§22-20-11. Restrictions on retail sales of certain poisons.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to retail any poisons enumerated in Schedules "A" and "B" which are as follows, except upon the conditions named in this section:

(1) Schedule "A" - biniodide of mercury, cyanide of potassium, carbolic acid, hydrocyanic acid, strychnine, arsenate and its preparations and all other poisonous alkaloids and their salts and the essential oil of bitter almonds.

(2) Schedule "B" - acenite, belladonna, colchium, conium, nux vomica, henbane, savin, ergot, cotton root, cantharides, creosote, veratrium, digitalis and their pharmaceutical preparations, croton oil, chloroform, sulphate of zinc, corrosive sublimate, red precipitate, white precipitate, mineral acids and oxalic acid.

(b) Any of the poisons included in Schedule "A" may be legally sold by any registered pharmacist, but he shall, before delivering the same to the purchaser, cause an entry to be made in a book kept for that purpose, stating the date of sale, name and address of purchaser, the name of poison sold and the amount, the purpose for which it was represented by the purchaser to be required and the name of the dispenser, such book to be always open for inspection by the proper authorities and to be preserved for at least three years.

(c) Any of the poisons named in Schedule "B" may be legally sold, but only on the condition that the person, firm or corporation selling or furnishing the same shall label the box, vessel or paper in which the said poison is contained with the name of the drug, the word "poison" and the name and place of the seller.

(d) It shall be unlawful for any registered pharmacists to sell or deliver any poisons enumerated in Schedule "A" and "B" unless, upon due inquiry, it is found that the purchaser is aware of its poisonous character and represents that it is to be used for legitimate purposes.

(e) The provisions of this section shall not apply to the dispensing of poison in not unusual quantities or upon the prescription of practitioners of medicine.

(f) Nothing in this section shall prohibit the sale of insecticides, fungicides or poisons used in the arts, when sold in original packages and labeled according to the law and other remedies or materials used in the control or eradication of insect pests and plant diseases.

(g) Whoever shall violate any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $25.00 nor more than $100.00. Whoever shall fail to preserve the original of any prescription, or a true copy of the same, or to produce same when lawfully required, in accordance with the provisions of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $50.00 nor more than $200.00.

(Acts 1931, No. 332, p. 377; Code 1940, T. 22, §§259, 260.)