O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 26-4-1 (2019)

Short title

✓ O.C.G.A.: 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Georgia Pharmacy Practice Act.”

History

Code 1981, § 26-4-1, enacted by Ga. L. 1998, p. 686, § 1.

Annotations

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Editor's notes. - In light of the similarity of the statutory provisions, annotations decided under former Code 1933, § 79A-518 are included in the annotations for this Code section.

Word "apothecary" in business title not misleading if business clearly not pharmacy. - Purpose of former Code 1933, § 79A-518 (see now O.C.G.A. § 26-4-117) was to safeguard the public health, safety, and welfare by preventing the creation of business establishments which tend to mislead the public into believing the establishments are pharmacies when they are not; a lounge with the business title "Apothecary Lounge" would not likely mislead the public into believing that this establishment was a pharmacy. 1970 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 70-143 (decided under former Code 1933, § 79A-518).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Carolina Cas. Ins. Co. v. R.L. Brown & Assocs., F. Supp. 2d (N.D. Ga. Sept. 29, 2006).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

Am. Jur. 2d. - 25 Am. Jur. 2d, Drugs and Controlled Substances, §§ 81, 82.

C.J.S. - 28 C.J.S., Drugs and Narcotics, § 14 et seq.

ALR. - Constitutionality of statute regulating sale of poisons, drugs, or medicines, 54 A.L.R. 730.

Constitutionality of statute regulating sale or dispensation of medicines or drugs in original package, 54 A.L.R. 744.