                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DISPENSING DRUGS WITHOUT SAFETY CLOSURE CONTAINER (§ 54.1-3427)

When a pharmacist receives the request of any person that a drug or drugs for
such person to be dispensed by the pharmacist not be placed in a safety closure
container, the pharmacist may dispense such drug or drugs in such nonsafety
closure container. The delivering pharmacist shall not be civilly liable simply
by reason of dispensing a drug or drugs in such a container if the recipient
signs a release covering a period of time or a single delivery, which release
provides that the recipient releases the pharmacist from civil liability for not
using the safety closure container, unless the pharmacist acted with willful and
wanton disregard of safety.

HISTORY: 1978, c. 839, § 54-524.67:2; 1988, c. 765.