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90_SB0148
720 ILCS 635/2 from Ch. 38, par. 22-51
Amends the Hypodermic Syringes and Needles Act. Provides
that the Act does not prohibit the purchase of a maximum of
10 hypodermic needles at any one time without a prescription.
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1 AN ACT to amend the Hypodermic Syringes and Needles Act
2 by changing Section 2.
3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
4 represented in the General Assembly:
5 Section 5. The Hypodermic Syringes and Needles Act is
6 amended by changing Section 2 as follows:
7 (720 ILCS 635/2) (from Ch. 38, par. 22-51)
8 Sec. 2. No such syringe, needle or instrument shall be
9 delivered or sold to, or exchanged with, any person except a
10 registered pharmacist, physician, dentist, veterinarian,
11 registered embalmer, manufacturer or dealer in embalming
12 supplies, wholesale druggist, manufacturing pharmacist,
13 industrial user, a nurse upon the written order of a
14 physician or dentist, the holder of a permit issued under
15 Section 5 of this Act, a registered chiropodist, or an
16 employee of an incorporated hospital upon the written order
17 of its superintendent or officer in immediate charge;
18 provided that the provisions of this Act shall not prohibit
19 the sale, possession or use of hypodermic syringes or
20 hypodermic needles for treatment of livestock or poultry by
21 the owner or keeper thereof or a person engaged in chemical,
22 clinical, pharmaceutical or other scientific research. This
23 Act does not prohibit the purchase of a maximum of 10
24 hypodermic needles at any one time without a prescription,
25 nor the sale or possession of those hypodermic needles
26 incidental to that purchase.
27 (Source: Laws 1955, p. 1408.)