Arkansas Code
Subchapter 4 - Pharmacies
§ 17-92-404. Pharmacy permit required

(a) No person shall conduct any pharmacy or other facility as identified in § 17-92-403 in which practitioners' prescriptions are compounded and drugs are retailed or dispensed and in which a licensed pharmacist-in-charge must be employed unless the pharmacy or other facility as identified in § 17-92-403 has obtained a permit issued by the Arkansas State Board of Pharmacy.
(b)
(1) Keeping a pharmacy or other facility as identified in § 17-92-403 where drugs and medicines or chemicals are dispensed or sold or displayed for sale at retail or where prescriptions are compounded or which has on it a sign using the words “pharmacist”, “pharmaceutical chemist”, “apothecary”, “pharmacy”, “druggist”, “drug store”, “drugs”, or their equivalent in any language, or advertising such a store or shop as a drugstore, apothecary shop, or pharmacy by any method or means shall be prima facie evidence of the sale and dispensing of drugs.
(2) Unless the place so conducted holds a permit issued by the board, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation:
(A) To carry on, conduct, or transact a retail business under any name that contains as a part thereof the words “drugs”, “drugstore”, “pharmacy”, “medicine”, “apothecary”, or “chemist shop” or any abbreviation, translation, extension, or variation thereof; or
(B) In the operation of any pharmacy or other facility as identified in § 17-92-403 in any manner by advertisement, circular, poster, telephone directory listing, sign, or otherwise, to describe or refer to the place of business conducted by such a person, firm, or corporation by such a term, abbreviation, translation, extension, or variation.

(3) Any person, firm, or corporation violating this subsection shall be guilty of a violation and, if a corporation, any officer thereof who participates in such a violation also shall be guilty of a violation and shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than three hundred dollars ($300).

(c)
(1) The control of the dispensing of medicines being essential to the protection of the public health and general welfare of the people, any violation of subsection (b) of this section may be enjoined by action in any court of competent jurisdiction at the instance of the board or of the owner of any licensed pharmacy.
(2) Proceedings under this subsection shall be governed by rules applicable to circuit courts.

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