OREGON. 



The State dairy and food commissioner is authorized to inspect 

 drugs and secure samples and transmit same for analysis to the chem- 

 ist of the State agricultural college. * The State board of pharmacy 

 may institute prosecutions for violations of that portion of the phar- 

 macy law which prohibits adulteration or substitution of drugs by 

 pharmacists. One-half of the fines collected inure to the board of 

 pharmacy. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



3803. Drug business must be conducted by registered pharmacist. From and 

 after the passage of this act, it shall be unlawful for any person not a registered 

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

 apothecary shop or store for the purpose of retailing, compounding, or dispens- 

 ing medicines or poisons, or for the proprietor of any store or pharmacy to 

 allow any person except a registered pharmacist to compound or dispense the 

 prescriptions of physicians, or to retail or dispense poisons for medical use, 

 except as an aid to and under the supervision of a registered pharmacist. 

 (Laws 1891, p. 157.) 



Codes and Statutes (Bellinger and Cotton), 1902, p. 1282. 



3813. Prosecutions by indictment; disposition of fines. Any person not being 

 a registered pharmacist, or who shall not have complied with all the provisions 

 of this act, who shall take, exhibit, or use the title of pharmacist, or who pro- 

 poses to or does compound or dispense prescriptions of medical practitioners, or 

 retail medicines or poisons to be used as medicines or poisons, or have not in 

 any way followed the provisions of this act, shall be subject to indictment for 

 each offense, and upon conviction shall be fined for the first offense fifty dol- 

 lars and the costs of the prosecution, and for each subsequent violation he shall 

 be fined one hundred dollars and the costs of the prosecution: Provided, that 

 nothing in this act shall be construed to apply to the business of a licensed 

 practitioner of medicine, nor to prevent such practitioner from supplying his 

 patients with such articles as he may deem proper, nor to those who sell medi- 

 cine or poisons by wholesale only, nor to the manufacture or sale of proprietary 

 or patent medicines. All actions for the recovery of the several penalties pre- 

 scribed in this act shall be prosecuted by the district attorney of the proper 

 county in the name of the State of Oregon, upon the relation of himself, or any 

 member of the board, and it shall be his duty to prosecute all persons violating 

 the provisions of this act and to sue for all penalties herein provided for, upon 

 proper complaint being made. All penalties collected under this act shall inure, 

 one half to the board of pharmacy and the remainder to the county treasurer 

 for the use of the school fund of the county in which the suit was prosecuted 

 and judgment obtained. (Lairs 1895, p. 116.) 



Codes and Statutes (Bellinger and Cotton), 1902, p. 1286. 



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