North Dakota Code § 19-04-01

Selling certain enumerated poisons regulated - Penalty
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Every person who, at retail, without receiving a physician's prescription specifying that such 
prescription shall contain a poison and giving the name thereof, sells, furnishes, gives away, or 
delivers to another:
1. Arsenic or any preparation thereof, corrosive sublimate, white precipitate, red 
precipitate, biniodide of mercury, cyanide of potassium, hydrocyanic acid, strychnia, or 
any other poison or vegetable alkaloid, or the salts thereof, or essential oil of bitter 
almonds; or
2. Aconite, belladonna, colchicum, conium, formaldehyde, nux vomica, henbane, savin, 
ergot, cotton root, cantharides, creosote, digitalis, or the pharmaceutical preparations 
of any of them, croton oil, chloroform, sulfate of zinc, mineral acids, carbolic acid, or 
oxalic acid,
without affixing to the bottle, box, vessel, or package containing the same, the name of the 
contents, the word "poison", and the person's name and place of business, is guilty of a class A 
misdemeanor. Any storekeeper, however, may sell in original, unbroken packages, fungicides 
and insecticides, including formaldehyde and Paris green, generally used for agricultural 
purposes which have been designated as such by the state board of pharmacy.

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