Okla. Stat. tit. 21, § 21-1196
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Apothecary liable for negligence - Willful or ignorant
Official statutory text
acts or omissions.
Every apothecary or every person employed as clerk or salesman
by an apothecary, or otherwise carrying on business as a dealer in
drugs or medicines, who, in putting up any drugs or medicines,
willfully, negligently or ignorantly omits to label the same, or
puts any untrue label, stamp or other designation of contents upon
any box, bottle or other package containing any drugs or medicines,
or substitutes a different article for any article prescribed or
ordered, or puts up a greater or less quantity of any article than
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 21. Crimes and Punishments Page 532
that prescribed or ordered, or otherwise deviates from the terms of
the prescription or order which he undertakes to follow, in
consequence of which human life or health is endangered, is guilty
of a misdemeanor.
Every apothecary or every person employed as clerk or salesman
by an apothecary, or otherwise carrying on business as a dealer in
drugs or medicines, who, in putting up any drugs or medicines,
willfully, negligently or ignorantly omits to label the same, or
puts any untrue label, stamp or other designation of contents upon
any box, bottle or other package containing any drugs or medicines,
or substitutes a different article for any article prescribed or
ordered, or puts up a greater or less quantity of any article than
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 21. Crimes and Punishments Page 532
that prescribed or ordered, or otherwise deviates from the terms of
the prescription or order which he undertakes to follow, in
consequence of which human life or health is endangered, is guilty
of a misdemeanor.
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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