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720 ILCS 635/2

(720 ILCS 635/2) (from Ch. 38, par. 22-51)

Sec. 2. Sale of hypodermic syringes and needles.

(a) Except
as provided in subsection (b), no syringe, needle or instrument shall
be delivered or sold
to, or exchanged with, any person except a registered pharmacist,
physician, dentist, veterinarian, registered embalmer, manufacturer or
dealer in embalming supplies, wholesale druggist, manufacturing pharmacist,
industrial user, a nurse upon the written order of a physician or dentist,
the holder of a permit issued under Section 5 of this Act, a registered
chiropodist, or an employee of an incorporated hospital upon the written
order of its superintendent or officer in immediate charge; provided that
the provisions of this Act shall not prohibit the sale, possession or use
of hypodermic syringes or hypodermic needles for treatment of livestock or
poultry by the owner or keeper thereof or a person engaged in chemical,
clinical, pharmaceutical or other scientific research, or a staff person, volunteer, or participant in a needle or hypodermic syringe access program.

(b) A pharmacist may sell up to 100 sterile hypodermic syringes or needles
to a person
who is
at least 18 years of age.
A syringe or needle sold under this subsection
(b) must be
stored at a
pharmacy
and in a manner that limits access to the syringes or needles to pharmacists
employed at
the
pharmacy and any persons designated by the pharmacists.  A syringe or
needle sold
at a
pharmacy under this subsection (b) may be sold only from the pharmacy
department
of the pharmacy.

(Source: P.A. 100-326, eff. 1-1-18; 101-356, eff. 8-9-19.)