[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 21, Volume 9]
[Revised as of April 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 21CFR1301.24]

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                         TITLE 21-FOOD AND DRUGS
 
   CHAPTER II--DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 
PART 1301--REGISTRATION OF MANUFACTURERS, DISTRIBUTORS, AND DISPENSERS OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1301.24  Exemption of law enforcement officials.

    (a) The requirement of registration is waived for the following 
persons in the circumstances described in this section:
    (1) Any officer or employee of the Administration, any officer of 
the U.S. Customs Service, any officer or employee of the United States 
Food and Drug Administration, and any other Federal officer who is 
lawfully engaged in the enforcement of any Federal law relating to 
controlled substances, drugs or customs, and is duly authorized to 
possess or to import or export controlled substances in the course of 
his/her official duties; and
    (2) Any officer or employee of any State, or any political 
subdivision or agency thereof, who is engaged in the enforcement of any 
State or local law relating to controlled substances and is duly 
authorized to possess controlled substances in the course of his/her 
official duties.
    (b) Any official exempted by this section may, when acting in the 
course of his/her official duties, procure any controlled substance in 
the course of an inspection, in accordance with Sec. 1316.03(d) of this 
chapter, or in the course of any criminal investigation involving the 
person from whom the substance was procured, and may possess any 
controlled substance and distribute any such substance to any other 
official who is also exempted by this section and acting in the course 
of his/her official duties.
    (c) In order to enable law enforcement agency laboratories, 
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laboratories of the Administration, to obtain and transfer controlled 
substances for use as standards in chemical analysis, such laboratories 
shall obtain annually a registration to conduct chemical analysis. Such 
laboratories shall be exempted from payment of a fee for registration. 
Laboratory personnel, when acting in the scope of their official duties, 
are deemed to be officials exempted by this section and within the 
activity described in section 515(d) of the Act (21 U.S.C. 885(d)). For 
purposes of this paragraph, laboratory activities shall not include 
field or other preliminary chemical tests by officials exempted by this 
section.
    (d) In addition to the activities authorized under a registration to 
conduct chemical analysis pursuant to Sec. 1301.13(e)(1)(ix), 
laboratories of the Administration shall be authorized to manufacture or 
import controlled substances for any lawful purpose, to distribute or 
export such substances to any person, and to import and export such 
substances in emergencies without regard to the requirements of part 
1312 of this chapter if a report concerning the importation or 
exportation is made to the Drug Operations Section of the Administration 
within 30 days of such importation or exportation.

[62 FR 13951, Mar. 24, 1997]