O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 26-4-204 (2019)

[For effective date, see note.] Prohibited acts

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It shall be unlawful for a person to perform or cause the performance of or aid and abet any of the following acts in this state:

(1) Selling, distributing, or transferring a prescription drug to a person that is not authorized to receive the prescription drug under the law of the jurisdiction in which the person receives the prescription drug;

(2) Failing to maintain or provide pedigrees as required by the board;

(3) Failing to obtain, transfer, or authenticate a pedigree as required by the board;

(4) Providing the board or any of its representatives or any federal official with false or fraudulent records, including, but not limited to falsified pedigrees, or making false or fraudulent statements regarding any matter within the provisions of this article;

(5) Obtaining or attempting to obtain a prescription drug by fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation or engaging in misrepresentation or fraud in the distribution of a prescription drug; and

(6) Except for the wholesale distribution by manufacturers of a prescription drug that has been delivered into commerce pursuant to an application approved under federal law by the Food and Drug Administration, the manufacturing, repackaging, selling, transferring, delivering, holding, or offering for sale of any prescription drug that is adulterated, misbranded, counterfeit, suspected of being counterfeit, or has otherwise been rendered unfit for distribution.

History

Code 1981, § 26-4-204, enacted by Ga. L. 2007, p. 463, § 2/SB 205.

Annotations

Editor’s notes. For information as to the effective date

of this Code section, see the delayed effective date note at the beginning of this article.