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PUBLIC LAW

764-JULY

24, 1956

order, the signature and office address of such practitioner, and in the case of an oral order, the District of Columbia or State registration number and office address of such practitioner (and if the practitioner be a member of the Armed Forces of the United States, then he shall give his rank, serial number, and station). Each oral order by a practitioner for a dangerous drug must be promptly reduced to writing by the pharmacist. (8) The term "hospital" means an institution or dispensary or clinic for the care and treatment of the sick and injured, approved by the Commissioners as proper to be entrusted with the custody of dangerous drugs and the professional use of dangerous drugs under the direction of a physician, dentist, or veterinarian. (9) The term "laboratory" means a laboratory approved by the Commissioners as proper to be entrusted with the custody of dangerous drugs and their use for medical and scientific purposes, and for purposes of instruction. (10) The term "manufacturer" means a person or persons, other than pharmacists and practitioners who manufacture dangerous drugs, and includes persons who prepare such drugs in dosage forms by mixing, compounding, encapsulating, entableting, or other process, or who repackage such drugs. (11) The term "wholesaler" means a person or persons engaged in the business of distributing dangerous drugs to persons included in any of the classes named in subdivisions (A) -and (D), inclusive, of section 205. (12) The term "drug salesman" or "manufacturer's representative" means any person who, acting in the course of his regular duties, calls upon or visits practitioners or pharmacists in the interest of demonstrating, selling, or detailing the use and sale of dangerous drugs. (13) The term "warehouseman" means a person who, in the usual course of business, stores drugs for others lawfully entitled to possess them, and who has no control over the disposition of such drugs except for the purpose of such storage. (14) The term "Commissioners" means the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, sitting as a board, or their designated agent or agents. PROHIBITED ACTS

SEC. 203. (a) Except as otherwise provided by sections 204 and 205 of this title, the following acts, the failure to act as hereinafter set forth, and the causing of any such act or failure are hereby declared unlawful: (1) The delivery of any dangerous drug unless— (A) such dangerous drug is delivered by a pharmacist, upon a prescription, and there is affixed to the immediate container of such or in which such drug is delivered a label bearing (i) the name and address of the owner of the establishment from which such drug was delivered; (ii) the date on which the prescription for such drug was filled; (iii) the number of such prescription as filed in the prescription files of the pharmacist who filled such prescription; (iv) the name of the practitioner who prescribed such drug; (v) the name and address of the patient, and if such drug was prescribed for an animal, a statement of the species of the animal; and (vi) the directions for the use of the drug, as contained in the prescription; or (B) such dangerous drug is delivered to a practitioner by a pharmacist for his professional use in his practice; in which case the pharmacist may deliver the drug without affixing any addi-

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