MEDICINES AND PHARMACY,

REVISED STATUTES, 1902.

CHAPTER CCLXXV.

PHARMACY.

APPOINTMENT OF COMMISSIONERS OF PHARMACY.

Sec. 4721. There shall be three Commissioners of Pharmacy, all reputable pharmacists, to be appointed by the Governor from six persons to be annually nominated to him by the Connecticut Pharmaceutical Association.

TERM OF OFFICE, VACANCIES.

Sec. 4722. The Governor shall, on or before the first day of June in the year 1903, and annually thereafter, appoint one such Commissioner, who shall hold office for three years from the first day of Jung in the year of his appointment.

COMMISSIONERS TO KEEP RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS. Sec. 4723. Said Commissioners shall keep a record of their proceedings, and may give certified copies thereof, which shall be legal evidence.

PHARMACISTS TO BE LICENSED.

Sec. 4724. No person shall conduct or keep a place of any kind for retailing drugs, medicines, poisons, or such chemicals as are used in compounding medicines, or compound or dispense prescriptions of a physician, or vend medicines or poisons, unless he shall have been licensed therefor, as hereafter in this chapter provided, or shall be under the supervision of a licensed pharmacist.

MEETINGS OF COMMISSIONERS. GRANTING OF LICENSES.

Sec. 4725. The Comptroller shall designate a room in the Capitol for the meetings of said Commissioners, which shall be held in each year on the first Tuesdays of March, April, June, September, and December, and at such other times and places as they may deem necessary, tc

determine the qualifications of applicants for license as pharmacists; and said Commissioners shall license, by a certificate signed by them or by a majority of them, such persons as shall produce satisfactory evidence to them of their qualifications and attainments either by diploma granted to the applicant by some reputable College of Pharmacy, or by the certificate of some reputable pharmacist that the applicant has, for not less than three years prior to his application, received instruction in pharmacy and possesses the necessary qualifications of a pharmacist, or otherwise.

EXAMINATION OF APPLICANTS. CONTENTS OF LICENSE.

Sec. 4726. All applicants for a license, other than a renewal of a license previously granted by said Commissioners, shall be personally examined by them; provided, that such examinations may be omitted in the cases of applicants who exhibit to said Commissioners a diploma granted by some reputable College of Pharmacy, or a license in force within one year prior to the date of such application, granted by the Board of Commissioners of Pharmacy of another State, if such license shall be deemed sufficient evidence of qualifications by the Commissioners of Pharmacy of this State. Licenses shall specify the name of the person licensed, the date when granted, the city or town in which he shall conduct his business, and, if in a city, the street and number of his place of business; and his license shall be conspicuously exhibited in his place of business, and shall remain in force until the first day of April next after its date, unless granted at a meeting of said Commissioners on the first Tuesday of March, in which case such license shall terminate on the 31st day of March of the succeeding year, or unless such person shall remove his place of business without notice to the Commissioners; and a license may be renewed upon the application of the person licensed, as in Section 4727 provided.

LICENSE TO BE RENEWED ANNUALLY.

Sec. 4727. Every person conducting the business of pharmacy shall, on or before the first Tuesday of March annually, apply to said Commissioners for said license, or for a renewal thereof, and establish his right thereto by such evidence as shall be satisfactory to them; and they shall adopt forms of application for license, and rules and regulations prescribing the manner in which the evidence in support of such application shall be presented to them; and they shall furnish such forms and such rules and regulations to any person upon his request.

LICENSE FEES. PAY AND EXPENSES OF COMMISSIONERS. Sec. 4728. Each applicant shall pay to said Commissioners three dollars for his license and two dollars for each renewal thereof; and whenever a personal examination shall be made as provided in Section 4726,

a fee of five dollars; but if upon such examination a license shall be refused, said fee shall be refunded to said applicant, but if any such applicant shall make a new application and a license shall again be refused, said fee shall not in that case be refunded. Said Commissioners shall account semi-annually, on the first Tuesdays of December and June, with the Treasurer of the State, for the sums received by them for licenses, and shall be paid by the State at the time of such accounting the money necessarily expended by them for stationery and printing, and a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars per annum, to be expended by said Commissioners in the purchase of the necessary material and apparatus for the examination in practical laboratory work of applicants for licenses, and one hundred dollars per annum for clerical services, and compensation for their services at the rate of three hundred dollars per annum to each Commissioner; provided, that if the amount received by said Commissioners for said licenses shall not be sufficient to pay them said sums for services in full, such amount shall be apportioned, pro rata, among said Commissioners, and their charges for expenses for stationery and printing and for services shall be audited and approved in the proportion aforesaid by the Comptroller, who shall draw his order upon the Treasurer therefor.

CASES NOT COVERED BY PRECEDING SECTIONS.

