Under such rules and regulations as the division may adopt, it has authority to make sales of alcoholic liquor and ethyl alcohol from the division only:

1. (a) To a registered pharmacist operating a drug store, for scientific and mechanical purposes and for compounding and preparing medicines.
2. (b) To a licensed physician, dentist, or veterinarian or other licensed practitioner entitled to prescribe for healing purposes, for administering medicinally and in compounding prescriptions.
3. (c) To a person in charge of a regularly conducted hospital or sanitorium for administering to the sick and aged.
4. (d) To a person in charge of a laboratory for use in scientific pursuits and experiments.
5. (e) For other purposes, similar to those mentioned in this section and not specifically covered by this act.

[23-512, added 1939, ch. 222, sec. 812, p. 465; am. 1963, ch. 296, sec. 3, p. 785; am. 2009, ch. 23, sec. 41, p. 64.]