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- 7- (2) A hospital, owner of a pharmacy or pharmacist in the regular course of business; (3) Any practitioner, nurse or other person authorized to administer injections, in the regular course of his profession or employment; (4) Any person, when the hypodermic in his possession was lawfully ob- tained and is kept and used for the purpose of self-administration o£ insulin or other drug prescribed by a practitioner for the treatment of disease; (5) Any person whose use of a hypodermic is for legal research, clinical or medicinal purposes; (6) Any farmer, for the lawful administration o£ a drug to an animal; (7) Any person whose use of a hypodermic is for lawful professional, mechanical, trade or craft purposes. (b) No manufacturer or distributor of, or dealer in, hypodermics or medi- cation packaged in hypodermics, or their authorizdd agents or employees, and no owner of a pharmacy, or pharmacist, shall display any hypodermic for sale. No person authorized to possess a hypodexmic pursuant to subsection (a) hereof shall negligently fail to take reasonable precautions to prevent any hypodermic in his possession £rom theft or acquisition by any authorized person, or negligently discard a hypodermic without first having rendered it completely unusable £or its original purpose. (c) A pharmacist or person under the direct supervision of a pharmacist may £urnish hypodermics to anoth2r without a prescription by a practitioner, but the pharmacist or person under his supervision shall reqire positive identification o£ each person to whom hypodermics are furnished, and shall keep a written record o£ each transaction, including the date, the type and quantity of the articles furnished, and the name, address and signa- ture of the person to whom such articles are furnished. Such record shall be retained in the same manner as the exempt narcotics register. No pharmacist or person under his supervision shall fail to comply with this subsection (c) in furnishing hypodermics. (See Ohio RC 3719.172). (d) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. If the offender has previously been convicted of a violation of this section,,Ohio RC 3719.05, 3719.06, 3719.13, 3719.172(B) or (E), or 3719.31 or a drug abuse offense, a violation is a misdemeanor of the first degree. (See Ohio RC 3719.99(D)). 513.99 Penalty. Note: Penalties applicable to any misdemeanor classification are provided for in Ohio RC 2929.21.