WASHINGTON. 



There are no special provisions for the enforcement of the law 

 regulating the adulteration of drugs. One-half of the fines collected 

 inure to the State board of pharmacy. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



1. Drugs must be dispensed by registered pharmacist. It shall hereafter be 

 unlawful for any person to compound or dispense drugs, medicines or poisons, 

 or to institute any pharmacy, store, or shop for wholesaling or retailing, com- 

 pounding or dispensing drugs, medicines or poisons, unless such person shall 

 be a registered pharmacist or shall place in charge of said pharmacy, store or 

 shop a registered pharmacist, except as hereinafter provided. 



13. Penalty. Any person not a registered pharmacist, and not having in his 

 employ a registered pharmacist -within the full meaning of this act, who shall 

 retail, compound or dispense medicines, or who shall take, use or exhibit the 

 title of registered pharmacist, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon 

 conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not to exceed fifty dollars. Any 

 person who shall permit the compounding and dispensing of prescriptions, or 

 vending of drugs, medicines or poisons in his store or place of business, except 

 under the supervision of a registered pharmacist, or any registered pharmacist 

 or shopkeeper registered under this act while continuing in business, who 

 shall fail or neglect to procure annually his renewal of registration, or any 

 person who shall willfully make false representations or to procure registration 

 for himself or any other person, or who shall violate any of the provisions of 

 this act willfully and knowingly, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 

 and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not to exceed fifty dollars; 

 Provided, That nothing in this act shall operate in any manner to interfere with 

 the business of any physician in regular practice, or to prevent him from sup- 

 plying to his patients such medicines as he may deem proper, nor with the mak- 

 ing or selling of proprietary medicine or medicines, placed in sealed packages, 

 nor with the exclusive wholesale business of any dealer, except as hereinafter 

 provided, nor prevent shopkeepers from dealing in and selling the commonly 

 used medicines and poisons or patent and proprietary medicines, if such med- 

 icines and poisons are sold in the original package of the manufacturer, or in 

 packages put up by a registered pharmacist. Laws, 1899, p. 216 and 221. 



Ballinger's Codes and Statutes, Supplement (Mahan), 1903, p. 334 and 

 338. 



SALE OF POISONS. 



15. Record; label; exception. The proprietor of every drugstore shall keep 

 in his place of business a registry book, in which shall be entered an accurate 

 record of all sales of mineral acids, carbolic acid, oxalic acid, hydrocyanic acid, 

 potassium cyanide, arsenic and its preparations, corrosive sublimate, red pre- 

 cipitate, preparations of opium (except paregoric), phosphorus, nux vomica 



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