NEVADA. 



The board of pharmacy may investigate alleged adulterations of 

 drugs and institute prosecutions. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



15. Penalty for violation of pharmacy law. Any person practicing pharmacy 

 or compounding drugs or medicines or filling physicians' prescriptions in this 

 State, without first complying with the provisions of this Act, shall be deemed 

 guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a 

 fine of not less than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county 

 jail for not less than fifty days, nor more than one hundred and eighty days 

 for each and every offense, or by both such fine and imprisonment Any person 

 may institute proceedings at law provided for in this Act, and it shall be the 

 duty of the Board of Pharmacy, or any member thereof, whenever satisfied that 

 any of the provisions of this Act have been violated, to institute, or cause to 

 be instituted, the proper proceedings for punishment thereof. 



Statutes, 1901, p. 127. 



9. Ncffliffcnre in diftpensinu dni</s a misdemeanor; penalty. Any person 

 who shall, after the passage of this Act, fail to use due care and reasonable 

 caution, or who shall be grossly negligent in compounding drugs or in the filling 

 of prescriptions, to the jeopardy of the health or life of the public, shall be 

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

 by a tine of not less than one hundred or more than five hundred dollars, or 

 by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than fifty days nor more than 

 one hundred (and) eighty days for each and every offense, or by both such 

 fine and imprisonment. 



10. Certificate may be refused or revoked. The Board may refuse a certifi- 

 cate to any individual guilty of unprofessional or dishonorable conduct, or when 

 said Board shall be advised by satisfactory and competent proof that the appli- 

 cant for such certificate is unduly careless, grossly negligent, or fails to use 

 reasonable precaution in the compounding of drugs or the filling of prescriptions, 

 to the jeopardy of the health or life of the public; and it is hereby further pro- 

 vided that, upon conviction of the offense set forth in section nine of this Act, 

 the certificate to practice pharmacy granted to the person so convicted shall be 

 in writing by the Board of Pharmacy forever revoked, and a copy of such revo- 

 cation shall be furnished the respective County Clerks and County Recorders 

 of the several counties within this State, and it shall be the duty of the respect- 

 ive County Clerks to keep and file said revocation and also to keep a list of the 

 persons whom said revocations name; and it shall be the duty of the respective 



See also Sale of Poisons, p. 120. 



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