Chap. 251.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 1 of Chapter 86 of the Act:
of Assembly of 1934, approved March 5, 1934, relating to cocaine and othe
similar drugs and mixtures thereof. {S170

Approved March 16, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly ot Virginia:

1. That section one of chapter eighty-six of the Acts of Assembh
of nineteen hundred thirty-four, approved March five, nineteen hundre
thirtv-four, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 1. Definitions —The following words and phrases, as usec
in this act, shall have the following meanings, unless the context other
wise requires :

(1) “Person” includes any corporation, assocation, co-partnerhip
or one or more individuals.

(2) “Physician” means a person authorized by law to practic
medicine in this State and any other person authorized by law to trea
sick and injured human beings in this State and to use narcotic drug
in connection with such treatment.

(3) “Dentist”? means a person authorized by law to practice dentis
try in this State.

(4) “Veterinarian” means a person authorized by law to practic
veterinary medicine in this State.

(5) “Manufacturer” means a person who by compounding, mixing
cultivating, growing, or other process, produces or prepares narcoti
drugs, but does not include an apothecary who compounds narcotic drug
to be sold or dispensed on prescriptions.

(6) “Wholesaler” means a person who supplies narcotic drugs th
he himself has not produced nor prepared, on official written orders, bu
not on prescriptions.

(7) “Apothecary” means a licensed pharmacist as defined by th
laws of this State and, where the context so requires, the owner of
store or other place of business where narcotic drugs are compounde
or dispensed by a licensed pharmacist; but nothing in this act shall b
construed as conferring on a person who is not registered nor license
as a pharmacist any authority, right or privilege, that is not granted t
him by the pharmacy laws of this State.

(8) “Hospital” means an institution for the care and treatmer
of the sick and injured, approved by the State Board of Pharmacy a
proper to be entrusted with the custody of narcotic drugs, and the prc
fessional use of narcotic drugs under the direction of a physician, dentis
or veterinarian.

(9) “Laboratory” means a laboratory approved by the State Boar
of Pharmacy as proper to be entrusted with the custody of narcotic drug
and the use of narcotic drugs for scientific and medical purposes and fc
purposes of instruction.

(10) “Sale” includes barter, exchange, or offer therefor, and eac
such transaction made by any person, whether as principal, proprieto
agent, servant, or employee.

(11) “Coca leaves” includes cocaine and any compound, mant
facture, sale, derivative, mixture, or preparation of coca leaves, except
derivatives of coca leaves which do not contain cocaine, ecgonine, or sub-
stances from which cocaine or ecgonine may be synthesized or made.

(12) “Opium” includes morphine, codeine, and heroin, and any
compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of
opium.

(12 a) “Isonipecaine” means the substance identified chemically
as 1 -methyl - 4 -phenyl -piperidine - 4 -carboxylic acid ethyl ester ; other-
wise known as DEMEROL, or any salt thereof by whatever trade name
identified.

(13) “Narcotic drugs” means coca leaves and opium, and Isonipe-
caine and every substance not chemically distinguishable from them.

(14) “Federal narcotic laws’? means the laws of the United States
relating to opium, coca leaves, and other narcotic drugs.

) .“Official written order” means an order written on a form
provided for that purpose by the United States Commissioner of Nar-
cotics, under any laws of the United States making provision therefor,
if such order forms are authorized and required by Federal law, and if
no such order form is provided then on an official form provided for
that purpose by the State Board of Pharmacy.

(16) “Dispense” includes distribute, leave with, give away, dis-
pose of, or deliver.

(17 ) “Registry number”? means the number assigned to each per-
son registered under the Federal narcotic laws.