New Jersey Statutes

Titles / FOOD AND DRUGS / Sections

• Chapter 1

• 1
  Definitions
  
  
• 2
  Certain books as evidence
  
  
• 3
  Responsibility for acts of officers and agents
  
  
• 4
  Foods, drugs, etc., complying with Federal regulations
  
  
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• Chapter 2

• 9
  Fees for issuance of "Certificate of Free Sale."
  
  
• 8
  Fee
  
  
• 7
  Consolidated certificate of operation; multiple regulated businesses owned operated upon same premises; suspension or revocation
  
  
• 6
  Interference with officials; penalties
  
  
• 5
  Powers, duties of registered environmental health specialist.
  
  
• 4
  Designation of registered environmental health specialists to perform certain duties.
  
  
• 3
  Appointment of analysts, chemists, specialists, chief inspectors, etc.
  
  
• 2
  Enforcement by local board
  
  
• 1
  Enforcement by state departments; rules and regulations
  
  
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• Chapter 3

• 9
  Composite sample of milk seized in transit
  
  
• 6
  Proof of analysis on purchase by other than representative of department
  
  
• 5
  Proof of analysis as evidence
  
  
• 4
  Preservation of sample
  
  
• 3
  Taking sample without consent of owner
  
  
• 2
  Procuring sample of food or drug
  
  
• 1
  Right of entry; opening packages; inspection
  
  
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• Chapter 4A

• 5
  Rules and regulations
  
  
• 4
  Food banks; licenses; fee; regulation
  
  
• 3
  Nonliability for food donated to nonprofit organization
  
  
• 2
  Definitions
  
  
• 1
  Short title
  
  
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• Chapter 4

• 12
  Adulterated or misbranded foods, drugs, etc.; marking; detaining
  
  
• 11
  Summary destruction of perishable food
  
  
• 10
  Return of goods; bond
  
  
• 9
  Sale or destruction of condemned article
  
  
• 8
  Claims under oath
  
  
• 5
  Issuance of warrant
  
  
• 2
  Jurisdiction
  
  
• 1
  Confiscation; summary proceeding
  
  
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• Chapter 5A

• 1
  Short title
  
  
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• Chapter 5

• 22
  Defacement or removal of label
  
  
• 19
  Drugs dispensed by physicians, etc., or on written prescription
  
  
• 18.2
  Exemptions from labeling and packaging requirements
  
  
• 18.1
  Cosmetic misbrandings
  
  
• 18
  Drug or device misbrandings
  
  
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• Chapter 5A

• 2
  Definitions
  
  
• 3
  Hazardous substance; limitation
  
  
• 4
  Application of Federal Hazardous Substances Labeling Act
  
  
• 5
  Commissioner; powers
  
  
• 6
  Prohibited acts
  
  
• 7
  Exceptions
  
  
• 8
  Enforcement of act; penalties
  
  
• 9
  Action to restrain violations
  
  
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• Chapter 5

• 17
  Food misbrandings
  
  
• 16
  "Misbranded" defined
  
  
• 14
  Meat and meat products
  
  
• 1
  Sale, distribution or manufacture of adulterated or misbranded articles
  
  
• 2
  Certain dealers excepted from operation of pure food and drug law; guaranty of seller
  
  
• 3
  Content of guaranty; liability of resident seller
  
  
• 4
  Guaranty by nonresident
  
  
• 5
  Extent of protection of dealer
  
  
• 6
  Article for foreign market
  
  
• 7
  Sale of patent medicines not authorized
  
  
• 8
  General food adulterations
  
  
• 13
  Use of wood or methyl alcohol prohibited; penalty
  
  
• 11.1
  General cosmetic adulterations
  
  
• 11
  Exceptions to drug adulterations
  
  
• 10
  General drug or device adulterations
  
  
• 9.1
  Confectionery with more than 1/2 of 1% alcohol rendered unfit for beverage purposes; sale to person under legal age; label; sign in place of sale; violations; penalty
  
  
• 9
  Confectionery adulterations
  
  
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• Chapter 6F

• 2
  Pharmacist; dispensing; immunity from penalty or disciplinary action; affixation of label to container
  
