HARRY HUGHES, Governor

2033

AS A SPRAY, GARGLE, OR LINIMENT OR IN ANY OTHER WAY FOR
EXTERNAL APPLICATION IF THE COMPOUND, MIXTURE, OR
PREPARATION:

(1)  CONTAINS SOME OTHER DRUG, IN ADDITION TO A
BARBITURATE, THAT RENDERS THE COMPOUND, MIXTURE, OR
PREPARATION UNFIT FOR INTERNAL USE; AND

(2)  IS SOLD FOR THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH IT IS
INTENDED AND NOT FOR THE PURPOSE OF EVADING PART II OF THIS
SUBTITLE.

(B) EXEMPTED PERSONS.

THE PROVISIONS OF § 4-1107(A) OF THIS SUBTITLE DO NOT
APPLY TO THE DELIVERY OF BARBITURATES TO OR TO POSSESSION OF
BARBITURATES BY THE FOLLOWING CLASSES OF PERSONS, OR THEIR
AGENTS OR EMPLOYEES, FOR USE IN THE USUAL COURSE OF THEIR
BUSINESS, PRACTICE, OR OFFICIAL DUTIES:

(1)  PHARMACISTS.

(2)  PRACTITIONERS.

(3)  PERSONS WHO OBTAIN BARBITURATES FOR
DISPOSITION BY OR UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF AN EMPLOYEE WHO
IS A PHARMACIST OR A PRACTITIONER.

(4)  PERSONS WHO OBTAIN BARBITURATES FOR LAWFUL
RESEARCH, TEACHING, OR TESTING AND NOT FOR RESALE.

(5)  HOSPITALS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS THAT OBTAIN
BARBITURATES FOR LAWFUL ADMINISTRATION.

(6)  OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF FEDERAL, STATE, OR
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.

(7)  MANUFACTURERS, WHOLESALERS, CARRIERS, AND
WAREHOUSEMEN.

REVISOR'S NOTE; This section is new language derived
without substantive change from former Article
43, § 286.

In subsection (b)(3) of this section, the words
"an employee who is a pharmacist or practitioner"
are substituted for the words "pharmacists or
practitioners employed by them" to clarify the
term "them" in the former law.

In subsection (b) of this section, the former
reference to an exception to the "provisions of §
285(4)" is deleted. The item to which the former
language originally referred was repealed in 1966
and the renumbered item (4) of former Article 43,