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WASHINGTON. 



SESSION LAWS OF 1891, CHAPTER 163, TO KEGULATE THE PRACTICE OF PHARMACY. 



AN ACT to regulate the practice of pharmacy, the licensing of persons to carry on such practice, 

 and the sale of poisons in the State of Washington. 



Be it enacted by tlie Legislature of the State of Washington : 



SECTION 1. That it shall hereafter be unlawful for any person other than a reg- 

 istered pharmacist to retail, compound, or dispense drugs, medicines, or poisons, or 

 to institute any pharmacy, store, or shop for retailing, compounding, or dispensing- 

 drugs, medicines, or poisons, unless such person shall be a registered pharmacist, or 

 shall place in charge of said store a registered pharmacist, except as hereinafter 

 provided. 



SEC. 2. In order to be registered, all persons must be either graduates in pharmacy, 

 or shall, at the time this act takes effect, be engaged in the business of a dispensing 

 pharmacist on their own account in the State of Washington, the preparation of 

 physicians' prescriptions, and the vending and compounding of drugs, medicines, 

 and poisons, or shall be licentiates in pharmacy. 



SEC. 3. Graduates in pharmacy shall be considered to consist of such persons as 

 have had four years' practical experience in drug stores where prescriptions of med- 

 ical practitioners are compounded, and have obtained a diploma from such college 

 or schools of pharmacy as shall be approved by the board of pharmacy, as sufficient 

 guarantee of their attainment and proficiency. 



SEC. 4. Licentiates in pharmacy shall be such persons as shall have bad three 

 years' practical experience in drug stores \\herein the prescriptions of medical 

 practitioners are compounded, and have sustained a satisfactory examination before 

 the State board of pharmacy hereinafter mentioned. The State board may grant 

 certificates of registration to licentiates of such other State boards as it may deem 

 proper, without further examination. 



SEC. 5. As soon as this act shall take effect the Washington State pharmaceutical 

 association shall elect fifteen reputable and practicing pharmacists doing business 

 in the State, from which the governor shall appoint five. The said five pharmacists, 

 duly elected and appointed, shall constitute the hoard of pharmacy of the State of 

 Washington, and shall hold office, as respectively designated in their appointments, 

 for the term of one, two, three, four, or five years, as hereinafter provided, and 

 until their successors have been duly elected and appointed. The Washington State 

 pharmaceutical association shall annually elect five pharmacists, from which num- 

 ber the governor of the State shall appoint one to fill [the] vacancy annually occur- 

 ring in said board. The term of office shall be five years. In case of [a] vacancy 

 occurring from any cause, the governor shall fill the vacancy by appointing a phar- 

 macist, from the names submitted, to serve as a member of the board for the 

 remainder of the term. 



SEC. 6. The State board shall, within thirty days after the appointment, meet and 

 organize by the selection of a president and secretary from the number of its own 

 members, who shall be elected for the term of one year, and shall perform the duties 

 prescribed by the board. It shall be the duty of the board to examine all applicants 

 for registration submitted in the proper form ; to grant certificates of registration 

 to such persons as may be entitled to same under the provisions of this act ; to cause 

 prosecutions of all persons violating its provisions ; to report annually to the gov- 

 ernor and to the Washington State pharmaceutical association upon the condition 

 of pharmacy in the State, which said report shall also furnish a record of the pro- 

 ceedings of said board for the year, as well as all pharmacists duly registered under 

 this act. The board shall hold meetings for the transaction of such business as shall 

 pertain to its duties once in three months ; and the said board shall give 20 days' 

 public notice of the time and place of such meeting. The said board shall also have 

 power to make by-laws for the proper execution of its duties under this act, and shall 



