KENTUCKY. 



The State board of pharmacy may have chemical analyses made 

 of articles concerning which complaint has been made and may prose- 

 cute the vendors of such drugs as are found to be adulterated. An 

 effort is made to carry out the provisions of the law but its enforce- 

 ment is curtailed for lack of sufficient funds. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



2619. -Compoundin g and vending drugs; penalty. Except as in this act pro- 

 vided it shall hereafter be lawful in the Commonwealth of Kentucky for any 

 person who is not a registered pharmacist, within the meaning of this act, to 

 vend at retail, compound or dispense any drug, medicine, chemical, poison, or 

 pharmaceutical preparation for medical use, or compound and dispense 

 physicians' prescriptions. Any person violating the provisions of this section 

 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction .thereof, shall be 

 liable to a fine of not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars for each and 

 every offense. 



2620. Compounding of prescriptions, etc.; penalty. Any owner of a pharmacy, 

 or retail drug store, who, not being a registered pharmacist, shall fail or 

 neglect to place in charge of such pharmacy or drug store a registered pharma- 

 cist, or any such proprietor who shall by himself, or any other person, permit 

 the compounding or dispensing of prescriptions, or the vending at retail of 

 drugs, medicine, poisons, or pharmaceutical preparations in his store or place 

 of business, except by or in the presence and under the immediate supervision 

 of a registered pharmacist, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon 

 conviction thereof, shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more 

 than one hundred dollars, and each week that he shall cause of permit such 

 pharmacy or retail drug store to be so conducted or managed shall constitute 

 a separate and distinct offense, and render him liable to separate prosecution 

 and punishment therefor. Laws 1898, p. 164- 



Statutes (Carroll), 1903, p. 1007. 



SALE OF POISONS. 



2630. Labels; register of sales; penalty. No person shall sell at retail any 

 poisons, except as herein provided, without affixing to the bottle, box, vessel, or 

 package containing same, a label printed or plainly written, containing the 

 name of the article, the word " poison," and the name and place of business of 

 the seller, with the common name of two or more readily accessible antidotes, nor 

 shall he deliver poison to any person without satisfying himself that such poison 

 is to be used for legitimate purposes. A poison in the meaning of this act, 

 shall be any drug, chemical or preparation, which, according to standard works 

 on medicine or materia inedica, is liable to be destructive to adult human life 



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