37-7-401. Restrictions upon sale or prescription of opiates -- coding prohibited -- refilling prescriptions. (1) It is unlawful for any physician, physician assistant-certified, or nurse specialist to sell or give to or prescribe for any person any opium, morphine, alkaloid-cocaine, or alpha or beta eucaine or codeine or heroin or any derivative, mixture, or preparation of any of them, except to a patient believed in good faith to require the same for medical use and in quantities proportioned to the needs of the patient.
     (2) A prescription must be written so that it can be compounded by any registered pharmacist. The coding of any prescription is a violation of this section.
     (3) A prescription marked "non repetatur", "non rep", or "N.R." cannot be refilled. A prescription marked to be refilled by a specified amount may be filled by any registered pharmacist the number of times marked on the prescription. A prescription not bearing any refill instructions may not be refilled without first obtaining permission from the prescriber. A prescription may not be refilled for more than 3 years from the date it was originally filled. A narcotic prescription may not be refilled.

     History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 11, L. 1911; re-en. Sec. 3187, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 3187, R.C.M. 1935; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 33, L. 1951; R.C.M. 1947, 66-1514; amd. Sec. 10, Ch. 379, L. 1981; amd. Sec. 17, Ch. 97, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 444, L. 1989.