1. (a)

   1. (1) In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.
   2. (2) “Drug” means a drug, medicine, or a medicinal or chemical preparation for internal human consumption.
   3. (3) “Prepare” means to make, mix, manufacture, or compound.

2. (b) A person who is engaged in the business of preparing or dispensing a drug for internal human consumption may not prepare, dispense, sell, or deliver the drug to a person directly or through an agent or employee if:

   1. (1) ethyl alcohol is usually used to prepare the drug; and
   2. (2) the preparer, or the preparer's agent or employee, in any manner uses or substitutes methyl alcohol for ethyl alcohol, or puts methyl alcohol into the drug.
3. (c) A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is subject to imprisonment for not less than 3 months and not exceeding 1 year or a fine of not less than $100 and not exceeding $500 or both.

Added as Criminal Law § 8-802 by Acts 2002, c. 26, § 2, eff. Oct. 1, 2002. Renumbered as Criminal Law § 8-902 by Acts 2002, c. 479, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2002; Acts 2002, c. 480, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 2002.

Formerly Art. 27, § 230.