{"data":{"id":"us-dc/d.c.-code-7-2852","jurisdiction":"us-dc","citation":"D.C. Code § 7-2852","heading":"Prohibition.","body":"(a)\nNo sharp shall be sold, distributed, used, or possessed within the District of Columbia (“District”) unless its premarket notification for medical devises with engineered sharps injury protections has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration, pursuant to section 510(k) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, approved October 10, 1962 (76 Stat. 794; 21 U.S.C. § 360(k)).\n\n(b)\nThe Director of the Department of Health (“Director”) may provide a waiver of the prohibition in subsection (a) of this section to any person that can establish through objective data that:\n(1)\nThe use of sharps without engineered sharps injury protections is essential to the performance of a specific medical procedure;\n(2)\nSharps with engineered sharps injury protections are not presently available for use in that medical procedure; and\n(3)\nIn the case of a manufacturer, the manufacturer is currently developing, and will continue to develop:\n(A)\nSharps with engineered injury protections; or\n(B)\nMedical devices that do not incorporate a needle into their design that are suitable for the specific medical procedure.\n\n(c)\nFor a period of one year following the implementation of the prohibition pursuant to subsection (a) of this section and § 7-2858, a waiver of the prohibition shall be granted to all persons for use of syringes that are pre-filled with medications by a pharmaceutical company.\n\n(d)\nThis chapter shall not apply to the sale, distribution, use, or possession of sharps used in the practice of dentistry or in the self-administration of drugs, medicines, or other treatments.","path":["Title 7. Human Health Care and Safety.","Chapter 28A. Safe Needle Distribution."],"source_url":"https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/sections/7-2852","current_through":"2026-08-20 (D.C. Law 26-175)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-29T05:44:07Z","sha256":"2295442bdafd6acdf4b6e7b21cd22143aea1eabfaf49445b528c1c19c2aa3f60","source_id":"us-dc","stale":false,"prev":"us-dc/d.c.-code-7-2851","next":"us-dc/d.c.-code-7-2853"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}