Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-2-313
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Excepted preparations - Conditions of exemption
Official statutory text
A. Except as otherwise in this act specifically provided, this
act shall not apply to the following cases:
1. Prescribing, administering, dispensing, or selling at retail
not more than one of any of the following medicinal preparations
that contain in thirty (30) milliliters or, if a solid or semisolid
preparation, in one (1) avoirdupois ounce:
a. not more than one hundred sixty (160) milligrams of
opium;
b. not more than twenty (20) milligrams of morphine or of
any of its salts; or
c. not more than eighty (80) milligrams of codeine or any
of its salts.
2. Prescribing, administering, dispensing, or selling at retail
of liniments, ointments, and other preparations, that are
susceptible of external use only and that contain narcotic drugs in
such combinations as to prevent their being readily extracted from
such liniments, ointments, or preparations, except that this act
shall apply to all liniments, ointments and other preparations that
contain coca leaves in any quantity or combination.
B. The exemptions authorized by subparagraphs 1 and 2 of
subsection A of this section shall be subject to all of the
conditions set out in this subsection. The exemptions authorized by
subparagraph 3 of subsection A of this section shall not, however,
be subject to the conditions set out in subparagraphs 1, 2 or 3 of
this subsection, but shall be subject to subparagraph 4 of this
subsection.
1. No person shall prescribe, administer, dispense, or
distribute under the exemptions of this section, to any one person,
or for the use of any one person or animal, any preparation or
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preparations included within this section, when he knows, or can by
reasonable diligence ascertain, that such prescribing,
administering, dispensing or distributing will provide the persons
to whom or for whose use, or the owner of the animal for the use of
which such preparation is prescribed, administered, dispensed, or
distributed, within any forty-eight (48) consecutive hours, with
more than three hundred twenty (320) milligrams of opium, or more
than forty (40) milligrams of morphine or any of its salts, or more
than one hundred sixty (160) milligrams of codeine or any of its
salts, or will provide such person or the owner of such animal,
within forty-eight (48) consecutive hours, with more than one
preparation exempted by this section from the operation of this act.
2. This act shall not apply to any compound, mixture or
preparation which contains not more than one (1) drachm of paregoric
per thirty (30) milliliters.
3. The medicinal preparation, or the liniment, ointment, or
other preparation susceptible of external use only, prescribed,
administered, dispensed, or distributed, shall contain, in addition
to the narcotic drug in it, some drug or drugs conferring upon it
medicinal qualities other than those possessed by the narcotic drug
alone. Such preparation shall be prescribed, administered,
dispensed, and distributed in good faith as a medicine, and not for
the purpose of evading the provisions of this act.
4. The provisions of Section 2-314 of this act shall apply to
the preparations referred to in subsection A of this section.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the kind and
quantity of any narcotic drug that may be prescribed, administered,
dispensed, or distributed to any person or for the use of any person
or animal when it is prescribed, administered, dispensed, or
distributed in compliance with the general provisions of this act.
act shall not apply to the following cases:
1. Prescribing, administering, dispensing, or selling at retail
not more than one of any of the following medicinal preparations
that contain in thirty (30) milliliters or, if a solid or semisolid
preparation, in one (1) avoirdupois ounce:
a. not more than one hundred sixty (160) milligrams of
opium;
b. not more than twenty (20) milligrams of morphine or of
any of its salts; or
c. not more than eighty (80) milligrams of codeine or any
of its salts.
2. Prescribing, administering, dispensing, or selling at retail
of liniments, ointments, and other preparations, that are
susceptible of external use only and that contain narcotic drugs in
such combinations as to prevent their being readily extracted from
such liniments, ointments, or preparations, except that this act
shall apply to all liniments, ointments and other preparations that
contain coca leaves in any quantity or combination.
B. The exemptions authorized by subparagraphs 1 and 2 of
subsection A of this section shall be subject to all of the
conditions set out in this subsection. The exemptions authorized by
subparagraph 3 of subsection A of this section shall not, however,
be subject to the conditions set out in subparagraphs 1, 2 or 3 of
this subsection, but shall be subject to subparagraph 4 of this
subsection.
1. No person shall prescribe, administer, dispense, or
distribute under the exemptions of this section, to any one person,
or for the use of any one person or animal, any preparation or
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 63. Public Health and Safety Page 966
preparations included within this section, when he knows, or can by
reasonable diligence ascertain, that such prescribing,
administering, dispensing or distributing will provide the persons
to whom or for whose use, or the owner of the animal for the use of
which such preparation is prescribed, administered, dispensed, or
distributed, within any forty-eight (48) consecutive hours, with
more than three hundred twenty (320) milligrams of opium, or more
than forty (40) milligrams of morphine or any of its salts, or more
than one hundred sixty (160) milligrams of codeine or any of its
salts, or will provide such person or the owner of such animal,
within forty-eight (48) consecutive hours, with more than one
preparation exempted by this section from the operation of this act.
2. This act shall not apply to any compound, mixture or
preparation which contains not more than one (1) drachm of paregoric
per thirty (30) milliliters.
3. The medicinal preparation, or the liniment, ointment, or
other preparation susceptible of external use only, prescribed,
administered, dispensed, or distributed, shall contain, in addition
to the narcotic drug in it, some drug or drugs conferring upon it
medicinal qualities other than those possessed by the narcotic drug
alone. Such preparation shall be prescribed, administered,
dispensed, and distributed in good faith as a medicine, and not for
the purpose of evading the provisions of this act.
4. The provisions of Section 2-314 of this act shall apply to
the preparations referred to in subsection A of this section.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the kind and
quantity of any narcotic drug that may be prescribed, administered,
dispensed, or distributed to any person or for the use of any person
or animal when it is prescribed, administered, dispensed, or
distributed in compliance with the general provisions of this act.
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