NAC639.220. Schedule of fees; penalty for late renewal; exemptions from certain fees.

     1. The Board hereby adopts the following schedule of fees:

For the examination of an applicant for registration as a pharmacist...........	Actual cost                     of the           examination
For the investigation or registration of an applicant as a registered pharmacist...............................................................................................	$180
For the investigation, examination or registration of an applicant as a registered pharmacist by reciprocity........................................................	180
For the investigation or issuance of an original license to conduct a retail pharmacy.................................................................................................	500
For the biennial renewal of a license to conduct a retail pharmacy..............	500
For the investigation or issuance of an original license to conduct an institutional pharmacy.............................................................................	500
For the biennial renewal of a license to conduct an institutional pharmacy.	500
For the investigation or issuance of an original license to conduct a pharmacy in a correctional institution.....................................................	500
For the biennial renewal of a license to conduct a pharmacy in a correctional institution.............................................................................	500
For the issuance of an original or duplicate certificate of registration as a registered pharmacist...............................................................................	50
For the biennial renewal of registration as a registered pharmacist..............	180
For the reinstatement of a lapsed registration (in addition to the fees for renewal for the period of lapse)..............................................................	100
For the initial registration of a pharmaceutical technician or pharmaceutical technician in training......................................................	40
For the biennial renewal of registration of a pharmaceutical technician or pharmaceutical technician in training......................................................	40
For the investigation or registration of an intern pharmacist........................	40
For the biennial renewal of registration as an intern pharmacist..................	40
For the investigation or registration of an advanced practitioner of nursing or a physician assistant to prescribe drugs that are not controlled substances................................................................................................	80
For the biennial renewal of registration of an advanced practitioner of nursing or a physician assistant to prescribe drugs that are not controlled substances..............................................................................	80
For authorization of a physician, advanced practitioner of nursing, physician assistant, euthanasia technician, ambulatory surgical center, facility for treatment with narcotics, researcher, instructional user or any other authorized person to prescribe or possess controlled substances................................................................................................	80
For the biennial renewal of authorization of a physician, advanced practitioner of nursing, physician assistant, euthanasia technician, ambulatory surgical center, facility for treatment with narcotics, researcher, instructional user or any other authorized person to prescribe or possess controlled substances..............................................	80
For the investigation or issuance of an original license to engage in business as an authorized warehouse, medical products provider or medical products wholesaler...................................................................	500
For the biennial renewal of a license to engage in business as an authorized warehouse, medical products provider or medical products wholesaler................................................................................................	500
For the investigation or issuance of an original license to a manufacturer or wholesaler...........................................................................................	500
For the biennial renewal of a license for a manufacturer or wholesaler.......	500
For the reissuance of a license issued to a pharmacy, when no change of ownership is involved, but the license must be reissued because of a change in the information required thereon............................................	50
For authorization of a practitioner to dispense controlled substances or dangerous drugs, or both, for each location where the practitioner will dispense controlled substances or dangerous drugs, or both..................	300
For the biennial renewal of authorization of a practitioner to dispense controlled substances or dangerous drugs, or both, for each location where the practitioner will dispense controlled substances or dangerous drugs, or both..........................................................................................	300

     2. The penalty for failure to pay the renewal fee for any license, permit or certificate within the statutory period, as provided in subsection 4 of NRS 639.170, is 50 percent of the renewal fee for each period of delinquency in addition to the renewal fee for each period of delinquency.

     3. Any person who has been registered as a pharmacist in this State for at least 50 years is not required to pay the fee for the biennial renewal of a certificate of registration as a registered pharmacist.

     4. The provisions of this section concerning the fee for the biennial renewal of the authorization to dispense controlled substances or dangerous drugs do not apply to an advanced practitioner of nursing who is required to pay a fee pursuant to NAC 639.870.

     5. A health center:

     (a) Which is a federally qualified health center as defined in 42 U.S.C. § 1396d(l)(2)(B), as that section existed on March 1, 2000, that provides health care primarily to medically underserved persons in a community; and

     (b) Which is not a medical facility as defined in NRS 449.0151,

Ê is not required to pay the fee for the collective certification of advanced practitioners of nursing in the employ of a public or nonprofit agency as set forth in subsection 1.

     6. A practitioner employed by or serving as an independent contractor of a health center:

     (a) Which is a federally qualified health center as defined in 42 U.S.C. § 1396d(l)(2)(B), as that section existed on March 1, 2000, that provides health care primarily to medically underserved persons in a community; and

     (b) Which is not a medical facility as defined in NRS 449.0151,

Ê is not required to pay a fee to the Board for a change of address or for an additional address at which the practitioner dispenses drugs.

     7. A practitioner who is exempt from the payment of a fee pursuant to subsection 6 shall notify the Board in writing of each change of address or additional address, or both.

     [Bd. of Pharmacy, § 639.050, eff. 6-26-80]—(NAC A 6-25-82; 6-16-86; 2-18-88; 4-28-88; 8-10-89; 9-11-91; 10-17-91; 11-15-93; 1-10-94; 7-7-94; 11-9-95; 5-22-96; R155-99, 3-1-2000; R011-01, 11-1-2001; R012-02, 5-31-2002; R081-04, 8-25-2004; R217-05, 5-4-2006; R114-08, 9-18-2008; R119-09, 1-28-2010)