A duly licensed manufacturer or wholesaler may sell and distribute controlled substances on official written orders to any of the following persons:

(1)  To a manufacturer or wholesaler;

(2)  To a practitioner;

(3)  To a person in charge of a hospital, but only for use by or in that hospital;

(4)  To a person in charge of a laboratory, but only for use by or in that laboratory;

(5)  To any other person lawfully permitted to possess controlled substances under federal law.

History of Section.
P.L. 1974, ch. 183, § 2.