  
• 3
  Health care facility or its employee; restriction of use; prohibition; administration or dispensing on prescription; immunity from disciplinary action or penalty
  
  
• 4
  Manufacture, introduction or delivery; immunity from liability for civil or criminal penalty
  
  
• 5
  Records on use; periodic studies
  
  
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• Chapter 6G

• 1
  Control or possession without written permit; prohibition; exceptions
  
  
• 2
  Sale of nitrous oxide for nonmedical use
  
  
• 3
  Record of sale; duration of retention; contents; inspection
  
  
• 4
  Permits; purposes authorized
  
  
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• Chapter 6F

• 1
  Prescribing, administering or dispensing amygdalin (laetrile); immunity of physician; written informed request; form
  
  
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• Chapter 6E

• 13
  Severability
  
  
• 12
  Inapplicability of act to dispensation of drug permits under institutional permits
  
  
• 3
  Restraint on prescription drug price information to public
  
  
• 4
  Definitions.
  
  
• 6
  List of interchangeable drug products.
  
  
• 7
  Prescriptions; dispensation of lowest cost interchangeable drug product; exceptions; notice of substitution
  
  
• 8
  Prescriptions; dispensation of substitute drug for drug not on latest list of interchangeable drug products; reasons; approval of prescriber
  
  
• 9
  Dispensation of nonbrand name drug product; label.
  
  
• 10
  Drug stores, pharmacies or drug departments; signs; information to be disclosed about drug to be dispensed
  
  
• 11
  Violations; penalties; collection and enforcement; validity of prescription on unauthorized form
  
  
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• Chapter 6G

• 5
  Administration and enforcement; rules
  
  
• 6
  Violations; penalties; recovery and enforcement
  
  
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• Chapter 6I

• 8
  Inapplicability of act.
  
  
• 9
  Falsification of registration card, degree of crime.
  
  
• 10
  Written instructions to patient, caregiver.
  
  
• 11
  Grants, contributions, use of fees.
  
  
• 12
  Report to Governor, Legislature.
  
  
• 13
  Exchange of data, information.
  
  
• 14
  Construction of act.
  
  
• 15
  Additional immunity.
  
  
• 7
  Applications for permits to operate as alternative treatment center; regulations.
  
  
• 6
  Applicability of N.J.S.2C:35-18.
  
  
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• Chapter 6H

• 1
  Distribution of ephedrine alkaloids to minor, disorderly person; exceptions.
  
  
• 2
  Label required on ephedrine alkaloid products, certain; required.
  
  
• 3
  Rules, regulations.
  
  
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• Chapter 6I

• 1
  Short title.
  
  
• 2
  Findings, declarations relative to the medical use of marijuana.
  
  
• 3
  Definitions relative to the medical use of marijuana.
  
  
• 4
  Registry of qualifying patients, primary caregivers.
  
  
• 5
  Certification authorizing medical use of marijuana.
  
  
• 16
  Rules, regulations.
  
  
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• Chapter 6E

• 2
  Advertisement of prescription drugs; rules and regulations
  
  
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• Chapter 6

• 1
  Establishment of standards
  
  
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• Chapter 6B

• 9
  Adulteration or misbranding of drug; examination of records
  
  
• 10
  Order to correct violation
  
  
• 11
  Penalties.
  
  
• 12
  Definitions.
  
  
• 13
  Appropriation
  
  
• 14
  Definitions relative to pharmaceutical wholesale distributors.
  
  
• 15
  Licensure required for pharmaceutical wholesale distributors.
  
  
• 16
  Criminal history record background check for applicants, designated representatives, persons enumerated.
  
  
• 8
  Washroom and toilet facilities
  
  
• 7
  Cleanliness of equipment and machinery
  
  
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• Chapter 6

• 2
  Publication: time of taking effect
  
  
• 3
  Sale or manufacture of nonstandard articles prohibited
  
  
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• Chapter 6A

• 1
  New drugs; introduction into interstate commerce; application; effective date of application; refusal of application; application of chapter
  
  
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• Chapter 6B

• 2
  Persons required to sign and verify statement; form and contents.
  
