Wyo. Code R. 015-0015-1
Effective Date: 01/28/2013 to 07/26/2013
Rule Type: Superceded Rules & Regulations
Reference Number: 015.0015.1.01282013
Emergency rules are no longer in effect 120 days after filing with the Secretary of State.
Section 1. Purpose. The purpose of these rules is to comply with W.S. § 35-7-1011(d), which requires the Commissioner of Drugs and Substances Control to similarly control any substance after publication in the Federal Register of a final rule designating a substance as a controlled substance.
Section 2. Authority. The Commissioner of Drugs and Substances Controls' authority to make rules is found at W.S. 35-7-1011(a), which allow the Commissioner, with the advice of the Advisory Board on Drugs and Substances Control, to add substances to the control schedules pursuant to the procedures of the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act.
Section 3. Additional Controlled Substances. On January 4, 2013, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration published in the Federal Register a final rule controlling twenty-six new substances as Schedule I controlled substances. Pursuant to W.S. § 35-7-1011(d), the Wyoming Attorney General, as Commissioner of Drugs and Substances Control, "shall similarly control the substance[s] . . . after the expiration of thirty days from publication in the Federal Register of a final order designating a substance as a controlled substance[.]"
The Commissioner incorporates by reference 21 CFR Part 1308, found at Federal Register Vol. 78, No. 3, pages 664-666. That rule adds twenty-six new substances to the federal Schedule I of controlled substances.
The URL for the federal rule is: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-01-04/pdf/2012-31698.pdf