RHODE ISLAND. 



The State board of registration in pharmacy is charged with the 

 administration of the law relating to the sale of adulterated drugs, 

 but is only authorized to act after complaint has been made. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



1. Sales of drugs must Itc made under Kupcrrixion of or Inj a registered pliar- 

 macist. No person, unless a registered pharmacist, or registered assistant- 

 pharmacist in the employ of a registered pharmacist, or unless acting as an aid 

 under the immediate supervision of a registered pharmacist or a registered 

 assistant-pharmacist, within the meaning of this chapter, shall retail, com- 

 pound or dispense medicines or poisons, except as hereinafter provided. 



7. Penalty. Every person, not a registered pharmacist, who shall keep open 

 shop for the retailing and dispensing of medicines and poisons, or who shall 

 take, use or exhihit the title of registered pharmacist, and every person who 

 shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon the first convic- 

 tion, be fined fifty dollars and, upon the second and every subsequent convic- 

 tion, shall be fined one hundred dollars; and all fines recovered shall enure, 

 one-half thereof to the use of the state and one-half thereof to the use of the 

 complainant: Provided, lioirerer, that in towns or parts of towns where there 

 is no registered pharmacist within three miles, any person may sell the usual 

 domestic medicines put up by a registered pharmacist and marked with his 

 label ; such person procuring annually a certificate from the state board of 

 pharmacy therefor, and paying one dollar for such certificate. 



8. Exceptions. Nothing hereinbefore contained shall apply to any practi- 

 tioner of medicine who does not keep open shop for the retailing, dispensing 

 or compounding of medicines or poisons, nor prevent him from administering 

 or supplying to his patients such articles as he may deem fit and proper; nor 

 shall it interfere with the making and dealing in proprietary medicines, popu- 

 larly called patent medicines, unless such medicines be wholly or in part com- 

 posed of some of the articles enumerated in Schedule A of this chapter, nor 

 with the business of wholesale dealers in supplying medicines and poisons to 

 registered pharmacists and physicians, and for use in the arts; nor shall it 

 apply to such wholesale dealers in drugs and medicines in the trade on the 

 twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, as 

 the state board of pharmacy shall in their discretion deem suitable persons, 

 and who shall keep and maintain in their employ one or more registered assist- 

 ant-pharmacists, who shall have the sole charge and care of the compounding 

 and dispensing of all medicines and poisons sold at retail. 



General Laws, 1890, p. 401 and 408. 



SALE OF POISONS. 



9. Label; records. No person shall hereafter sell, either by wholesale or 

 retail, any of the poisons enumerated in Schedule A a of this chapter, without 



a See sec. 10, p. 17, for schedule. 

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