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 52 STAT.] 75TH COSNG., 3D SESS.-CH. 532-JUNE 20, 1938 disposed of, showing the exact kinds, quantities, and forms of such drugs; the persons from whom received and to whom delivered; by whose authority received, delivered, and destroyed; and the dates of the receipt, disposal, or destruction, which record shall be open to inspection by all Federal or District of Columbia officers charged with the enforcement of Federal and District narcotic laws. NOTICE OF CONVICTION TO BE SENT TO LICENSING BOARD SEC. 18. On the conviction of any person of the violation of any provision of this Act, a copy of the judgment and sentence, and of the opinion of the court or magistrate, it any opinion be filed, shall be sent by the clerk of the court, or by the magistrate, to the board or officer, if any, by whom the convicted defendant has been licensed or registered to practice his profession or to carry on his business, and the said board or officer may in its or his discretion suspend or revoke the license of the convicted defendant to practice his profes- sion or to carry on his business. On the application of any person whose license or registration has been suspended or revoked, and upon proper showing for good cause, said board or officer may rein- state such license or registration. RECORDS, CONFIDENTIAL SEC. 19. Prescriptions, orders, and records, required by this Act, and stocks of narcotic drugs, shall be open for inspection only to Federal and District of Columbia officers whose duty it is to enforce the laws of the District of Columbia, or of the United States relating to narcotic drugs. No officer having knowledge by virtue of his office of any such prescription, order, or record shall divulge such knowledge, except in connection with a prosecution or proceeding in court or before a licensing or registration board or officer, to which prosecution or proceeding the person to whom such prescrip- tions, orders, or records relate is a party. FRAUD OR DECEIT SEC. 20. (a) No person shall obtain or attempt to obtain a narcotic drug, or procure or attempt to procure the administration of a narcotic drug, (1) by fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, or subter- fuge; or (2) by the forgery or alteration of a prescription or of any written order; or (3) by the concealment of a material fact; or (4) by the use of a false name or the giving of a false address. (b) Information communicated to a physician in an effort unlaw- fully to procure a narcotic drug, or unlawfully to procure the administration of any such drug, shall not be deemed a privileged communication. (c) No person shall willfully make a false statement in any pre- scription, order, report, or record, required by this Act. (d) No person shall, for the purpose of obtaining a narcotic drug, falsely assume the title of, or represent himself to be, a manu- facturer, wholesaler, apothecary, physician, dentist, veterinarian, or other authorized person. (e) No person shall make or utter any false or forged prescrip- tion or false or forged written order. (f) No person shall affix any false or forged label to a package or receptacle containing narcotic drugs. (g) The provisions of this section shall apply to all transactions relating to narcotic drugs under the provisions of section 10 of this Act, in the same way as they apply to transactions under all other sections. 795 Notice of conviction to be sent to licensing board, etc. Reinstatement. Records to be kept confidential. Restriction on in- spection. Divulging of infor- mation prohibited. Fraud or deceit.

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