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1. Prescriptions and copies of prescriptions shall be preserved in the following manner:\n(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;\n(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.\n2. Practitioners and pharmacies shall maintain records of all controlled substances received and dispensed in such manner as the commissioner shall, by regulation, require.