1402

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 325

(1)    Conviction of:

(i) A crime involving professional
misconduct respecting the pharmacy 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 preparations.

(2)    Procuring, or attempting to procure,
registration in Maryland 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 Article 59 of this Code.

(4)    Upon proof satisfactory to the Board of
Pharmacy that a pharmacist 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 recommending 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 physician, 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 continuous existence.

(iv) The advertising to the public by any
means, in any form or through any media, the prices for
prescriptions, dangerous or nonproprietary drugs, or fees
for services relating thereto or any reference 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: Provided, that the dissemination of information
by a pharmacist, directly or indirectly, through any