Utah Code § 58-17b-501

Unlawful conduct
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"Unlawful conduct" includes:
(1) knowingly preventing or refusing to permit an authorized agent of the division to conduct an
inspection in accordance with Section 58-17b-103;
(2) failing to deliver the license, permit, or certificate to the division upon demand, if the license,
permit, or certificate has been revoked, suspended, or refused;
(3)
(a) using the title "pharmacist," "druggist," "pharmacy intern," "pharmacy technician," or a term
having similar meaning, except by an individual who is licensed as a pharmacist, pharmacy
intern, or pharmacy technician; or
(b) conducting or transacting business under a name that contains, as part of that name,
the words "drugstore," "pharmacy," "drugs," "medicine store," "medicines," "drug shop,"
"apothecary," "prescriptions," or a term having a similar meaning, or in any manner
advertising, otherwise describing, or referring to the place of the conducted business or
profession, unless the place is a pharmacy issued a license by the division, except an
establishment selling nonprescription drugs and supplies may display signs bearing the words
"packaged drugs," "drug sundries," or "nonprescription drugs," and is not considered to be a
pharmacy or drugstore by reason of the display;
(4) buying, selling, causing to be sold, or offering for sale, a drug or device that bears, or
the package bears or originally did bear, the inscription "sample," "not for resale," "for
investigational or experimental use only," or other similar words, except when a cost is incurred
in the bona fide acquisition of an investigational or experimental drug;
(5) using to a person's own advantages or revealing to anyone other than the division, board, and
its authorized representatives, or to the courts, when relevant to a judicial or administrative
proceeding under this chapter, information acquired under authority of this chapter or
concerning a method of process that is a trade secret;
(6) procuring or attempting to procure a drug or to have someone else procure or attempt to
procure a drug:
(a) by fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, or subterfuge;
(b) by forgery or alteration of a prescription or a written order;
(c) by concealment of a material fact;
(d) by use of a false statement in a prescription, chart, order, or report; or
(e) by theft;
(7) filling, refilling, or advertising the filling or refilling of prescriptions for a consumer or patient
residing in this state if the person is not licensed:
(a) under this chapter; or
(b) in the state from which the individual is dispensing;
(8) requiring an employed pharmacist, pharmacy intern, pharmacy technician, or authorized
supportive personnel to engage in conduct in violation of this chapter;
(9) being in possession of a prescription drug for an unlawful purpose;
(10) dispensing a prescription drug to a person that does not have a prescription from a
practitioner, except as permitted under Title 26B, Chapter 4, Part 5, Treatment Access;

(11) dispensing a prescription drug to a person that the person dispensing the drug knows or
should know is attempting to obtain drugs by fraud or misrepresentation;
(12) selling, dispensing, distributing, or otherwise trafficking in prescription drugs when not licensed
to do so or when not exempted from licensure; and
(13) a person using a prescription drug or controlled substance that was not lawfully prescribed for
the person by a practitioner.

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