Section 21. Official New York state prescription forms

In addition to the
  requirements of section sixty-eight hundred ten of the education law  or
  article  thirty-three of this chapter, all prescriptions written in this
  state by a person authorized by this state to issue  such  prescriptions
  shall  be  on  serialized  official  New  York  state prescription forms
  provided  by  the  department.  Such  forms  shall   be   furnished   to
  practitioners  authorized  to  write  prescriptions and to institutional
  dispensers, and shall  be  non-reproducible  and  non-transferable.  The
  commissioner  in  consultation  with  the  commissioner of education may
  promulgate emergency regulations  for  the  electronic  transmission  of
  prescriptions  from  prescribers  to  pharmacists  or  for  ordering and
  filling requirements of prescription drugs for prescriptions written for
  recipients eligible for medical assistance pursuant to title  eleven  of
  article five of the social services law, for participants in the program
  for  elderly  pharmaceutical  insurance  coverage  pursuant  to  article
  nineteen-k of the executive law and for prescriptions  written  pursuant
  to  article  thirty-three of this chapter. Nothing in this section shall
  prohibit the commissioner  in  consultation  with  the  commissioner  of
  education  from  permitting, pursuant to emergency regulation, different
  formats of the prescription blank for different types of prescribers  or
  from permitting the use of both the official New York state prescription
  form  and  prescriptions written pursuant to the requirements of section
  sixty-eight hundred ten of the education law or article thirty-three  of
  this chapter for a period of eighteen months after the effective date of
  this  section  or from promulgating any additional emergency regulations
  in furtherance of this section.