NEW MEXICO. 



The State board of pharmacy is given power to enforce the law 

 governing adulterations. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



3717. Charge of drug store. It shall be unlawful for any person, not a regis- 

 tered pharmacist within the meaning of this act, to conduct any drug store, 

 pharmacy, apothecary shop or store for the purpose of retailing, compounding 

 or dispensing medicines in the Territory of New Mexico, except as hereinafter 

 provided. 



3718. Prescriptions must T)e compounded by or under the supervision of a 

 registered pharmacist. It shall be unlawful for the proprietor of any such 

 store or pharmacy to allow any person, except a registered pharmacist, to com- 

 pound or dispense the prescriptions of physicians, except as an aid to, and 

 under the supervision of a registered pharmacist. Any person violating the 

 provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, .and on con- 

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

 hundred dollars, and upon a second conviction and proof thereof shall be fined 

 in a sum not less than one hundred dollars not more than two hundred dol- 

 lars. As amended March 15, 1905; Laws, 1905, p. 193. 



3726. Penalties; exemptions. Any person not a registered pharmacist, as 

 provided in this act, who shall conduct a store or pharmacy, or place for retail- 

 ing, compounding or dispensing drugs, medicines or chemicals, for medical 

 use, or for compounding or dispensing physicians' prescriptions in the Terri- 

 tory of New Mexico, or who shall take, use, or exhibit the title of, Registered 

 Pharmacist, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon a conviction 

 thereof, be liable to a penalty of not less than five, nor more than one hundred 

 dollars : Provided, That any person or persons not a registered pharmacist may 

 own and conduct such store if he or they keep constantly in their employ a 

 registered pharmacist: Provided, further, This act shall not apply to physi- 

 cians putting up their own prescriptions, nor to the sale of patent or proprie- 

 tary medicines, nor to the sale of those articles commonly known as Grocers' 

 Drugs, except those articles that are dominated, Poisons, under the law known 

 as the, New Mexico Poison Law; nor to any regularly licensed physician of the 

 Territory of New Mexico engaged in the drug business in towns or cities 

 situated twenty miles or more from a regular licensed pharmacist engaged in 

 the drug business. Laws, 1888-9, p. 118; as amended, Laws 1897, p. 144- 



Compiled Laws, 1897, p. 913-915. 



3729. Special permits. It shall be the duty of the said board to grant to 

 persons or merchants in towns or camps having no drug store, minor certifi- 

 cates without charge, as they may deem proper, to vend such medicines, com- 

 pounds or chemicals as are required by the general public : Provided, That this 

 law is not to be so construed as to prevent ranchmen or miners not within 

 reach of a store or place where drugs are sold from dispensing medicines to 

 their families or employes : Provided, further, That it shall be the duty of the 

 secretary of said board to render an accurate annual statement to the governor 



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