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(r) "Dispense" includes distribute, leave with, give
away, dispose of or deliver.

(s) "Registry Number" means the number assigned to
each person registered under the Federal narcotic laws.

284. 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 author-
ized 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 wholesaler 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. The
State Department of Health is authorized to make rules and
regulations governing the issue of any such license, pro-
vided, however, that this section shall not apply to phar-
macists, physicians, dentists and veterinarians in the regu-
lar course of their legitimate professional activities.

285. 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 paraphernalia properly to carry on the business de-
scribed 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 carry out his obligation, and that it is satis-
factorily shown that the granting 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.

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 ^re-