SOUTH CAROLINA. 



The State board of health has authority to make regulations to 

 facilitate the enforcement of the law and to conduct such analytical 

 investigations as it may deem necessary. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



1118. Pharmacist* -must be licensed. Every pharmaceutist, apothecary and 

 retail druggist, who has not been previously licensed according to law, who car- 

 ries on and conducts the business of such occupation in this State must have a 

 license therefor from one of the above named Board. [Board of Pharmaceutical 

 Examiners.] 



1120. Kj'ccptionx. * * * Provided, however, That outside of cities, towns 

 and villages, and in towns or villages of three hundred inhabitants or less, 

 where there is no regular pharmacist, practicing physicians shall have the right 

 to compound and sell medicines upon their obtaining a special license from 

 said Board of Pharmaceutical Examiners and paying therefor a fee of five 

 dollars. 



Nothing in this article, however, shall be construed as intending to hinder or 

 prohibit any physician lawfully engaged in the practice of his profession any- 

 where within this State from putting up his own prescriptions or dispensing 

 his own medicines. 



Code, 1902, vol. 1, p. 434-435. 



302. Pharmacist must have license; penalty. Every pharmacist, apothecary 

 or retail druggist who has not been previously licensed according to law who 

 carries on and conducts the business of such occupation in this State must have 

 a license therefor from the Board of Pharmaceutical Association of South Caro- 

 lina; and any person who shall carry on and conduct the business of said 

 occupations, or any of them, without such license shall be liable to indictment 

 as for a misdemeanor, and on conviction subject to a fine not exceeding five 

 hundred ($500) dollars or imprisonment not exceeding six months. 



303. Prescriptions to be compounded only 1)y licensed pharmacist. It shall not 

 be lawful for the proprietor of any pharmaceutical shop to allow any person 

 not qualified in accordance with the laws of this State regulating the licensing 

 of apothecaries and the sale of drugs and medicines to dispense poison or com- 

 pound the prescriptions of physicians; and any person who upon indictment 

 for violation of this Section shall be convicted of the same shall pay a fine not 

 exceeding five hundred dollars or suffer imprisonment for a period not more 

 than six months. 



304. Enforcement. The Pharmaceutical Association of the State of South 

 Carolina is hereby authorized and directed to prosecute all persons violating 

 the provisions of the two preceding Sections or any of them. In case any per- 

 son convicted of violating any of the. provisions of the same be punished by 

 fine, one-half of said fine to be paid to the informer through whose agency 

 such conviction shall be had. 



Code, 1902, vol. 2, p. 332. 



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