195.030
NARCOTIC NEWS
Drug Law in Missouri 195.030
Rules, procedure--fees--registration required, exceptions, registration, term
not to exceed three years.
The department of health and senior services upon public notice and hearing
pursuant to this section and chapter 536, RSMo, may promulgate rules and
charge reasonable fees relating to the registration and control of the
manufacture, distribution and dispensing of controlled substances within this
state. No rule or portion of a rule promulgated pursuant to the authority of this
chapter shall become effective unless it has been promulgated pursuant to the
provisions of section 536.024, RSMo.

2. No person shall manufacture, compound, mix, cultivate, grow, or by any other
process produce or prepare, distribute, dispense or prescribe any controlled
substance and no person as a wholesaler shall supply the same, without
having first obtained a registration issued by the department of health and
senior services in accordance with rules and regulations promulgated by it. No
registration shall be granted for a term exceeding three years.

3. Persons registered by the department of health pursuant to sections
195.005 to 195.425 to manufacture, distribute, or dispense or conduct research
with controlled substances are authorized to possess, manufacture, distribute
or dispense such substances, including any such activity in the conduct of
research, to the extent authorized by their registration and in conformity with
other provisions of sections 195.005 to 195.425.

4. The following persons shall not be required to register and may lawfully
possess controlled substances pursuant to sections 195.005 to 195.425:

(1) An agent or employee, excluding physicians, dentists, optometrists,
podiatrists or veterinarians, of any registered manufacturer, distributor, or
dispenser of any controlled substance if such agent is acting in the usual
course of his or her business or employment;

(2) A common or contract carrier or warehouseman, or an employee thereof,
whose possession of any controlled substance is in the usual course of
business or employment;

(3) An ultimate user or a person in possession of any controlled substance
pursuant to a lawful order of a practitioner or in lawful possession of a
Schedule V substance.

5. The department of health and senior services may, by regulation, waive the
requirement for registration of certain manufacturers, distributors, or
dispensers if it finds it consistent with the public health and safety.

6. A separate registration shall be required at each principal place of business
or professional practice where the applicant manufactures, distributes, or
dispenses controlled substances.

7. The department of health and senior services is authorized to inspect the
establishment of a registrant or applicant in accordance with the provisions of
sections 195.005 to 195.425.

(RSMo 1939 § 9834, A.L. 1971 H.B. 69, A.L. 1989 S.B. 215 & 58, A.L. 1993 S.B.
52, A.L. 1995 S.B. 3, A.L. 1997 H.B. 635, A.L. 1999 H.B. 94 merged with S.B.
216)
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