340 ARTICLE 27.

(d) No person shall make or utter any false or forged prescription or
written order.

(e) No person shall affix any false or forged label to a package or
receptacle containing narcotic drugs.

1035, ch 59, sec 285R

285R. The provisions of Section 285Q shall apply to all transactions
relating to narcotic drugs under the provisions of Section 285H in the
same way as they apply to transactions under all other sections.

1935, ch 59, sec. 285S.

285S. No person except a manufacturer or a wholesaler or a retail
dealer in surgical instruments, pharmacist, physician, dentist, veterinarian,
nurse or interne, shall at any time have or possess a hypodermic syringe or
needle or any instrument or implement adapted for the use of habit form-
ing drugs by hypodermic injections and which is possessed for the pur-
pose of administering habit forming drugs, unless such possession be
authorized by the certificate of a physician issued within the period of
one year prior hereto.

1935, ch 59. sec 285T

285T. In any complaint, information, or indictment, and in any ac-
tion or proceeding brought for the enforcement of any provision of this
sub-title, it shall not be necessary to negative any exception, excuse, proviso,
or exemption, contained in this sub-title, and the burden of proof of any
such exception, excuse, proviso, or exemption, shall be upon the de-
fendant.

1935, ch 59, sec 285U

285U. It is hereby made the duty of the State Department of Health,
it's officers, agents, inspectors and representatives, and of all peace officers
within the State, and of all State's Attorneys, to enforce all provisions of
this sub-title, except those specifically delegated, and to co-operate with
all agencies charged with the enforcement of the laws of the United States,
of this State and of all other States, relating to narcotic drugs.

In all prosecutions under this sub-title, the provisions of Section 4A
of Article 35 of the Code of Public General Laws shall not apply

1935. ch 59. sec. 285V

285V. Any person violating any provision of this sub-title shall, upon
conviction, be punished for the first offense by a fine not exceeding one
thousand dollars ($1, 000. 00) or by imprisonment, for not exceeding three
years, or both; and for any subsequent offense by a fine not exceeding
three thousand dollars ($3, 000. 00) or by imprisonment for not exceeding
five years, or both.