§ 3343. Reports and records. 1. Prescriptions and copies of
prescriptions shall be preserved in the following manner:

(a) dispensing practitioners filing information electronically
pursuant to subdivision six of section thirty-three hundred thirty-one
of this article, shall dispose of any electronically recorded
information in such manner as the commissioner in consultation with the
commissioner of education shall by regulation require;

(b) pharmacists dispensing controlled substances upon prescription
shall preserve such prescriptions in such manner as the commissioner in
consultation with the commissioner of education shall, by regulation,
require.

2. Practitioners and pharmacies shall maintain records of all
controlled substances received and dispensed in such manner as the
commissioner shall, by regulation, require.