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CHAPTER 361 OF THE LAWS OF 1884. 



AN ACT to establish a State board of pharmacy, and to regulate the practice of pharmacy throughout 

 the State of New York, except in the counties of New York, Kings, and Erie. 



Passed May 24, 1884 ; three-fifths being present. 



The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as 

 follows: 



SEC. 14 (as amended by L. 1887, ch. 676). This act shall not apply to the counties 

 of New York, Kings, and Erie: Provided, however, That a license as a pharmacist, 

 granted anv person after examination by any board of pharmacy legally created 

 under the laws of this State, shall entitle said persons to a license, or a certificate of 

 registration as a pharmacist, from any board of pharmacy legally created under the 

 laws of this State upon presenting to such board his said license and complying 

 with the formal requirements of said laws. 



CHAPTER 181 OF THE LAWS OF 1889. 



AN ACT relating to the practice of pharmacy. 



Became a law without the approval of the governor, in accordance with the pro- 

 visions of article four, section nine, of the constitution, April 24, 1889. Passed, 

 three-fifths being present. 



The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as 

 follows : 



SECTION 1. To entitle any person to a license as a pharmacist or assistant pharmacist 

 from any board of pharmacy created under the laws of this State he must prove to 

 the board of pharmacy to which application is made, in addition to the present 

 requirements of the law xelatiug to the granting of licenses by such boards, that he 

 is a resident of the city, county, or district for which the board of pharmacy to 

 which application is made is created, or, if a nonresident, that he intends to prac- 

 tice in said city, county, or district; that he has not applied for a license to, or 

 been examined by, any other board of pharmacy of this State and been refused such 

 license within six months immediately preceding, which proof may bo made by 

 his own affidavit. 



SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are 

 hereby repealed. 



SEC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately. 



THE PENAL CODE OP THE STATE OF NEW YORK. 



SEC. 401. An apothecary, or druggist, or a person employed as clerk or salesman 

 by an apothecary or druggist, or otherwise carrying on business as a dealer in 

 drugs or medicines, who, in putting up any drugs or medicines, or making up any 

 prescription, or filling any order for drugs or medicines, willfully, negligently, or 

 ignorautly omits to label the same, or puts any untrue label, stamp, or other desig- 

 nation of contents upon any box, bottle, or other package containing a drug or 

 medicine, 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 under- 

 takes to follow, in consequence of which human life or health is endangered, is 

 guilty of a misdemeanor. 



SEC. 402. An apothecary, or druggist, or a person employed as clerk or salesman 

 by an apothecary or druggist, or otherwise carrying on business as a dealer in 

 drugs or medicines, who sells or gives any poison or poisonous substance without 

 first recording in a book, to be kept for that purpose, the name aud residence of the 

 person receiving such poison, together with the kind and quantity of such poison 

 received, and the name and residence of some person known to such dealer as a 

 witness to the transaction, except upon the written order or prescription of some 



