1262                             Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 393

266A.

(c) The Board's power either to reprimand a pharmacist or assist-
ant pharmacist or to suspend or revoke his license shall be for any
of the following causes:

(1) Conviction of:

(1)  A crime involving professional misconduct respecting the phar-
macy or drug laws.

(ii) A crime involving the State Uniform Narcotic Drug Act or
the federal narcotic laws.

(iii) His addiction to the use of morphine, cocaine, or narcotics of
any kind.

(iv) His knowingly, intentionally or fraudulently adulterating, or
causing to be adulterated, drugs, chemicals or medicinal prepara-
tions.

(2)  Procuring, or attempting to procure, registration in Mary-
land as a pharmacist for himself or another by knowingly making or
causing to be made false representations to the Board.

(3)  Adjudication as an incompetent under the provisions of Arti-
cle 59 of this Code.

(4)  Upon proof satisfactory to the Board of Pharmacy that a phar-
macist or assistant pharmacist is guilty of grossly unprofessional
conduct. The following acts on the part of a pharmacist or assistant
pharmacist are hereby declared to constitute grossly unprofessional
conduct:

(i) Paying rebates or entering into an agreement for payment of
rebates to any physician, dentist or other person for the recommend-
ing of the services of any person.

(ii) The providing or causing to be provided to physician, dentist,
veterinarian, or other medical practitioners, prescription blanks or
forms bearing the pharmacists' or pharmacy's name, address or other
means of identification.

(iii) The association by a pharmacist either as a partner, coowner,
or employee of a pharmacy, wholly or substantially owned by phy-
sician, dentist, veterinarian, or other medical practitioner or group
thereof; but this paragraph shall not be construed or applied to have
any retroactive effect or to apply to any such association existing on
June 1, 1963, for such period as that association remains in con-
tinuous existence.

[(iv) The advertising to the public by any means, in any form or
through any media, the prices for prescriptions, dangerous or non-
proprietary drugs, or fees for services relating thereto or any refer-
ence to the price of said drugs or prescriptions whether specifically or
as a percentile of prevailing prices, or by the use of the terms "cut
rate," "discount," "bargain" or terms of similar connotation :] PRO-
VIDED, THAT THE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION BY
A PHARMACIST, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, THROUGH
ANY STATE SPONSORED AGENCY OR ANY GROUP RECOG-
NIZED BY THE MARYLAND COMMISSION ON AGING, OF
SPECIAL PRICING AND/OR SERVICES, WITHOUT IDENTIFY-
ING INDIVIDUAL PRESCRIPTION DRUG ITEMS, TO RESI-
DENTS OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND WHO HAVE AT-
TAINED 60 YEARS OF AGE, SHALL NOT CONSTITUTE UN-