HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2994        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3722

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act Requiring Legible Pharmaceutical Orders and Prescriptions..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

Section 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter 94C of the General Laws, or any other general or special law to the contrary, no pharmacist, retail drug store or dispenser may fill any prescription or pharmaceutical order unless said prescription or pharmaceutical order has been hand printed, typed or electronically generated.

Section 2. Any violation of the above provision shall result in a fine of not more than $1000 per incident and possible revocation of license to dispense.