The following terms shall have the following meanings, when used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates:

(1) “Retail drug trade” means the selling to the consumer, not for the purpose of resale, of any form of drugs, medicines, cosmetics, toilet preparations, drug sundries or allied articles, but shall not include the dispensing of drugs, medicines and medical supplies by a physician, dentist, surgeon or veterinary in the legitimate practice of his profession;

(2) “Drug retailer” means any individual, firm or corporation engaged wholly or partially in the retail drug trade;

(3) “Retail drug establishment” means any store or department of a store engaged in the retail drug trade;

(4) “Drug” means any substance or preparation, except soaps, intended for external or internal use in the cure, mitigation, treatment, remedy or prevention of disease or ailment in man or any other animal, and any substance or preparation intended to affect the structure or function of the body of man or any other animal, not including food, but including medicinal or quasi-medicinal preparations;

(5) “Cosmetics” and “toilet preparations” mean toilet articles and perfumes, toilet waters, face powders, creams, lotions, rouges, shaving creams, dentifrices, bath salts and all other similar preparations and substances, except soaps, designed and intended for application to the person for the purpose of cleansing, improving or changing in any way the appearance of the person, or of refreshing or preserving the person;

(6) “Drug sundries” means such articles as are used in conjunction with, but not included in, drugs, cosmetics or toilet preparations;

(7) “Manufacturer's wholesale list price” means the manufacturer's published wholesale price or, if there is no such published or list price, the invoice price, exclusive of all discounts, of the wholesaler to the retailer.

(1949 Rev., S. 3957; 1963, P.A. 319.)

History: 1963 act added Subsec. (g); Sec. 19-240 transferred to Sec. 21a-126 in 1983 and alphabetic Subdiv. indicators replaced editorially by the Revisors with numeric indicators for consistency with general use elsewhere in general statutes.