Chap. 42.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 8 of Chapter 86 of the Acts
of Assembly of 1934, approved March 5, 1934, short title of which is “Uniform
Narcotic Drug Act”, the section relating to preparations exempted. [S 8]

Approved February 27, 1948

Re it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section eight of chapter eighty-six of the Acts of
Assembly of nineteen hundred thirty-four, approved March fifth,
nineteen hundred thirty-four, be amended and reenacted as follows:

Section 8. Preparations exempted.—Except as otherwise in
this act specifically provided, this act shall not apply to the following
cases:

(1) Prescribing, administering, dispensing, or selling at retail
of any medicinal preparation that contains in one fluid ounce, or
if a solid or semi-solid preparation, in one avoirdupois ounce, (a)
not more than two grains of opium, (b) not more than one-quarter
of a grain of morphine or of any of its salts, (c) not more than
one grain of codeine or any of its salts, (d) not more than one-
eighth of a grain of heroin or of any of its salts.

(2) Prescribing, administering, dispensing, or selling at retail
of liniments, ointments, and other preparations, that are susceptible
of external use only and that contain narcotic drugs in such combi-
nations as prevent their being readily extracted from such liniments,
ointments, or preparations, except that this act shall apply to all
liniments, ointments, and other preparations, that contain coca
leaves in any quantity or combination.

The exemptions authorized by this section shall be subject to
the following conditions:

(a) No person shall prescribe, administer, dispense, or sell
at retail under the exemptions of this section, to any one person,
ot for the use of any one person or animal, any preparation or
preparations included within this section, when he knows, or can
by reasonable diligence ascertain, that such prescribing, administer-
mg. dispensing. or selling will provide the person to whom or
ior whose use, or the owner of the animal for the use of which such
preparation is prescribed, administered, dispensed, or sold, within
anv forty-eight consecutive hours, with more than four grains of
opium, or more than one-half grain of morphine or of any of its salts,
or more than five grains of codeine or of any of its salts, or more
han one-quarter of a grain of heroin or of any of its salts.

(b) The medicinal preparation, or the liniment, ointment, or
ther preparation susceptible of external use only, prescribed,
administered, dispensed, or sold, shall contain, in addition to the
narcotic drug in it, some drug or drugs conferring upon it medicinal
qualities other than those possessed by the narcotic drug alone.
Such preparation shall be prescribed, administered, dispensed, and
sold in good faith as a medicine, and not for the purpose of evading
the provisions of this act.

othing in this section shall be construed to limit the kind and
quantity of any narcotic drug that may be prescribed, administered,
dispensed, or sold, to any person or for the use of any person or
animal, when it is prescribed, administered, dispensed, or sold, in
compliance with the general provisions of this act. No person
other than a licensed pharmacist regularly employed in a registered
pharmacy shall sell or offer for sale to consumers any exempted
narcotic drug; provided, however, paragoric in original packages
and such other medicines as the Board of Pharmacy may designate
may be sold by merchants and retail dealers at their places of
business in rural communities and towns.