The following regulations are hereby granted in regulating the sale of hypodermic syringes and needles.
(a) No hypodermic needle, syringe, or similar device, or disposable hypodermic needle, syringe, or similar device which may be for subcutaneous injection, or for administering any drug or other substance in the human body, shall be sold or dispensed to any person except by prescription, either written or oral, as follows:
(1) Upon a written prescription of a practitioner licensed by law to administer drugs;
(2) Upon an oral prescription of such practitioner which is reduced promptly to writing and filed by the pharmacist; or
(3) By refilling any such written or oral prescription, if such refilling is authorized by the prescriber, either in the original prescription or by oral order which is reduced to writing and filed by the pharmacist. All such pharmacists or legalized dispensers of such paraphernalia including, but not limited to, the name of the purchaser, requiring adequate identification thereof, the address of purchaser, date of sale, type of instrument sold and number sold.
(b) No person except a manufacturer of, or wholesaler, or a retail dealer, in surgical instruments, apothecary, physician, dentist, hospital, veterinarian, nurse, industrial corporation, educational institution or intern shall at any time have or possess a hypodermic syringe or needle or disposable hypodermic syringe or needle or any instrument or implement adapted for the use of habit- forming drugs by subcutaneous injection, which is possessed for the purposes of administering habit- forming drugs, unless such possession be authorized by the prescription of a physician issued in accordance with subsection (a) of this section.
(c) The provisions of this section shall not apply to the sale of any hypodermic syringe, needle or similar device, or disposable hypodermic needle, syringe or similar device to hospitals, physicians, dentists, pharmacists, industrial corporations and educational institutions or embalmers, or others using such device in the legal course of their respective business or profession; provided, nevertheless, that such vendors or legalized dispensers shall keep or cause to be kept accurate records for such sales.
(Ord. passed 10-8-2019)