CALIFORNIA. 



The board, ,of pharmacy may make such investigations relative to 

 the quality of drugs sold as it deems necessary and may appoint 

 inspectors to examine suspected drugs and institute prosecutions when 

 evidence of the sale of adulterated drugs is found. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



1. Compounding and vending drugs. It shall be unlawful for any person to 

 manufacture, compound, sell, or dispense any drug, poison, medicine or chemical, 

 or to dispense or compound any prescription of a medical practitioner, unless 

 such person be a registered pharmacist or a registered assistant pharmacist 

 within the meaning of this act, except as hereinafter provided. Every store, dis- 

 pensary, pharmacy, laboratory or office for the sale, dispensing or compounding of 

 drugs, medicines or chemicals, or for the dispensing of prescriptions of medical 

 practitioners, shall be in charge of a registered pharmacist. A registered assis- 

 tant pharmacist may be left in charge of a store, dispensary, pharmacy, labora- 

 tory or office for the sale, dispensing, or compounding of drugs, medicines or 

 chemicals, or for the dispensing of prescriptions of medical practitioners only 

 during the temporary absence of the registered pharmacist. Temporary absence 

 within the meaning of this act shall be held to be only those unavoidable 

 absences which may occur during a day's work, and when the registered phar- 

 macist in charge shall be within immediate call, ready and able to assume the 

 direct supervision of said pharmacy. No registered assistant shall conduct a 

 pharmacy. Every store or shop where drugs, medicines or chemicals are dis- 

 pensed or sold at retail, or displayed for sale at retail, or where physicians 

 prescriptions are compounded, which has upon it or in it as a sign, the words 

 "pharmacist," "pharmaceutical chemist," "apothecary," "druggist," "phar- 

 macy," "drugstore," "drugs," or any of these words, or the characteristic 

 show-bottles or globes, either colored or filled with colored liquids, shall be 

 deemed a " pharmacy " within the meaning of this act. 



Statutes, 1905, p. 535. 



SALE OF POISONS. 



1. Labeling. It shall be unlawful for any person to retail any of the substances 

 poisonous, and by reason thereof dangerous to human life, without distinctly 

 labeling the bottle, box, vessel, or package, and the wrapper or cover thereof 

 in which such substance is contained, with the common or usual name thereof, 

 together with the word " poison," and the name and place of business of the 

 seller. Nor shall it be lawful for any person to retail any of the substances 

 enumerated in either of said schedules to any person, unless, on due inquiry, 

 it is found that the person receiving the same is aware of its poisonous char- 

 acter, and that it is to be used for a legitimate purpose. 



2. Record. It shall be unlawful for any person to retail any of the substances 

 enumerated herein, unless, before delivering the same, such person shall make, 



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