Section 22-B1008. EXEMPTION OF AGENTS AND EMPLOYEES: AFFILIATED PRACTITIONERS

 

1008.1The following persons shall be exempt from registration:

 

(a)An agent or employee of a person who is registered to engage in any group of independent activities, provided the agent or employee is acting in the usual course of his or her business or employment;

 

(b)An individual practitioner, as defined in §142(20)(A) of the Act (other than an intern, resident, foreign trained physician or physician who is an agent or employee of the District of Columbia Government), who is an agent or employee of another practitioner registered to dispense controlled substances when acting in the usual course of his or her employment administering and dispensing (other than by issuance of prescription) controlled substances; but only to the extent that the individual practitioner is authorized or permitted to do so by the jurisdiction of the District of Columbia under the registration of the employee or principal practitioner. (For example, a pharmacist employed by a pharmacy need not be registered individually to fill a prescription for controlled substances if a pharmacy is so registered);

 

(c)An individual practitioner, who is an intern, resident, or foreign trained physician or a physician who is an agent or employee of the District of Columbia Government, when dispensing, administering and prescribing controlled substances under the registration of a hospital or other institution which is registered and by whom he or she is employed; Provided, that the following occurs:

 

(1)The dispensing, administering or prescribing is done in the usual course of his or her professional practice;

 

(2)The individual practitioner is authorized or permitted to do so in the District of Columbia;

 

(3)The hospital or other institution has verified that the individual practitioner is permitted to dispense, administer, or prescribe drugs within the District of Columbia;

 

(4)The individual practitioner is acting only within the scope of his or her employment in the hospital or institution;

 

(5)The hospital or other institution maintains a specific internal code number required by the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration for each intern resident or foreign trained physician so authorized; and

 

(6)A current list of internal codes and the corresponding individual practitioners is kept by the hospital or other institution and is made available at all times to other registrants, law enforcement agencies, and the Director upon request for the purpose of verifying the authority of the prescribing individual practitioner; and

 

(d)A local or federal law enforcement official, civil defense official or any other person with similar official responsibility as determined by the Director.

 

source

Final Rulemaking published at 33 DCR 1046 (February 21, 1986).