NORTH CAROLINA. 



The secretary of the State board of pharmacy may investigate 

 complaints of alleged adulterations of drugs and may institute 

 prosecutions. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



4. Exclusive rights defined; exceptions. It shall be unlawful for any person 

 not licensed as a pharmacist within the meaning of this act to conduct or 

 manage any pharmacy, drug or chemical store, apothecary shop or other place 

 of business for the retailing, compounding or dispensing of any drugs, chem- 

 icals or poison, or for the compounding of physicians' prescriptions, or to keep 

 exposed for sale at retail any drugs, chemicals or poison, except as hereinafter 

 provided, or for any person not licensed as a pharmacist within the meaning 

 of this act to compound, dispense or sell at retail any drug, chemical, poison 

 or pharmaceutical preparation upon the prescription of a physician or other- 

 wise, or to compound physicians' prescriptions except as an aid to and under 

 the immediate supervision of a person licensed ;is a pharmacist under this act. 

 And it shall be unlawful for any owner or manager of any pharmacy or drug 

 store or other place of business to cause or permit any other than a person 

 licensed as a pharmacist to compound, dispense or sell at retail any drug, 

 medicine or poison except as an aid to and under the immediate supervision 

 of a person licensed as a pharmacist: Provided, however, that nothing in this 

 section shall be construed to interfere with any legally registered practitioner 

 of medicine in the compounding of his own prescriptions, nor with the exclu- 

 sively wholesale business of any dealer who shall be licensed as a pharmacist 

 or who shall keep in his employ at least one person who is licensed as a phar- 

 macist, nor with the selling at retail of non-poisonous domestic remedies, nor 

 with the sale of patent or proprietary preparations which do not contain 

 poisonous ingredients, nor with the sale of poisonous substances which are sold 

 exclusively for use in the arts or for use as insecticides when such substances 

 are sold in unbroken packages bearing a label having plainly printed upon it 

 the name of the contents, the word " Poison ", the vignette of the skull and 

 cross bones and the name of at least two readily obtainable antidotes : Pro- 

 vided, further, that in any village of not more than five hundred inhabitants 

 the board of pharmacy may grant any legally registered practicing physician 

 a permit to conduct a drug store or pharmacy in such village, which permit 

 shall 'not be valid in any other village than the one for which it was granted, 

 and shall cease and terminate when the population of the village for which 

 such permit was granted shall become greater than five hundred : And provided 

 further, that the board of pharmacy may, after due investigation, grant to 

 any legally registered practicing physician in towns or villages of not more 

 than five hundred, and not exceeding six hundred inhabitants, a permit to 

 conduct a drug store or pharmacy in such town or village subject to the 

 provisions of this act. 



23. Penalty for illegally assuming rights of pharmacist. Any person, not 

 being licensed as a pharmacist, who shall conduct or manage any drug store, 

 pharmacy or other place of business for the compounding, dispensing or sale at 

 retail of any drugs, medicines or poisons, or for the compounding of physicians' 



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