California Code of Regulations
Title 9 - Rehabilitative and Developmental Services
Division 4 - Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs
Chapter 4 - Narcotic Treatment Programs
Subchapter 5 - Patient Treatment
Article 4 - Take-Home Medication Privileges
Section 10380 - Take-Home Medication Procedures for Holidays or Sunday Closure
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) A program whose maintenance treatment modality is not in operation due to the program's observance of an official State holiday or Sunday closure may provide take-home medication according to the following procedures:
(b) A patient shall not receive a take-home medication under the provisions of subsection (a) and shall be continued on the same dosage schedule if a medical director or program physician has included the patient within a list of all patients that, in his or her clinical judgment, have been determined currently not responsible in handling narcotic medications, based on consideration of the criteria specified in Section 10370(a). This list shall be maintained with the daily reconciliation dispensing record for the holiday or Sunday closure.
(c) The official State holidays are:
| New Year's Day | January 1 |
| Martin Luther King's Birthday | Third Monday in January |
| Lincoln's Birthday | February 12 |
| Washington's Birthday | Third Monday in February |
| Cesar Chavez Day | March 31 |
| Memorial Day | Last Monday in May |
| Independence Day | July 4 |
| Labor Day | First Monday in September |
| Columbus Day | Second Monday in October |
| Veterans Day | November 11 |
| Thanksgiving Day | Fourth Thursday in November |
| Christmas Day | December 25 |
(d) With prior written approval of the Department, a program may exchange other days of special local or ethnic significance on a one-for-one basis with the holidays listed in subsection (c).
1. Change
without regulatory effect renumbering and amending parts of former section
10240 to
10380 filed 6-3-91 pursuant to section
100, title 1, California Code of
Regulations (Register 91, No. 34).
2. Amendment of section heading,
section and NOTE filed 3-15-96 as an emergency; operative 3-15-96 (Register 96, No.
11). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 7-13-96 or emergency
language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
3.
Amendment of section heading, section and NOTE refiled 7-8-96 as an emergency;
operative 7-12-96 (Register 96, No. 28). A Certificate of Compliance must be
transmitted to OAL by 11-12-96 or emergency language will be repealed by operation
of law on the following day.
4. Amendment of section heading, section and
NOTE refiled 10-23-96 as an emergency; operative 10-29-96 (Register 96, No. 43). A
Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 2-26-97 or emergency
language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
5.
Amendment of section heading, section and NOTE refiled 2-11-97 as an emergency;
operative 2-24-97 (Register 97, No. 7). A Certificate of Compliance must be
transmitted to OAL by 6-24-97 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of
law on the following day.
6. Certificate of Compliance as to 2-11-97
order transmitted to OAL 3-4-97; disapproved by OAL and order of repeal as to
2-11-97 order filed 4-15-97 (Register 97, No. 16).
7. Amendment of
section heading, section and NOTE filed 4-15-97 as an emergency; operative 4-15-97
(Register 97, No. 16). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by
8-13-97 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following
day.
8. Certificate of Compliance as to 4-15-97 order, including
amendment of section heading and section, transmitted to OAL 6-2-97 and filed
6-13-97 (Register 97, No. 24).
9. Change without regulatory effect
amending NOTE filed 4-19-2006 pursuant to section
100, title 1, California Code of
Regulations (Register 2006, No. 16).
10. Amendment of section heading,
section and NOTE filed 5-7-2020; operative 7-1-2020 (Register 2020, No. 19).
Note: Authority cited: Sections 11750, 11755, 11835, 11839.3 and 11839.20, Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections 11839.3 and 11839.20, Health and Safety Code.