  
• 3
  Time for filing
  
  
• 4
  Fee
  
  
• 5
  Change of address; notice; fee
  
  
• 6
  Cleanliness of premises
  
  
• 17
  Establishment, maintenance of list of authorized distributors.
  
  
• 18
  Determination of eligibility for licensure renewal.
  
  
• 30
  Noncompliance with orders, penalties.
  
  
• 31
  Real, personal property, certain, subject to forfeiture.
  
  
• 32
  Wholesale Drug Distribution Advisory Council.
  
  
• 33
  Rules, regulations.
  
  
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• Chapter 6D

• 1
  Definitions
  
  
• 2
  Offenses
  
  
• 3
  Enforcement
  
  
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• Chapter 6E

• 1
  Short title
  
  
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• Chapter 6B

• 29
  Violations, gradation of offenses.
  
  
• 28
  Adherence to written policies, procedures by wholesale distributors.
  
  
• 27
  Maintenance of document, record relative to pedigree, certification.
  
  
• 19
  Additional requirements for designated representatives.
  
  
• 20
  Requirements for facilities used for wholesale prescription drug distribution.
  
  
• 21
  Provision of pedigree, certification prior to sale, return of prescription drug.
  
  
• 22
  Annual report to the Legislature on tracking system.
  
  
• 23
  Authentication of distribution of prescription drug.
  
  
• 24
  Examination of shipping container.
  
  
• 25
  Criteria for return of prescription drug to wholesale distributor.
  
  
• 26
  Requirements for wholesale distributor.
  
  
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• Chapter 8

• 2
  Labeling containers of caustic acids and alkalies intended for household use
  
  
• 1
  "Caustic acids" and "caustic alkalies" enumerated
  
  
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• Chapter 9

• 37
  Repeal
  
  
• 36
  Plaintiff entitled to penalties
  
  
• 35
  Enforcement of provisions
  
  
• 34
  Penalties for violations
  
  
• 33
  Alteration, mutilation or destruction of tags or marks prohibited
  
  
• 32
  Marking and tagging of articles placed in storage
  
  
• 31
  Lot numbers for identification
  
  
• 30
  Requirements for storage
  
  
• 29
  Transfer between refrigerators
  
  
• 28
  Restorage after release from storage prohibited
  
  
• 21
  Definitions
  
  
• 22
  Application for license for refrigerated warehouse or locker plant
  
  
• 23
  License fees; suspension or revocation of license
  
  
• 24
  Reports to commissioner
  
  
• 25
  Notice of insanitary condition of warehouse or locker plant
  
  
• 26
  Duration of storage period; extension
  
  
• 27
  Disposition and sale of articles in refrigerated warehouse longer than two years without extension
  
  
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• Chapter 10

• 73.7
  When frozen desserts deemed adulterated
  
  
• 73.6
  Sale of adulterated frozen desserts prohibited
  
  
• 73.5
  Definitions.
  
  
• 73.2
  "Frozen desserts" ; definition
  
  
• 73.1a
  Compliance with rules and regulations; extensions of time
  
  
• 73.1
  Rules and regulations of department of health; establishment of standards of identity and definitions
  
  
• 57.30
  Repeals
  
  
• 57.29
  Severability
  
  
• 57.28
  Contamination of milk
  
  
• 57.27
  Milk and milk products of violators barred from state
  
  
• 57.26
  Failure of milk or milk products to meet minimum requirements
  
  
• 73.10
  License to sell, distribute frozen desserts.
  
