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(a) That the applicant is of good moral character, and if the applicant
be an association or corporation, that the managing officers are of good
moral character.

(b) That the applicant is equipped as to land, buildings and parapher-
nalia properly to carry on the business described in his application; and
that his trade connections are such that there is reasonable probability that
he will apply all narcotic drugs manufactured or sold by him to medicinal
and scientific purposes.

(c) That the applicant is in sufficiently good financial condition to
cany out his obligation, and that it is satisfactorily shown that the grant-
ing of such license is in the public interest.

(d) No license shall be granted to any person who has within five
years been convicted of a wilful violation of any law of the United States
or of any State, relating to opium, coca leaves or any other narcotic drug
or to any person who is a narcotic drug addict.

1935, ch. 59, sec. 285A.

285A. The State Department of Health may for cause suspend or
revoke any license so aforesaid issued. All licenses shall be issued for a
period of one year and renewals may be granted for a like period upon
payment of a renewal fee of five dollars ($5. 00).

1935, ch. 58, sec. 280B.

285B. A duly licensed manufacturer or wholesaler may sell and dis-
pense narcotic drugs to any of the following persons but only on official
written orders:

(a) To a manufacturer, wholesaler, pharmacist or pharmacy owner.

(b) To a physician, dentist or veterinarian.

(c) To a person in charge of a hospital, but only for use by or in that
hospital; provided, the official written order is signed by a physician,
dentist, veterinarian or pharmacist connected with such hospital.

(d) To a person in charge of a laboratory but only for use in that
laboratory for scientific and medicinal purposes.

A duly licensed manufacturer or wholesaler may sell narcotic drugs to
any of the following persons:

(a) On a special written order accompanied by a certificate of exemp-
tion, as required by the Federal narcotic laws, to a person in the employ
of the United States Government or of any State, territory, district,
county, municipality, or insular government, purchasing, receiving, pos-
sessing or dispensing narcotic drugs by reason of his official duties.

(b) To a master of a ship or a person in charge of any air craft upon
which no physician is regularly employed for the actual medical needs
of persons on board such, ship or air craft when not in port, provided such
narcotic drug shall be sold to the master of such ship or person in charge
of such air craft only in pursuance of a special order form approved by a
commissioned medical officer or acting assistant surgeon of the United
States Public Health Service.