Chap. 209.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Sections 1698-a, 1698-b, 1698-c, 1698-d
and 1698-e, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to hypnotic drugs.

[S B 219]
Approved March 13, 1942

_° |. Beit enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia, That sections
sixteen hundred and ninety-eight-a, sixteen hundred and ninety-eight-b,
sixteen hundred and ninety-eight-c, sixteen hundred and ninety-eight-d,
and sixteen hundred and ninety-eight-e, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 1698-a. In the following four sections, unless the context
otherwise requires, the words “dangerous drug” shall include:

(a) Diethyl Barbituric Acid (barbital), by whatsoever trade
name or designation; or any compound, preparation, mixture or solution
thereof; or any salt or derivative thereof or of barbituric acid possessing
hypnotic properties or effects ;

(b) Sulfanilamide (para-amino-benzene-sulfonamide), Sulfathia-
zole, Sultapyridine, Sulfadiazine, Sulfaguanidine and any sulfanilamide
derivatives by whatsoever trade name or designation; or any related com-
pound, preparation, mixture or salt thereof; or any salt or derivative
thereof ; or any preparation or mixture containing any of them.

Section 1698-b. No person other than a licensed pharmacist shall
sell or offer to sell any dangerous drug to consumers or have such drug
in his possession with intent to sell or give away to consumers.

‘Section 1698-c. No person shall sell or give away any dangerous
drug to a consumer except on the prescription of a doctor of medicine,
doctor of dental surgery, or doctor of veterinary surgery, lawfully prac-
ticing his profession, which prescription may not be refilled; except that
prescriptions containing Barbituric Acid or derivatives thereof for per-
sons suffering from chronic afflictions or diseases may, upon written
authorizations on the face of the prescription by the prescriber, be refilled
a definite number of times, as indicated, or indefinitely if so specified by
the prescriber ; and except that prescriptions containing in a mixture or
compound a derivative of Barbituric Acid, which derivative does not
constitute the principal constituent of the mixture or compound, may be
refilled unless the prescriber specifies in writing on the face of the pre-
scription that it shall not be refilled. No person shall give away or dis-
tribute any sample package containing a dangerous drug.

Section 1698-d. Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit
the sale of dangerous drugs to, nor to the dispensing of dangerous drugs
‘in the course of their professional practice by, doctors of medicine, doctors
of dental surgery, or doctors of veterinary surgery, lawfully practicing
their profession in this State, or to registered retail or wholesale pharma-
cists, or to hospitals and other institutions for the treatment of defective,
afflicted, sick and injured persons; and nothing in this section shall pre-
vent the sale by a registered pharmacist without a prescription of prepara-
tions containing drugs in the Sulfanilamide group intended for external
use only and compounded so as to be unfit for internal use and plainly
labeled ‘For External Use Only”.

Section 1698-e. Any person who shall violate any provision of
sections sixteen hundred and ninety-eight-b, sixteen hundred and ninety-
eight-c, or sixteen hundred and ninety-eight-d, shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof for-the first offense shall be
fined not more than one hundred dollars, and upon conviction of a second
offense shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or shall be
imprisoned in jail not exceeding six months, or both, at the discretion of
the court.