3.__Fund.__"Fund" means the Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Program Fund established in section 7247.

4.__Office.__"Office" means the Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services, Office of Substance Abuse.

5.__Prescriber.__"Prescriber" means a licensed health care professional with authority to prescribe controlled substances.

6.__Prescription monitoring information.__"Prescription monitoring information" means information submitted to and maintained by the program.

7.__Program.__"Program" means the Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Program established under section 7248.

§7247.__Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Program Fund

The Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Program Fund is established within the office to be used by the director of the office to fund or assist in funding the program.__Any balance in the fund does not lapse but is carried forward to be expended for the same purposes in succeeding fiscal years.__The fund must be deposited with and maintained and administered by the office.__ The office may accept funds into the fund from any source, public or private, including grants or contributions of money or other things of value, that it determines necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.__Money received by the office to establish and maintain the program must be used for the expenses of administering this chapter.__No General Fund appropriation may be made available for the purposes of this chapter.

§7248.__Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Program

1.__Establishment of monitoring program.__Contingent upon the receipt of funds pursuant to section 7247 sufficient to carry out the purposes of this chapter, the Controlled Substances Prescription Monitoring Program is established.__No later than January 2, 2004, to implement the program, the office shall establish an electronic system for monitoring any controlled

substance that is dispensed to a person in the State by a dispenser.