  
• 73.11
  Form of application; affidavit
  
  
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• Chapter 10A

• 4
  Effective date
  
  
• 3
  Penalty
  
  
• 2
  Rules and regulations
  
  
• 1
  Straws, tubes and other devices for drinking
  
  
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• Chapter 10

• 73.18
  Repeals
  
  
• 73.17
  Partial invalidity
  
  
• 73.16
  Inspection; fee
  
  
• 73.15
  Use of license moneys for enforcement
  
  
• 73.14
  Illegal sale and distribution of frozen dessert
  
  
• 73.13
  Revocation or suspension of license; renewal
  
  
• 73.12
  Issuance of license; expiration
  
  
• 57.24b
  Additional rules and regulations for milk products and their imitations
  
  
• 57.24a
  Use of or reference to fluid milk product or dairy farm by imitation product; prohibition
  
  
• 57.11
  Inconsistent ordinances, rules or regulations
  
  
• 57.10
  Powers of local board of health
  
  
• 57.9
  Maintenance of records; inspection
  
  
• 57.8
  Revocation of permit; grounds; renewal; suspension pending hearing
  
  
• 57.7
  Forms; establishment by state department
  
  
• 57.6
  Preliminary findings
  
  
• 57.5
  Annual fee; amounts
  
  
• 57.4
  Temporary or emergency permits
  
  
• 57.3
  Restrictions in permits
  
  
• 57.2
  Permit to operate milk plant or as bulk milk hauler; necessity; transferability; expiration
  
  
• 57.1
  Definitions
  
  
• 57.12
  Notification of violations; prohibition of distribution and sale
  
  
• 57.13
  Inspections; authorized inspectors
  
  
• 57.24
  Cans, packages and other containers enclosing milk, milk products or fluid milk products; labelling
  
  
• 57.23
  Container regulations
  
  
• 57.22
  Use of apparatus, containers, equipment, etc., for other purposes prohibited
  
  
• 57.21
  Sanitary conditions; health and habits of personnel
  
  
• 57.20
  Rules and regulations
  
  
• 57.19
  Enforcement; failure of local board to act; procedure by state department
  
  
• 57.18
  Milk and fluid milk products; pasteurization
  
  
• 57.17
  Pasteurization required
  
  
• 57.16
  Bacteriological and other tests; methods, techniques, personnel, etc.
  
  
• 57.15
  Inability of local board to make inspections
  
  
• 57.14
  Place of inspection
  
  
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• Chapter 11A

• 8
  Shortage of vitamins and minerals; temporary suspension of minimum standards; authority of department
  
  
• 7
  Modification of vitamin and mineral requirements; interstate commerce; authority of department
  
  
• 6
  Enrichment; ingredients
  
  
• 5
  Bread and rolls; vitamin and mineral content; minimum standards
  
  
• 9
  Enforcement of act; investigations and inspections
  
  
• 10
  Violations; penalties; recovery; disposition
  
  
• 11
  Separate violations
  
  
• 12
  Actions to restrain violations
  
  
• 13
  Repeal of conflicting acts; saving clause
  
  
• 14
  Effective date
  
  
• 4
  Flour; vitamin and mineral content; minimum standards
  
  
• 3
  Definitions
  
  
• 2
  Declaration of purpose
  
  
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• Chapter 11

• 1
  License; expiration
  
  
• 2
  Revocation of license
  
  
• 3
  Eggs unfit for food
  
  
• 4
  Labeling "rots" and "spots"
  
  
• 5
  Denatured eggs; labeling
  
  
• 6
  Inspection of egg establishments
  
  
• 7
  Distribution, sale, etc., of eggs removed from incubators
  
  
• 8
  Penalty for violation
  
  
• 9
  Enforcement of act
  
  
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• Chapter 11A

• 1
  Short title
  
  
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• Chapter 12

• 10
  Periodic testing
  
  
• 11
  Potability test results to Department of Health; annual report to legislative committees
  
  
• 12
  Procedures, rules, regulations
  
  
• 13
  Powers of commissioner
  
  
• 14
  Violations; penalties
  
  
• 9
  State regulations, standards for bottled water.
  
  
• 8
  Definitions
  
  
• 7
  Revocation or suspension of license
  
  
• 6
  Issuance of license; period of
  
  
• 5
  Licensing of wholesale bottlers
  
  
• 4
  False advertising
  
  
• 2
  Prohibited adulterations; drinks containing water treated with fluorides
  
  
• 1
  "Nonalcoholic drink" defined
  
  
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• Chapter 14A

• 8
  Notification to owner of hazard, contents.
  
