O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 16-13-48 (2019)

Cooperative arrangements with federal and other state agencies

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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(a) The State Board of Pharmacy shall cooperate with federal and other state agencies in discharging its responsibilities concerning traffic in controlled substances and in suppressing the abuse of controlled substances. To this end, it may:

(1) Arrange for the exchange of information among governmental officials concerning the use and abuse of controlled substances;

(2) Coordinate and cooperate in training programs concerning controlled substance law enforcement at local and state levels;

(3) Cooperate with the bureau by establishing a centralized unit to accept, catalogue, file, and collect statistics, including records, other than medical treatment records, of drug dependent persons and other controlled substance law offenders within the state, and make the information available for federal, state, and local law enforcement purposes; and

(4) Conduct or promote programs of eradication aimed at destroying wild or illicit growth of plant species from which controlled substances may be extracted.

(b) Results, information, and evidence received from the bureau relating to the regulatory functions of this article, including results of inspections conducted by it, may be relied and acted upon by the State Board of Pharmacy or drug agents in the exercise of its or their regulatory functions under this article.

History

Code 1933, § 79A-827, enacted by Ga.

L. 1967, p. 296, § 1; Ga. L. 1974, p. 221, § 1; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 16.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. 25 Am. Jur. 2d, Drugs and Controlled Substances, § 216 et seq. U.L.A. Uniform Controlled Substances Act (U.L.A.) § 504.

ALR. Federal prosecutions based on manufacture, importation, transportation, possession, sale, or use of LSD, 22 A.L.R.3d 1325.