NORTH DAKOTA. 



The State agricultural experiment station is charged with the 

 enforcement of the pure drug law. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



7280. Penalty for unlawfully acting as pharmacist. Every person who is not 

 a registered pharmacist, or has not a registered pharmacist in his employ and 

 who, either : 



1. Takes, uses or exhibits, the title or certificate of a registered pharmacist; 

 or, 



2. Retails, compounds or dispenses medicine ; or, 



3. Permits 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, 



4. Violates or fails or neglects to comply with and observe any provision of 

 law relating to or regulating the practice of pharmacy ; and every person who, 



5. Willfully makes any false representation to procure registration as a 

 pharmacist for himself or for any other person, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and 

 upon conviction thereof. 



Is punishable by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars. (Laws 1893, p. 196.) 



7281. Exceptions. The provisions of the last section shall not be construed 

 to interfere in any manner with the business of a physician in regular practice ; 

 nor to prevent such physician from supplying his patients with whatever he 

 may deem necessary ; nor to prevent him from receiving a certificate as a 

 registered pharmacist as provided by law ; nor to interfere with the making 

 or compounding of proprietary medicines or medicines placed in sealed packages 

 with the name of the contents and of the person by whom prepared or com- 

 pounded ; nor to prevent shop keepers from dealing in or selling the commonly 

 used medicines and poisons, if such medicines or poisons are put up by a regular 

 pharmacist ; nor from dealing in and selling patent or proprietary medicines ; 

 nor to interfere with the exclusive wholesale business of any dealer. (Laws, 

 1893, p. 197.) 



Revised Codes, 1899, p. 1455-1456. 



SALE OF POISONS." 



7303. Regulations. No druggist, apothecary or other person dealing or traf- 

 ficking in drugs or medicines, and no person employed as clerk or salesman by 

 any apothecary or druggist, shall sell or give away any poison or poisonous 

 substances, except to practicing physicians, in their ordinary practice of medi- 

 cine, without recording in a book, to be kept for that purpose, the names of the 

 person or persons receiving such poison, and his, her or their residence, except- 

 ing upon the written order or prescription of some practicing physician whose 

 name must be attached to such order or prescription. No person shall sell, 



See also p. 146, sees. 4, 5, and 6. 



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