(a) It is unlawful:

1. (1) For any person to display or permit to be displayed, a pharmacy permit in any facility or place of business other than that for which it was issued.
2. (2) For any person to accept a prescription for filling or compounding at any place or facility for which there is not a valid pharmacy permit.
3. (3) For any person to operate a pharmacy or to take, assume, exhibit, display, or advertise by any medium, the title "drugs", "prescriptions", "medicine", "drug store", "pharmacy", or "apothecary shop", or any combination of such titles or any other title, symbol, term, or description of like import intended to cause the public to believe that it is a pharmacy unless the person holds a valid pharmacy permit.
4. (4) For any person to engage or offer to engage in the practice of pharmacy or to hold himself or herself out as a pharmacist without a valid pharmacist's license that is classified as active by the board.

(c) Nothing in this chapter shall apply to, nor in any manner interfere with the business of a general merchant in selling and distributing nonnarcotic, nonprescription medicines or drugs which are prepackaged, fully prepared by the manufacturer for use by the consumer, and labeled in accordance with the requirements of the state and federal food and drug acts.

As added by Acts 1977, P.L.276, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.158-2013, SEC.285.