202 DKUG LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES. 



ADULTERATION OF DRUGS. 



7. Merchants responsible for quality of drugs sold; exceptions; penalty. 

 Every applicant for registration as a pharmacist shall present to the commis- 

 sioners of pharmacy satisfactory evidence that he is a person of good moral 

 character and not addicted to drunkenness, and all persons whether registered 

 pharmacists or not, shall be held responsible for the quality of all drugs, chem- 

 icals and medicines they may sell or dispense, with the exception of those sold 

 in the original packages of the manufacturer, and those known as "patent 

 medicines." Any person who shall knowingly, intentionally and fraudulently 

 adulterate or cause to be adulterated any drugs, chemicals or medical prepara- 

 tions, or knowingly sell any adulterated drugs, chemicals or medical prepara- 

 tions, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, 

 be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars, and if he be a registered pharmacist, 

 his name shall be stricken from the register. 



Code, 1899, p. 992. 



12. Responsibility of enforcement. It shall be the duty of the board to inves- 

 tigate all complaints and charges of noncompliance or violation of the pro- 

 visions of this act, and to bring the same to the notice of the proper prosecuting 

 officer, as provided for in section seven of this act, whenever there appears to 

 the board reasonable grounds for such action. 



14. Penalty. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be 

 guilty of a misdemeanor, and for every such offense shall be fined not less than 

 twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, and (except as provided in 

 section seven of this act) the name of any person convicted of such violation 

 shall be stricken from the register and he shall no longer be a registered phar- 

 macist in this State. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the court in which, 

 or the justice of the peace before whom any conviction is had, to transmit forth- 

 with a certified copy of the record entry of such conviction to the commissioners 

 of pharmacy, who shall thereupon strike the name of the person so convicted 

 from the register. All fines collected under any of the provisions of this act 

 shall be paid one-half to the State school fund and the other half to the com- 

 missioners of pharmacy. 



Code, 1899, p. 994-995. 



