MONTANA. 



There is no officer specifically charged with the administration of 

 the law regulating the adulteration of drugs. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



640. ('ftiHjtoiindiiiu or rendiinj drui/x; in clmri/r of plturiiKici/. It shall here- 

 after be unlawful for any person other than a registered pharmacist, as herein- 

 after defined, to retail, compound or dispense drills, medicines or pharmacal 

 preparations, in the state of .Montana, or to institute, conduct or manage a 

 pharmacy, store or shop for the retailing, compounding or dispensing drugs, 

 medicines or pharmacal preparations, in the state of Montana, unless such 

 person shall he a registered pharmacist, as this act provides, or shall place in 

 charge of said pharmacy, store or shop, a registered pharmacist, except as 

 hereinafter provided. 



649. Penalty. Any person who is not a registered pharmicist in the meaning 

 of this act, who shall keep a pharmacy, store or shop for the compounding and 

 dispensing of physicians' prescriptions, or for the sale of drugs, medicines, or 

 chemicals, and who shall not have in his employ in said pharmacy, store or 

 shop, a registered pharmacist, in the meaning of this act, shall for each and 

 every such offense, he liable to a tine of two hundred and fifty dollars. 



Codes, 1895, vol. 1, p. SS and 1)1. 



651. Conditions of .sv//r hi/ oilier* tJnni rc<iixtered ]>]i<irnnieists ; provisos. Any 

 proprietor of a pharmacy, or other person, who shall permit the compounding 

 and dispensing of physicians' prescriptions, or the vending of drugs, medicines 

 or pharmacal preparations, in his store or place of business, except by a regis- 

 tered pharmacist, in the meaning of this act, or under the immediate super- 

 vision of a registered pharmacist, or who, while continuing in the pursuit of 

 pharmacy in the state of Montana, shall fail or neglect to procure his annual 

 registration, or any person who shall willfully make any false representations to 

 procure for himself, or for another, registration under this act, or who shall 

 violate any other provision of this act, shall, for each and every offense, be 

 liable to a fine of one hundred dollars; Provided, That nothing in this act shall 

 interfere with the business of those merchants who keep on sale such poisons, 

 acids and chemicals as are regularly used in agriculture, mining and the arts, 

 when kept and sold for such purposes only, in sealed and plainly labeled pack- 

 ages; Provided, also, that nothing in this act shall in any manner interfere with 

 the business of any physician in regular practice, nor prevent him from supply- 

 ing to his patients such articles as may seem proper, nor with exclusive whole- 

 sale business of any dealers, except as hereinafter provided ; Provided, also, 

 that nothing in this act shall in any manner interfere with the business of mer- 

 chants in towns having less than five hundred inhabitants, in which there is no 

 licensed pharmacy, to sell or vend such medicines, compounds and chemicals as 

 are required by the general public. 



Codes, 1895, vol. 1, p. 91, 

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