CHAPTER 165

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 54-442 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to sample packages of dangerous drugs so as to prohibit the posses-
ston of such drugs, with certain exceptions. [H 225]

Approved February 28, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 54-442 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 54-442. No person shall * have in his possession a dangerous drug
the sale of which is restricted to prescription by law unless such person
shall have obtained such dangerous drug on a prescription in accordance
with § 54-448, or such dangerous drug has been delivered by a practitioner
designated in § 54-448 lawfully practicing his profession. The provisions
of this section shall not apply to railroads, express companies and other
transportation agencies, scientific research and control laboratories, whole-
salers, manufacturers, warehousemen, or their agents, while engaged in
lawfully transporting or storing such drugs, or to any employee of the
same acting within the scope of his employment, or to any person deliver-
ing a bona fide prescription or to public officers or their employees in the
performance of their official duties requiring possession or control of
dangerous drugs; nor shall this section apply to pharmacies, physicians,
other licensed practitioners, hospitals, sanitaria, departments, agencies,
and others, to whom such drugs may be lawfully sold under the provi-
sions of § 54-445.