§461-9 Pharmacist in charge; pharmacy personnel.

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(a)A registered pharmacist shall be in personal and immediate charge of the pharmacy and personnel employed in the pharmacy. Temporary absences of the registered pharmacist shall be unlawful except for periods of time and under circumstances as authorized under the rules of the board. During any absence of the registered pharmacist, prescriptions may not be filled, compounded, or received by telephone and no drugs shall be sold; provided that this shall not preclude the sale at those times of things that might be sold were the pharmacy a store not subject to this chapter. No person other than a registered pharmacist or a pharmacy intern under the registered pharmacist's immediate supervision shall fill or compound prescriptions except as provided by subsection (c).

(b)No person shall practice as a pharmacy intern without having first obtained a permit from the board. The board shall adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91 defining the functions of a pharmacy intern, establishing the requirements to be met by an applicant for a pharmacy intern permit, and specifying the duration of the permit and the procedures for the immediate supervision of the pharmacy intern by a registered pharmacist; provided that the supervising registered pharmacist shall supervise the actions of the pharmacy intern.

(c)A registered pharmacy technician may be employed to perform filling, packaging, manipulative, repetitive, or other nondiscretionary tasks, and tasks specified in section 461-11.4, only while assisting and while under the supervision and control of a registered pharmacist and under rules adopted by the board pursuant to chapter 91. [L 1949, c 175, pt of §1; RL 1955, §71-9; HRS §461-9; am L 1983, c 23, §3; am L 1985, c 223, §3; gen ch 1985; am L 1986, c 143, §10; am L 1993, c 112, §1; am L 2025, c 93, §6]