Each remote pharmacy must be staffed with a certified pharmacy technician registered with the board or a registered pharmacy intern. A certified pharmacy technician registered with the board working at a remote pharmacy without an onsite pharmacist, pharmacy intern, or another certified pharmacy technician registered with the board that meets the requirements of this section, must have a minimum of one thousand hours of experience as a registered pharmacy technician in accordance with chapter 20:51:29 and must be certified in accordance with § 20:51:29:06. Five hundred hours of this experience must be in the central pharmacy or the remote telepharmacy with an onsite pharmacist, pharmacy intern, or another certified pharmacy technician registered with the board meeting the experience requirements for technicians in this section. A pharmacy intern may work at a remote pharmacy if the intern has at least five hundred hours of experience as a registered pharmacy intern in accordance with chapter 20:51:02.

Source: 35 SDR 183, effective February 2, 2009 ; 50 SDR 138, effective June 2, 2024; 52 SDR 27, effective September 15, 2025 .

General Authority: SDCL 36-11-11 (1) (13) , 36-11-72 (3).

Law Implemented: SDCL 36-11- 2 ( 22 ) , 36-11-2 5, 36-11-71 .

Prior versions effective: 2024-06-02, 2009-02-02.