Chap. 99.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1682 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as heretofore amended, relating to and regulating the compounding and
retailing of drugs, drug products and domestic remedies, providing for the
inspection of places where the same are manufactured and sold; so as to re-

quire certain equipment and making unlawful certain signs and ee oe

Approved March 3, 1936

1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That section
sixteen hundred and eighty-two of the Code of Virginia as heretofore
amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1682. (a), Except as prescribed in this chapter it shall
be unlawful for any person to practice as a pharmacist, or assistant
pharmacist, or to engage in, carry on, or be employed in the dis-
pensing, compounding or retailing of drugs, medicines or poisons
within this State; the possession by any person in any place other
than a private home or a place of storage, of a miscellaneous stock
of bulk pharmaceuticals, drugs, or medicinal preparations not in orig-
inal packages shall be prima facie evidence that such person is prac-
ticing pharmacy.

(b) Every registered pharmacy must be equipped with proper
pharmaceutical utensils so that prescriptions can be properly filled
and United States Pharmacopoeia and National Formulary prepara-
tions properly compounded. The Virginia Board of Pharmacy shall
prescribe the minimum of such professional and technical equipment
which a pharmacy shall at all times possess, and such list shall in-
clude the latest revisions of the United States Pharmacopoeia and the
National Formulary. No permit shall be issued or continued for
the conduct of a pharmacy until or unless the provisions of this par-
agraph (b) have been complied with.

(c) The members of the Virginia Board of Pharmacy and their
duly authorized agents shall have the power to inspect in a lawful
manner the medicines and drugs or drug products or domestic reme-
dies which are manufactured, packed, packaged, made, sold, offered
for sale, exposed for sale, or kept for sale, in the State, and for this
purpose shall have the right to enter and inspect during business
hours any pharmacy, or any other place in the State of Virginia
where medicines or drugs or drug products or domestic remedies are
manufactured, packed, packaged, made, sold, offered for sale, exposed
for sale, or kept for sale.

(d) It shall be unlawful for any place of business which is not a
pharmacy as defined in this chapter to advertise or to have upon it
or in it as a sign the words, “pharmacy,” “pharmacist,” “apothecary,”
“drug store,” “druggist,” “drugs,” “medicine store,” “drug sundries,”
“prescriptions filled” or any like words indicating that drugs are
compounded or sold or prescriptions filled therein. Each day during
which, or a part of which, such advertisement appears or such sign
is allowed to remain upon or in such place of business shall constitute
a separate offense under this section.

(e) Any person, firm or corporation may own and conduct a
pharmacy, as herein defined, provided the same is conducted and op-
erated under the personal supervision of a registered pharmacist, but
during the temporary absence of such registered pharmacist, a reg-
istered assistant pharmacist may act in place of the said registered
pharmacist,

({) Nothing in this act contained shall be construed to prohibit
or make unlawful the employment in pharmacies conducted under the
personal supervision of a registered pharmacist, of other than regis-
tered and registered assistant pharmacist for purposes other than the
compounding and sale of drugs, medicines and poisons, or the permit-
ting such employees to make sales of articles other than drugs, med-
icines and poisons, or of patent and proprietary medicines and non-
poisonous drugs and medicines in original packages.

(g) The board of pharmacy may, in its discretion, issue permits
to such pharmacies as may be temporarily not under the supervision
of a registered pharmacist to remain open for business for a period
not to exceed ten days, but such pharmacy may not during such pe-
riod sell any poisons, nor compound or dispense physicians’ prescrip-
tions. Pharmacies desiring such permit must make application to the
board of pharmacy, setting forth the circumstances upon which their
applications are based.