21 - Official New York state prescription forms.
§ 21. Official New York state prescription forms. In addition to the requirements of section sixty-eight hundred ten of the education law or article thirty-three of this chapter, all prescriptions written in this state by a person authorized by this state to issue such prescriptions shall be on serialized official New York state prescription forms provided by the department. Such forms shall be furnished to practitioners authorized to write prescriptions and to institutional dispensers, and shall be non-reproducible and non-transferable. The commissioner in consultation with the commissioner of education may promulgate emergency regulations for the electronic transmission of prescriptions from prescribers to pharmacists or for ordering and filling requirements of prescription drugs for prescriptions written for recipients eligible for medical assistance pursuant to title eleven of article five of the social services law, for participants in the program for elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage pursuant to article nineteen-k of the executive law and for prescriptions written pursuant to article thirty-three of this chapter. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the commissioner in consultation with the commissioner of education from permitting, pursuant to emergency regulation, different formats of the prescription blank for different types of prescribers or from permitting the use of both the official New York state prescription form and prescriptions written pursuant to the requirements of section sixty-eight hundred ten of the education law or article thirty-three of this chapter for a period of eighteen months after the effective date of this section or from promulgating any additional emergency regulations in furtherance of this section.