VIRGINIA. 



The State board of pharmacy, which is charged with the enforce- 

 ment of the law regulating the sale of adulterated .drugs, has been 

 unable for several years to carry out its provisions, owing to the fact 

 that no funds have been available for this purpose. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



1759. Conduct of drug stores; exemptions. It shall not be lawful for any per- 

 son not a registered pharmacist to open or control as proprietor any retail 

 drug or chemical store, or pharmaceutical department thereof, in this State, 

 unless he shall have in his employ and place in charge of such store or pharmacy, 

 or in the pharmaceutical department thereof, a registered pharmacist within the 

 meaning of this chapter, who shall have the supervision and management of 

 that part of the business requiring pharmaceutical skill and knowledge. And 

 it shall not be lawful for any person to engage in the business or occupation of 

 compounding or dispensing medicines on prescriptions of physicians or other- 

 wise, or to sell at retail any drugs, chemicals, poisons or pharmaceutical prepa- 

 rations within this State, without first obtaining a certificate of registry as pro- 

 vided in this chapter: provided, nothing in this section shall apply to, or in any 

 manner interfere with the regular practice of any physician or veterinary sur- 

 geon, or prevent him from supplying to his patients such articles as he may 

 deem proper, unless such physician or veterinary surgeon keep open shop for 

 the dispensing of such articles, or with the making or vending of patent or pro- 

 prietary medicines by any retail dealer in the original packages, or with the 

 manufacture or the exclusive wholesale business of any dealer : and provided, 

 further, that nothing in this act shall prevent or interfere with any retail drug- 

 gist or drug company or their employees from selling, compounding, dispensing 

 or manufacturing in the regular course of business any patent or proprietary 

 medicines, or such other pharmaceutical preparations, chemicals, drugs, or 

 articles as are patent or proprietary : and provided, further, that in rural dis- 

 tricts and in towns having a population of fifteen hundred or less, any physician 

 regularly licensed under the laws of Virginia may act as a pharmacist without 

 examination but subject to such registration and renewal as is provided for in 

 this act. 



1760. Provisions as to assistant pharmacists. A registered assistant phar- 

 macist within the meaning of this chapter shall be a clerk or assistant in a 

 retail drug or chemical store or pharmaceutical department who shall have 

 obtained a certificate as such registered assistant pharmacist from the board 

 of pharmacy under the provisions of this chapter; and it shall be unlawful 

 for such registered assistant pharmacist to supervise, manage, or take charge 

 of any pharmacy or retail drug or chemical store or pharmaceutical depart- 

 ment except that during the temporary absence of the registered pharmacist, 

 who is proprietor or manager thereof, he may act in the place of the said reg- 

 istered pharmacist; provided, that said temporary absence shall not in any 



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