  
• 8.1
  Eviction of occupants to avoid corrective maintenance
  
  
• 9
  Failure of owner to obey notice or order to abate; removal of nuisance; payment of expenses by owner; action to collect; lien
  
  
• 10
  Nonenforcement by board; enforcement by department
  
  
• 11
  Rules and regulations by department
  
  
• 7
  Order for remediation, disposition of lead-based paint hazard.
  
  
• 6
  Responsibilities of board; enforcement, reports.
  
  
• 1
  Use on toys, furniture or accessible surfaces of dwelling; prohibition
  
  
• 2
  Toys or furniture; sale or transfer for profit or knowingly transfer or exchange; prohibition
  
  
• 3
  Violations; disorderly persons
  
  
• 4
  Definitions
  
  
• 5
  Lead paint upon interior of building or exterior surface accessible to children; public nuisance
  
  
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• Chapter 15

• 11
  Order to abate violation in lieu of prosecution
  
  
• 12
  Furnishing and posting abstract of law
  
  
• 13
  License; necessity; fee; exemptions
  
  
• 14
  Fee for license or inspection.
  
  
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• Chapter 15A

• 1
  Equipment of lead, cadmium, or metallic substance; formation of dangerous compounds; unwholesome, dangerous or detrimental
  
  
• 2
  Penalties; recovery and enforcement
  
  
• 3
  Packaging of meat
  
  
• 4
  Applicability of act; enforcement
  
  
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• Chapter 15

• 10
  Persons affected with communicable disease
  
  
• 9
  Sleeping in rooms of food establishment
  
  
• 1
  Definitions
  
  
• 2
  Cleanliness, lighting, plumbing and ventilation
  
  
• 3
  Construction of walls and floors
  
  
• 4
  Cleanliness of walls, floors, furniture and machinery; use of hydrocyanic acids or salts; running water; multi-use utensils
  
  
• 5
  Protection of food, drugs or cosmetics from contamination; removal of refuse
  
  
• 6
  Clothing of employees to be kept clean
  
  
• 7
  Toilet facilities for and personal cleanliness of employees
  
  
• 8
  Expectoration prohibited
  
  
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• Chapter 16B

• 49
  Hearing procedures
  
  
• 50
  Issuance of subpoenas
  
  
• 51
  Service of subpoenas; fees and mileage
  
  
• 52
  Refusal to obey subpoena or testify; contempt
  
  
• 53
  Oaths
  
  
• 54
  Grounds for denying license
  
  
• 48
  Proceedings before the secretary
  
  
• 47
  Reports of licensee
  
  
• 46
  Books and records; rights of entry, inspection of premises
  
  
• 45
  Acts of agents, servants and employees
  
  
• 44
  Engaging in business prohibited after removal of inspectors
  
  
• 43
  Removal of inspectors
  
  
• 42
  Exemption from inspection
  
  
• 41
  Other applications of this act
  
  
• 40
  Display of vehicle permits required
  
  
• 55
  Informal hearings on violations; adjustment
  
  
• 56
  Orders of the secretary; service
  
  
• 70
  Partial invalidity
  
  
• 69
  Inconsistent acts and rules and regulations superseded
  
  
• 68
  Liberal construction
  
  
• 67
  Authority of the division of weights and measures not abrogated or affected
  
  
• 66
  Authority of department of health not abrogated or affected except as authorized by this act
  
  
• 65
  Foreign or interstate commerce
  
  
• 64
  Grant of specific powers not to impair general powers
  
  
• 63
  Agreements with other agencies
  
  
• 62
  Co-operation with United States Government
  
  
• 61
  Actions to restrain violations
  
  
• 60
  Violations
  
  
• 59
  Review by Superior Court
  
  
• 58
  Disposition of license fees, penalties, fines and costs
  
  
• 57
  Records of the secretary; reports to the Attorney General
  
  
• 71
  Repeal
  
  
• 1
  Short title
  
  
• 22
  Separate slaughter of animals found to show symptoms of disease
  
  
• 21
  Unauthorized entry of uninspected animals prohibited
  
  
• 20
  Antemortem inspections
  
  
• 19
  Diseased or physically impaired animals
  
  
• 18
  Disposition of dead animals
  
  
• 17
  Inspections
  
  
• 10
  Powers and duties of local inspectors
  
  
• 8
  State inspectors, analysts and employees; continuation of former practices and procedures for a period not in excess of 1 year
  
