Senate Bill No. 204–Committee on Human Resources

and Facilities

 

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AN ACT relating to substances; revising the definition of the “manufacture” of a substance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

   Section 1. NRS 453.091 is hereby amended to read as follows:

   453.091  1.  “Manufacture” means the production, preparation,

 propagation, compounding, conversion or processing of a substance, either

 directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of natural origin, or

 independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of

 extraction and chemical synthesis, and includes any packaging or

 repackaging of the substance or labeling or relabeling of its container.

   2.  “Manufacture” does not include [the preparation or compounding of

 a substance by a person for his own use or] the preparation, compounding,

 packaging or labeling of a substance by a pharmacist, physician,

 physician’s assistant, dentist, podiatric physician, advanced practitioner of

 nursing or veterinarian:

   (a) As an incident to his administering or dispensing of a substance in

 the course of his professional practice; or

   (b) By his authorized agent under his supervision, for the purpose of, or

 as an incident to, research, teaching or chemical analysis and not for sale.

   Sec. 2.  The amendatory provisions of this act do not apply to offenses

 committed before October 1, 2001.

   Sec. 3. This act becomes effective at 12:01 a.m. on October 1, 2001.

 

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