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<section article="gcr" article_name="Criminal Law" number="10-103" title_number="10" title_name="Crimes Against Public Health, Conduct, and Sensibilities" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Crimes Against Public Health and Safety">
  <level label="a">
    <text>This section does not apply to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a physician licensed to practice medicine;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a government unit; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the otherwise lawful conduct of business between commercial, medical, pharmaceutical, scientific, or government units.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Except in accordance with a prescription written by a physician licensed to practice medicine, a person may not sell, dispense, or give to another a drug, medicine, preparation, substance, or a preparation containing a sulfonamide drug to alleviate, treat, or cure venereal disease.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A prescription under subsection (b) of this section shall include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the physician’s signature and address; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the date the prescription was written.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The person filling the prescription required under subsection (b) of this section:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>shall write on the prescription the date it was filled;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>shall keep the prescription on file for at least 2 years after it was filled;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>shall allow the prescription to be inspected by State and local health authorities; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>may not refill the prescription except on the order of the physician who wrote the prescription.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to a fine not exceeding:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>$50 for the first violation; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>$250 for each subsequent violation.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
