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(s) "Registry Number" means the number assigned to each person
registered under the Federal narcotic laws.
Secs. 328-356 cited in construing Art. 35, Sec. 5. U. S. v. Sam Chin, 24 F. Supp. 14.

1935, ch. 59, sec. 284. 1937, ch. 154, sec. 284.

329. It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, possess, have
under his control, sell, prescribe, administer, dispense or compound any
narcotic drug, except as authorized in this sub-title.

No person shall manufacture, compound, mix, cultivate, grow, or by any
other process produce or prepare narcotic drugs, and no person as a whole-
saler shall supply the same without having first obtained a license so to do
from the State Department of Health. A fee of five dollars ($5.00) shall be
charged for any license so issued; and the receipts collected from such fees
may be retained by the Department and applied to the costs of preparing
and distributing the official order forms prescribed by Section 328 (q) of
this sub-title. The State Department of Health is authorized to make rules
and regulations governing the issue of any such license, provided, however,
that this section shall not apply to pharmacists, physicians, dentists and
veterinarians in the regular course of their legitimate professional activi-
ties. The Department is further authorized to make such rules and regula-
tions as it may deem necessary governing the use and sale of narcotic
drugs in respect of which it is required to issue official written order forms.

1935, ch. 59, sec. 285.

330. No license shall be issued unless and until the applicant therefor
has furnished proof satisfactory to the State Department of Health :

(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 to¹ medicinal
and scientific purposes.

(c) That the applicant is in sufficiently good financial condition to
carry 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.

331. 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).

¹ This way in Act.