2015 Louisiana Laws
Revised Statutes
TITLE 40 - Public Health and Safety
RS 40:2009.12 - Sleeping potion, sedatives or injections without prescription; penalties
§2009.12. Sleeping potion, sedatives or injections without prescription; penalties
It shall be unlawful for anyone operating a nursing home, or any employee thereof, to administer any sleeping potion or sedative or any hypodermic injections without a doctor's prescription to any patron of any such nursing home. Any violation of this section by any employee, operator or owner of a nursing home shall be cause for cancellation of license in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter and such violator shall also be subject to the criminal penalties imposed by R.S. 40:981 relating to narcotics or R.S. 40:1046 relating to barbiturates insofar as applicable.
Added by Acts 1958, No. 188, §1.
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