Sec. 4729. Nothing contained in the preceding sections of this chapter shall prevent a practicing physician from compounding his own prescriptions, or prevent the sale of proprietary medicines, or prevent the sale of any drugs, medicines, or poisons at wholesale either to licensed pharmacists, or for use in manufactures or the arts, or prevent any person from becoming a partner in, or the proprietor of, a pharmacy conducted by a licensed pharmacist, or prevent any keeper of a country store from keeping for sale and selling such domestic remedies as are usually kept and sold in such stores; but such keeper shall not compound medicines, and medicinal preparations so kept and recognized by the United State dispensatory, shall be compounded by a licensed pharmacist and marked by his label.

PENALTY.

Sec. 4730. Every person who shall willfully violate any provision of the preceding sections of this chapter shall forfeit five dollars for each day that he shall continue such violation, one-half to him who shall prosecute to effect, and one-half to the town in which the offense is committed.

COMMISSIONERS MAY PROSECUTE AND REVOKE LICENSES. Sec. 4731. Said Commissioners may examine into all cases of alleged abuse, fraud, and incompetence; cause the prosecution of all per

sons not complying with the provisions of this chapter, and suspend and revoke the registration of any person convicted of violating the same.

Sec. 4732. Every person who shall knowingly adulterate, or cause any foreign or inert substance to be mixed with any drug or medicinal substance or preparation recognized by any pharmacopoeia, or employed in medicinal or medical practice, so as to weaken or destroy its medicinal effect, or shall sell such drug, compound, or preparation, knowing it to be so adulterated or mixed, shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, and upon conviction all such adulterated or mixed articles in his possession may be seized upon a warrant issued by the court in which such conviction is had, and destroyed by the officer by whom such seizure shall be made.

CHAPTER LIV.

AN ACT CONCERNING THE SALE OF POISONS.

Section 1. Section 4733 of the General Statutes is hereby amended to read as follows: Every person who shall sell arsenic, strychnine, corrosive sublimate, prussic acid, or cyanide potassium, shall affix to the package sold by him a label plainly marked with his name, date of sale, and the word "Poison," and the name of the poison sold, and shall enter at the time of such sale on a book kept by him for that purpose the name of the purchaser, date of sale, name of poison, and the quantity sold, which book shall be kept open for public inspection, carefully preserved; and when he shall close his business, or remove from the town in which such business is carried on, or when said book shall be filled with such entries, it shall be deposited by him in the office of the Town Clerk of the town in which he may conduct his business; and any person who shall violate the preceding provisions of this section, or who, when purchasing any of the articles herein named, shall give a false or fictitious name to the vendor thereof, shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars.

Approved April 29, 1903.

CERTAIN DRUGS TO BE MARKED "POISON."

PENALTY.

Sec. 4734. Every person who shall sell any of the articles named in the schedule accompanying this section, marked Schedule A, except when prescribed by a practicing physician, or sold at wholesale to

licensed pharmacists, or for use in manufactures or the arts, shall label the bottle, box, or wrapper containing any such article, with a label upen which shall be plainly written or printed the word "poison," and any person violating the provisions of this section shall be fined one dollar.

Schedule A.

Acid carbolic, ammoniated mercury, acid muriatic, chloroform, acid nitric, tincture aconite, acid sulphuric, tincture belladonna, acid oxalic, tincture digitalis, creosote, tincture opium, extract belladonna, tincture veratrum viride, sugar of lead, morphine, croton oil, nux vomica, cobalt, extract nux vomica, oil bitter almonds, opium, oil tansy, cocculus indicus, aqua ammonia, red oxide mercury, gelsemium, paris green, rat dynamite, Rough on Rats, or any article similar to the last three.

JURISDICTION OF PROSECUTIONS.

Sec. 4735. Police courts and city courts having criminal jurisdiction where established, and justices of the peace in towns where such courts do not exist, shall hear and determine prosecutions for violations of the foregoing provisions of this chapter.

LICENSED PHARMACISTS EXEMPT FROM OPERATION OF LAW RELATING TO PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.

Chapter 274, General Statutes, relating to the practice of medicine, contains in Section 4719 this exception f pharmacists:

"The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to licensed pharmacists."

SALE OF COCAINE AND EUCAINE RESTRICTED.

CHAPTER CXXVII.

An Act concerning the sale of certain Narcotic Drugs.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section I. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to sell, furnish, or give away any cocaine, salts of cocaine, eucaine or its salts, or any preparation containing any cocaine, or salts of cocaine, or eucaine or its salts, except upon the original written order or prescription of a lawfully authorized practitioner of medicine or veterinary medicine, which order or prescription shall be dated, and shall contain the name of the person for whom prescribed, or, if ordered by a practitioner of veterinary medicine, shall state the kind of animal for which ordered, and shall be signed by the person giving the prescription or order; and such written order or prescription shall be permanently retained on file by the person, firm or corporation who shall compound or dispense the articles ordered or prescribed, and it shall not be recompounded or dispensed a second time except upon the written order of the