155A.21  Unlawful possession of prescription drug -- penalty.

1.  A person found in possession of a drug limited to dispensation by prescription, unless the drug was so lawfully dispensed, commits a serious misdemeanor.

2.  Subsection 1 does not apply to a licensed pharmacy, licensed wholesaler, physician, veterinarian, dentist, podiatric physician, therapeutically certified optometrist, a nurse acting under the direction of a physician, or the board of pharmacy examiners, its officers, agents, inspectors, and representatives, nor to a common carrier, manufacturer's representative, or messenger when transporting the drug in the same unbroken package in which the drug was delivered to that person for transportation.

Section History: Recent form

  87 Acts, ch 215, § 21; 95 Acts, ch 108, § 14


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