2011 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 26 — Liquors-alcoholic beverages
RS 26:715 — Prescribing beverages of high alcoholic content as medicine to evade prohibition law; penalty


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§715. Prescribing beverages of high alcoholic content as medicine to evade prohibition law; penalty

Any physician or practitioner of medicine who prescribed beverages of high alcoholic content for any person with intent to evade, or with intent to assist others to evade, any state law or local ordinance prohibiting the sale and consumption, or either, of beverages of high alcoholic content shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars and imprisoned for not less than thirty days nor more than four months.

Acts 1987, No. 696, §1.

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