CHAPTER 298

An Act to restrict the sale of certain commodities; to require certain per-
mits and prescribe the fees therefor; to confer the rule making power
upon the State Board of Pharmacy and to impose upon it certain
duties; to prohibit certain acts, provide penalties for violations and
provide for the destruction of certain property; and to provide for
the disposition of certain funds.

[S 196]

Approved March 11, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. No drug, medicinal preparation, appliance, device or other article
intended or having special utility for the prevention of venereal disease,
hereinafter referred to as device, shall be sold or otherwise disposed of in
this State except by duly licensed practitioners of medicine; and in phar-
macies and retail outlets. Pharmacies and retail stores desiring to sell
such devices shall apply in writing to the State Board of Pharmacy and
the Board shall issue a permit for the sale thereof. Such devices may be
sold by wholesalers regularly transacting business as such, but it shall be
unlawful for any wholesaler to knowingly sell such devices to any un-
licensed retailer.

§ 2. The offering for sale, distribution or other disposition by means
of a vending machine or other automatic machine of such devices is ex-
pressly prohibited.

§ 8. Any such vending machine or other automatic machine shall
be destroyed when found in violation hereof. Possession of such devices
by any unlicensed retailer in his place of business shall be prima facie
evidence of sale. .

§ 4. The State Board of Pharmacy shall enforce the terms of this
act and may establish minimum standards of quality for such devices
which standards of quality shall be such as will tend to reduce the likelli-
hood of contracting a venereal disease.

§ 5. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this act or
regulation of the Board shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.