CODIFICATION OF INTERNAL REVENUE LAWS and where said drugs are dispensed or administered to the patient for legitimate medical purposes, and the record kept as required by this subchapter of the drugs so dispensed, administered, dis- tributed, or given away. SEC. 2554. ORDER FORMS. (a) GENERAL REQUIREMENT. -It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, barter, exchange, or give away any of the drugs mentioned in section 2550 (a) except in pursuance of a written order of the person to whom such article is sold, bartered, exchanged, or given, on a form to be issued in blank for that purpose by the Secretary. (b) ExcEPTION IN CASE OF VIRGIN IsLANDs. -T he President is au- thorized and directed to issue such Executive orders as will permit those persons in the Virgin Islands of the United States lawfully entitled to sell, deal in, dispense, prescribe, and distribute the drugs mentioned in section 2550 (a), to obtain said drugs from persons registered under section 3221 within the continental United States for legitimate medical purposes, without regard to the order forms described in this section. (c) OrTER EXCEPrIoNS.-Nothing contained in this section, section 2563, or section 2564 shall apply- (1) USE OF DRUGS IN PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE. - To the dispensing or distribution of any of the drugs mentioned in section 2550 (a) to a patient by a physician, dentist, or veterinary surgeon regis- tered under section 3221 in the course of his professional prac- tice only: Provided, That such physician, dentist, or veterinary surgeon shall keep a record of all such drugs dispensed or dis- tributed, showing the amount dispensed or distributed, the date, and the name and address of the patient to whom such drugs are dispensed or distributed, except such as may be dispensed or dis- tributed to a patient upon whom such physician, dentist, or veter- inary surgeon shall personally attend; and such record shall be kept for a period of two years from the date of dispensing or dis- tributing such drugs, subject to inspection, as provided in sec- tion 2556. (2) PRESCRIPTIONs.- To the sale, dispensing, or distribution of any of the drugs mentioned in section 2550 (a) by a dealer to a consumer under and in pursuance of a written prescription issued by a physician, dentist, or veterinary surgeon registered under section 3221: Provided, however, That such prescription shall be dated as of the day on which signed and shall be signed by the physician, dentist, or veterinary surgeon who shall have issued the same: And provided further That such dealer shall pre- serve such prescription for a period of two years from the day on which such prescription is filled in such a way as to be readily accessible to inspection by the officers, agents, employees, and offi- cials mentioned in section 2556. (3) EXPORTATION.- To the sale, exportation, shipment, or deliv- ery of any of the drugs mentioned in section 2550 (a) by any person within the United States or any Territory or the District of Columbia or any of the insular possessions of the United States to any person in any foreign country, regulating their entry in accordance with such regulations for importation thereof into such foreign country as are prescribed by said country, such regu- lations to be promulgated from time to time by the Secretary of State of the United States. (4) GovERNMENT AND STATE orFCIALS. - To the sale, barter, ex- change, or giving away of any of the drugs mentioned in section 2550 (a) to any officer of the United States Government or of any State, Territorial, district, county, or municipal or insular govern- ment lawfully engaged in making purchases thereof for the vari- 272
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