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4282. Omitting to label or mislabeUng drugs; prescriptions. Every apothe- 

 cary, druggist, or person carrying on business as a dealer in drugs or medi- 

 cines, or person employed as clerk or salesman by such person, who, in putting 

 np any drugs or medicines, or making up any prescription, or filling any order 

 for drugs or medicines, wilfully, negligently, or ignorantly omits to label the 

 same, or puts an untrue label, stamp, or other designation of contents, upon 

 any box, bottle, or other package, containing any drugs or medicines, or 

 substitutes a different article for any article prescribed or ordered, or puts 

 up a greater or less quantity of any article than that prescribed or ordered, or 

 otherwise deviates from the terms of the prescription or order which he 

 undertakes to follow, in consequence of which human life or health is endan- 

 gered, is guilty of a misdemeanor, or if death ensues, is guilty of a felony. 



Revised Statutes, 1898, p. 911. 



4065. Penalty for misdemeanor when not otherwise prescribed; corporations. 

 Except in cases where a different punishment is prescribed by law, every 

 offense declared to be a misdemeanor is punishable by imprisonment in a county 

 jail not exceeding six months, or by a fine in any sum less than three hundred 

 dollars, or by both. In all cases where a corporation is convicted of an 

 offense for the commission of which a natural person would be punishable as 

 for a misdemeanor, and there is no other punishment prescribed by law, such 

 corporation is punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars. 



Revised Statutes, 1898, p. 877. 



1726. Standard; alteration a misdemeanor. Unless otherwise prescribed for 

 or specified by the customer, all pharmaceutical preparations sold or dis- 

 pensed in a pharmacy, dispensary, store or place, shall be of the standard 

 .strength, quality and purity established by the last edition of the United 

 States Pharmacopoeia. Any person who shall wilfully adulterate or alter, 

 or cause or permit to be adulterated or altered, any drug, medicine or phar- 

 maceutical preparation, or shall sell or offer for sale any such adulterated or 

 altered article and any person who shall substitute one material for another 

 with the intent to defraud or deceive the purchaser, shall be guilty of a mis- 

 demeanor. All penalties collected for such violation shall be paid to the said 

 board of pharmacy to be held by it as hereinbefore directed. 



Revised Laws, 1898, p. 419, as amended, Laws 1903, p. 42. 



