§ 5-19.1-22 - Authorized practices. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 5-19.1-22

   § 5-19.1-22  Authorized practices. –Nothing contained in this chapter shall apply to any practitioner withauthority to prescribe who does not keep open shop for the retailing,dispensing of medicines and poisons, nor prevent him or her from administeringor supplying to his patients such articles as he or she may deem fit andproper. Nothing in this chapter shall apply to, nor in any manner interferewith, the business of a general merchant in selling and distributingnon-narcotic, nonprescription medicines or drugs which are prepackaged, fullyprepared by the manufacturer for use by the consumer, and labeled in accordancewith the requirements of the state and federal food and drug acts.