3361 - Certification of Patients.

NY Pub Health L § 3361 (2019) (N/A)
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(b) If the practitioner states in the certification that in the practitioner's professional opinion the patient is terminally ill and that the certification shall not expire until the patient dies, then the registry identification card shall state that the patient is terminally ill and that the registration card shall not expire until the patient dies;

(c) If the practitioner re-issues the certification to terminate the certification on an earlier date, then the registry identification card shall expire on that date and shall be promptly returned by the certified patient to the department;

(d) If the certification so provides, the registry identification card shall state any recommendation or limitation by the practitioner as to the form or forms of medical marihuana or dosage for the certified patient; and

(e) The commissioner shall make regulations to implement this subdivision. 9.(a) A certification may be a special certification if, in addition to the other requirements for a certification, the practitioner certifies in the certification that the patient's serious condition is progressive and degenerative or that delay in the patient's certified medical use of marihuana poses a serious risk to the patient's life or health.

(b) The department shall create the form to be used for a special certification and shall make that form available to be downloaded from the department's website. * NB Repealed July 5, 2021