CHAPTER 171

An Act to amend and reenact § 54-481 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to dispensing of drugs by practitioners of the healing arts. CH 682]

Approved March 15, 1966

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 54-481 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as

OWs:

§ 54-481. This chapter shall not be construed to interfere with any
legally qualified practitioner of medicine, dentistry, osteopathy or veteri-
nary medicine, who is not the proprietor of a store for the dispensing or
retailing of drugs, or who is not in the employ of such a proprietor, in the
compounding of his own prescriptions, or to prevent him from supplying
to his patients such medicines as he may deem proper, if such supply is
not made as a sale, and such practitioner, in cases of emergency where
there is an immediate need of medicines, or in cases where a patient does
not have reasonably prompt and convenient access to a pharmacy where
the proper drugs or medicines can be procured, may make a reasonable
charge for the drugs or medicines so dispensed, and the making of the
charge shall not cause the dispensing to be made as a sale under the pro-
visions of this chapter.