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1. No person licensed by the State of Utah or authorized under the laws of the State of Utah to proscribe or dispense a controlled substance shall distribute a controlled substance unless it is packaged and labeled in compliance with the requirements of Section 305 of the Federal Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control of 1970.

2. No person except a pharmacist for the purpose of filling a prescription shall alter, deface, or remove any label affixed by the manufacturer.

3. Wherever a pharmacist sells or dispenses any controlled substance on a prescription issued by a practitioner, he shall affix to the container in which the substance is sold or dispensed a label showing his own name, address, and registry number, or the name, address, and registry number of the pharmacist or pharmacy owner for whom he is lawfully acting; the prescription number, the name of the patient, or if the patient is an animal, the name of the owner of the animal and species of the animal, the name of the practitioner by whom the prescription was written; any directions stated on the prescription and any directions as required by state or federal rules and regulations. No person shall alter the face or remove any label so long as any of the original contents remain.

4. An individual to whom or for whose use any controlled substance has been prescribed, sold, or dispensed by a practitioner or pharmacist and the owner of any animal for which any substance has been prescribed, sold, or dispensed by a veterinarian may lawfully possess it only in the container in which it was delivered to him by the person selling or dispensing it. (Ord. 97-1, amended, 2000; Prior code §12-20)