SECTION .2000 ‑ ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

21 NCAC 46 .2001             FILING AND SERVICE

(a)  Parties shall file all papers provided for in this Section with the Board, either before service or within five days after service. The Board shall consider a paper to be filed when the Board actually receives it. Parties shall direct filings to the Enforcement Manager, North Carolina Board of Pharmacy, 6015 Farrington Road, Suite 201, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27517.

(b)  In addition to filing all papers with the Board, the Board and other parties shall serve all papers as follows:

(1)           The Board shall serve a notice of hearing under Rule .2006 of this Section on all parties by any method for service of process permitted by G.S. 150B-38(c).

(2)           Parties shall serve subpoenas under Rule .2013 of this Section by any method for service permitted by G.S. 150B-39(c). While investigating, preparing for, or during a contested case, among others who are authorized to serve subpoenas, Board staff may serve subpoenas on behalf of the Board, pursuant to G.S. 1A-1, Rule 45.

(3)           Parties shall serve all other papers in the contested case on all parties, including counsel to the Board, by any method for service permitted by G.S. 1A-1, Rule 5.

(4)           The Board shall serve all its orders by any method for service permitted by G.S. 150B‑42(a).

History Note:        Authority G.S. 90‑85.6; 90-85.38; 150B‑38; 150B-39; 150B-40; 150B‑41; 150B-42;

Eff. April 1, 1983;

Amended Eff. October 1, 1990; May 1, 1989; July 1, 1988; March 1, 1987;

Pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without substantive public interest Eff. October 3, 2017;

Amended Eff. March 1, 2024; August 1, 2020.