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CHAPTER 277 AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE FILLING OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS FOR ELDERLY AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Section 21 of chapter 94C of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1986 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph:-

Upon the request of an elderly person, as defined in section fourteen of chapter nineteen A or a person visually impaired, directions on the label affixed by the pharmacist to a container of a prescription drug shall be typed in a print size allowing no more than ten characters per inch.

Approved November 8, 1988.