New Hampshire § 318-40 - Section 318:40 Unauthorized Practice of Pharmacy.
Full text of New Hampshire New Hampshire Revised Statutes Annotated § 318-40 — Section 318:40 Unauthorized Practice of Pharmacy., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 318-40. Section 318:40 Unauthorized Practice of Pharmacy.
Except as provided by RSA 318:42, no person shall engage in the practice of pharmacy without first being licensed by the office. No person shall impersonate a pharmacist or falsely claim to be a pharmacist. No person owning, managing, or conducting any store, not being a licensed pharmacist or having one in his employ, shall exhibit within or outside of such store, or include in any advertisement, the words "drug store", "pharmacy", "apothecary", "drug", "drugs", "medicine", or "medicine shop", or any combination of these terms or other words indicating that such store is a place where medicines are compounded or sold, or exhibit within or without his place of business or in connection with his business any show bottle or globe of colored glass or globe filled with colored liquid which creates the impression that prescription drugs are being offered for sale.
Source: official New Hampshire text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 318-40 ("Section 318:40 Unauthorized Practice of Pharmacy.") is part of the New Hampshire Revised Statutes Annotated, the codified statutory law of New Hampshire. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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