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Current as of January 01, 2024 | Updated by FindLaw Staff
Every person who, at retail, without receiving a physician's prescription specifying that such prescription shall contain a poison and giving the name thereof, sells, furnishes, gives away, or delivers to another:
1. Arsenic or any preparation thereof, corrosive sublimate, white precipitate, red precipitate, biniodide of mercury, cyanide of potassium, hydrocyanic acid, strychnia, or any other poison or vegetable alkaloid, or the salts thereof, or essential oil of bitter almonds; or
2. Aconite, belladonna, colchicum, conium, formaldehyde, nux vomica, henbane, savin, ergot, cotton root, cantharides, creosote, digitalis, or the pharmaceutical preparations of any of them, croton oil, chloroform, sulfate of zinc, mineral acids, carbolic acid, or oxalic acid,
without affixing to the bottle, box, vessel, or package containing the same, the name of the contents, the word “poison”, and the person's name and place of business, is guilty of a class A misdemeanor. Any storekeeper, however, may sell in original, unbroken packages, fungicides and insecticides, including formaldehyde and Paris green, generally used for agricultural purposes which have been designated as such by the state board of pharmacy.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - North Dakota Century Code Title 19. Foods, Drugs, Oils, and Compounds § 19-04-01. Selling certain enumerated poisons regulated--Penalty - last updated January 01, 2024 | https://codes.findlaw.com/nd/title-19-foods-drugs-oils-and-compounds/nd-cent-code-sect-19-04-01/
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