THAT HAVE BEEN FORGED AND
WHETHER THERE IS A PATIENT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE INDIVIDUAL NAMED
ON THE PRESCRIPTION AND THE PRACTITIONER MAY BE INTRODUCED AS PROOF
EVIDENCE THAT:

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