MINNESOTA. 



The board of pharmacy may institute civil or criminal proceedings 

 to recover the penalties prescribed for the sale of adulterated drugs. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



7933. Penalties; " drugs, medicines, and poisons " defined; exemptions. Any 

 person not being or not having in his employ a registered pharmacist within 

 the full meaning of this act, who shall, after this act shall take effect, retail, 

 compound or dispense drugs, medicines or poisons, or who shall take, use or 

 exhibit the title of a registered pharmacist, shall for each and every such 

 offense be liable to a penalty of fifty dollars. Any registered pharmacist or 

 other person who shall permit the compounding or dispensing of prescriptions 

 or the vending of drugs, medicines or poisons in his store or place of business. 

 except under the supervision of a registered pharmacist or by a registered 

 assistant, and any pharmacist or registered assistant, who, while continuing in 

 business, shall fail or neglect to procure annual registration, and any person 

 who shall willfully make any false representation to procure registration for 

 himself or any other person, or who shall violate any other provision of this act, 

 shall, except as otherwise provided, for each and every such offense be liable to 

 a penalty of fifty dollars. Except as in this section hereafter provided, drugs, 

 medicines and poisons shall, for all purposes of this act, be construed to include 

 all substances, animal, vegetable or mineral, commonly kept in stock in drug 

 stores or apothecary shops and used in compounding medicines or sold for 

 medical purposes. 



It is provided, however, That nothing in this act shall in any manner interfere 

 with the regular practice of any physician as such, or prevent him as a physician 

 from supplying to his patients such articles as may seem to him proper, or shall 

 interfere with the making or vending of proprietary medicines, or with the sale 

 by general retail dealers of any of the following articles, that is to say : 



Alum, Epsom Salts, Rolled Sulphur, 



Blue Vitriol, Glauber Salts, Saltpetre. 



Borax, Glycerine, Senna Leaves, 



Carbonate of Ammonia, Gum Arabic, Subliment Sulphur, 



Carbonate of Soda, Gum Camphor, Water of Ammonia, 



Castor Oil, Licorice, 



Copperas, Logwood, 



or with the sale by such retail dealers of Paris green kept in stock in sealed 

 packages and so sold, distinctly labeled " Paris Green, Poison ", or shall pre- 

 vent a shopkeeper whose place of business is more than one mile from a drug 

 store or apothecary shop, from dealing in and selling the commonly used 

 medicines and poisons, if put up for such sale by a registered pharmacist; or 

 interfere with the exclusively wholesale business of any dealers, except as 

 hereinbefore provided. (Laws 1885, p. 182, as amended 1891, p. 172-177.) 

 Statutes, 1894, vol. 2, p. 2087. 



o So in Statutes. 

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