  
• 7
  Enforcement by municipalities
  
  
• 6
  General powers of the secretary
  
  
• 5
  General power of the board; rules and regulations
  
  
• 4
  Transfer of authority from Department of Health to Department of Agriculture; general power of Department of Agriculture
  
  
• 3
  Definitions
  
  
• 2
  Declaration of policy
  
  
• 23
  Separate slaughter and preparation of horsemeat
  
  
• 24
  Postmortem inspection
  
  
• 39
  Vehicle permits
  
  
• 38
  Sale or shipment of horsemeat prohibited
  
  
• 37
  Acceptance by handler-distributor of unwholesome meat prohibited
  
  
• 36
  Sale or shipment of unwholesome meat prohibited
  
  
• 35
  Sale or shipment of mislabeled packages prohibited
  
  
• 34
  Registration of labels, marks
  
  
• 33
  Contents of labels
  
  
• 32
  Packaging
  
  
• 31
  Handling, transporting and storing
  
  
• 25
  Inspection mark required before processing
  
  
• 26
  Inspection during processing or preparation
  
  
• 27
  Inspection required before packaging or shipment
  
  
• 28
  Condemnation; disposition
  
  
• 29
  Disposition of by-products
  
  
• 30
  Actions authorized
  
  
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• Chapter 17

• 8
  Disposition of penalties collected
  
  
• 5
  Recovery of penalties; enforcement
  
  
• 4
  Action to restrain violation
  
  
• 3
  Payment of penalty equivalent to conviction
  
  
• 2
  Different places or days as separate violations
  
  
• 1
  Penalties
  
  
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• Chapter 21

• 36
  Reports of convictions of manufacturers and practitioners.
  
  
• 35
  Nuisances
  
  
• 34
  Cooperative arrangements.
  
  
• 33
  Injunctions
  
  
• 32
  Administrative inspections and warrants.
  
  
• 31
  Powers of enforcement personnel.
  
  
• 29
  Second or subsequent offenses
  
  
• 25
  Additional penalties
  
  
• 37
  Burden of proof; liabilities; immunity
  
  
• 38
  Judicial review.
  
  
• 39
  Reports by practitioners of drug dependent persons.
  
  
• 54
  "Controlled Dangerous Substances Administration and Enforcement Fund."
  
  
• 53
  Severability
  
  
• 52
  Seizure in violation of act
  
  
• 45
  Repealer
  
  
• 44
  Study of penalties relating to use and possession of marihuana
  
  
• 43
  Severability
  
  
• 42
  Uniformity of interpretation
  
  
• 40
  Pending proceedings
  
  
• 24
  Attempt, endeavor and conspiracy
  
  
• 23
  General penalty
  
  
• 22
  Prohibited acts D.--Fraud or misrepresentation by registered manufacturers or distributors--penalties.
  
  
• 8.1
  Schedule V.
  
  
• 8
  Schedule IV.
  
  
• 7
  Schedule III.
  
  
• 6
  Schedule II.
  
  
• 5
  Schedule I.
  
  
• 4
  Schedules of controlled substances
  
  
• 3
  Authority to control.
  
  
• 2
  Definitions.
  
  
• 9
  Rules and regulations.
  
  
• 10
  Registration requirements.
  
  
• 21
  Prohibited acts C.--Records and order forms of registered manufacturers and distributors--Penalties
  
  
• 17
  Form of label to be used by pharmacists; altering or removing label.
  
  
• 16
  Form of label on containers of manufacturers and wholesalers; altering or removing label.
  
  
• 15
  Prescriptions.
  
  
• 14
  Order forms.
  
  
• 13
  Records of registrants.
  
  
• 12
  Denial, revocation, or suspension of registration.
  
  
• 11
  Registration.
  
  
• 1
  Short title