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Delaware Code Title 4. Alcoholic Liquors and Marijuana § 722. Physicians, dentists and pharmacists

Current as of January 01, 2026 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) No provision of this title shall prevent any individual who is licensed in this State to practice medicine, surgery or obstetrics, or dentistry, or veterinary medicine or surgery from purchasing alcoholic liquor in quantities larger than 1 bottle and keeping and using the same for purposes of solution or sterilization in the licensed individual's own practice, or in making a preparation for external application to be administered by the licensed individual, or from purchasing brandy, as defined in the United States Pharmacopoeia, or rum, for use in compounding the licensed individual's medicines.

(b) No owner, lessee or manager conducting a pharmacy or drugstore shall sell or dispense, on the premises conducted as a pharmacy or drugstore, alcoholic liquor for any other purpose than medicinal, scientific and industrial purposes.  No provision of this title shall prevent any holder of a license for a pharmacy under § 517 of this title from:

(1) Purchasing alcoholic liquor in quantities larger than 1 bottle, for use in medicinal, official or pharmaceutical preparations, but no such person may sell such alcoholic liquor except when contained in such preparations or when filling a prescription, or an order of an individual holder of license under § 518 of this title;  or

(2) Purchasing ethyl alcohol in quantities larger than 1 bottle, and selling the same for obstetrical or antiseptic purposes only, in quantities not exceeding 16 ounces, upon prescription of an individual practicing medicine, surgery or obstetrics and registered as such in this State, or upon the certificate of the latter if the sale be made to the pharmacy license holder personally.

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