A. The central repository provided by the Anti-Drug Diversion Act shall:

1. Be capable of providing the collected information in forms required by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, including but not limited to, dispensations by prescriber name or registration number, dispenser name or registration number, recipient name or identification number, type of substance, frequency, quantity, and location of dispensation;

2. Provide the Bureau with continual, twenty-four-hour per day, on-line access to the collected information;

3. Secure the collected information against access by unauthorized persons;

4. Provide the Bureau, in a reasonable time, with all collected information in a format readily usable by the Bureau, in the event the relationship between the state and central repository is terminated; and

5. Not withhold access to the collected information for any reason other than failure of the Bureau to timely pay agreed fees and charges for use of the central repository.

B. The Bureau is authorized to enter into a contract with a vendor to serve as the central repository provided for in the Anti-Drug Diversion Act or to purchase the necessary equipment to create the central repository within the Bureau. The Bureau is authorized to enter into agreements and contracts with vendors as necessary to facilitate the electronic transmission of data contained within the central repository to registrants and other persons as provided for in Section 2-309D of this title. The central repository shall not be subject to the provisions of Sections 34.6 through 34.33 of Title 62 of the Oklahoma Statutes and shall be maintained and controlled by personnel of the Bureau pursuant to the confidentiality requirements provided for in Section 2-309D of this title.

Added by Laws 1990, c. 210, § 6, eff. Sept. 1, 1990. Amended by Laws 2004, c. 300, § 6, emerg. eff. May 12, 2004; Laws 2010, c. 458, § 6, eff. Nov. 1, 2010; Laws 2013, c. 340, § 2, eff. Nov. 1, 2013.