Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-05-06

prescriptions, orders, or records re-
late is a party.
Section 10.
Cd No person shall obtain or at
tempt to obtain narcotic drug, or
procure or attempt to procure the
administration of narcotic drug,
(a) by fraud, deceit, misrepresenta-
ton, or subterfuge; or CD by the
forgery or alteration Of a prescrip-
ton or of any written order; or Co
by the concealment of material
fact; or Cd by the use Of a false
name or the giving Of a false adj
dress.
CD Information communicated to
a physician in an effort unlawfully
to procure a narcotic drug, or I'M
lawfully to procure the admins
tration Of any such drug, shall not
be deemed a privileged communi-
cation.
CD No person shall wilfully make
false statement in any prescrip-
ton, order, report, or record, re-
CURED by CnlS act.
"a No person shall, for the pur-
pose Of obtaining narcotic drug,
falsely assume the title Of, or repre-
sent himself to be a manufacturer,
wholesaler, apothecary, physician,
dentist, veterinarian, or other au-
thorized person.
60 No person shall make or utter
any false or forged prescription or
false or forged written order.
60 No person shall affix any
false or forged label to package
or receptacle containing narcotic
drugs.
Cd The provisions of this section
shall apply to all transactions re-
lating to narcotic drugs under the
provisions of Section of this act,
in the same way as they apply to
transactions under all other Sec
lions.
Section 10. In any complaint, in
formation, or indictment and in
any action or proceeding brought
for the enforcement Of any provi-
sion Of this act, it shall not be
necessary to negative any excep-
ton, excuse, proviso, or exemption,
contained in this act, and the bur-
den or proof of any such exception,
excuse, proviso, or exemption, shall
be upon the defendant.
Section co. The state department
Of health shall cooperate with all
peace officers within this state, and
all county attorneys to enforce the
provisions of this act and with all
agencies charged with the enforce
ment of the laws of the United
States, Of this state and Of all other
states relating to narcotic drugs.
Section 81. Any person violating
any provisions Of this act shall,
upon conviction, be punished by a
fine not exceeding 100000 or by
Imprisonment in a state penal In
stitution for not exceeding five
years, or by both such fine and i'm
priSonment.
Section %. No person shall be
prosecuted for a violation OF any
provisions of this act if such per-
son has been acquitted or convicted
under the federal narcotic laws of
the same act or omission which, it
is alleged, constitutes violation OF
this act.
Section %. If any provision OF
this act or the application thereof
to any person or circumstances is
held invalid. such invalidity shall
not affect other provisions or ap-
plications of the act which can be
given effect without the invalid
provision or application, and to this
and the provisions Of this act are
declared to be severable, and moth
ing in this act may be construed
into placing any citizen OF this
State in double jeopardy, either
State or Federal, for the same Of
Tense.
Section "a. This act shall be so
interpreted and construed as to eff
fectuate it's general purpose, to
make uniform the laws OF those
states which enact it.
Section 25. Mason's Minnesota
Statutes of 1927, Sections 1o453 to
1O455-3 and all acts amendatory
thereof and supplemental thereto,
except Chapter 321, Session Laws
of 1885, together with all other acts
or parts of acts which are in
consistent with the provisions OF
this act, are hereby repealed.
Section 26. This act may be cited
as the Uniform Narcotic Drug Act.
Approved March 10, 1887.