§ 19-04-01 — Selling certain enumerated poisons regulated - Penalty

North Dakota § 19-04-01

• Jurisdiction: North Dakota
• Title 19: Foods, Drugs, Oils, and Compounds
• Ch. 19-04: Poisons and Deleterious Preparations

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Every person who, at retail, without receiving a physician's prescription specifying that such
prescription shall contain a poison and giving the name thereof, sells, furnishes, gives away, or
delivers to another:
1. Arsenic or any preparation thereof, corrosive sublimate, white precipitate, red
precipitate, biniodide of mercury, cyanide of potassium, hydrocyanic acid, strychnia, or
any other poison or vegetable alkaloid, or the salts thereof, or essential oil of bitter
almonds; or
2. Aconite, belladonna, colchicum, conium, formaldehyde, nux vomica, henbane, savin,
ergot, cotton root, cantharides, creosote, digitalis, or the pharmaceutical preparations
of any of them, croton oil, chloroform, sulfate of zinc, mineral acids, carbolic acid, or
oxalic acid,
without affixing to the bottle, box, vessel, or package containing the same, the name of the
contents, the word "poison", and the person's name and place of business, is guilty of a class A
misdemeanor. Any storekeeper, however, may sell in original, unbroken packages, fungicides
and insecticides, including formaldehyde and Paris green, generally used for agricultural
purposes which have been designated as such by the state board of pharmacy.