Section 2
SEC. 2. The Board shall, moreover, have the following duties, powers, and attributes: (a) To authorize, after inspection, the opening of pharmacies, drug stores, and dispensaries by persons authorized therefor by law. (b) To inspect, at least once each year, the pharmacies, dispensaries, drug stores, and similar establishments established in the Philippine Islands and the pharmacies and dispensaries belonging to hospitals, asylums, prisons, sanatoria, and similar establishments. (c) To collect samples of drugs, medicines, specifics, remedies, and similar products displayed for sale or imported through the customhouses of the Philippine Islands for medicinal purposes, for the purpose of forwarding the same, in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the regulations issued thereunder and of the Pure Food and Drugs Act, to the Bureau of Science for analysis and examination; and to exclude from sale those not conforming to the standards of quality, concentration, and purity established by the Pharmacopoeia of the United States, last edition, or by recognized formularies, provided the person concerned certify in writing to the authenticity of the formula taken from a foreign formulary. (d) To issue regulations for the exercise of the pharmaceutical profession and for the enforcement of this Act, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Interior. (e) To classify and regulate the sale of poisonous, abortive, corrosive, and anti-conceptional substances, in accordance with section fifteen hundred and seventy-five of the Administrative Code. (f) To classify and regulate the sale of drugs and household remedies of common use by persons of good character and morals, upon examination satisfactory to the Board. Such licenses shall be good for one year only for pueblos or barrios in which no pharmacy exists and which are situate not less than ten kilometers away from any pharmacy. (g) To investigate such violations of the present Act and the regulations issued thereunder as may come to their knowledge, and for this purpose to issue subpoenas and subpcenas duces tecum to have witnesses appear and testify before them under oath, (and the appearance or testimony of an absent or contumacious witness may be enforced by application to the justice of the peace court or the Court of First Instance), and to report the result of their investigation to the fiscal of the province, for the prosecution of those found to be guilty. (h) To report, if called upon, on any conflict that may arise between pharmacists or druggists and the Bureau of Internal Revenue or any other office or bureau of the Insular Government. (i) To revoke or temporarily suspend the license of any druggist, pharmacist, practicante de farmada, or other person authorized to sell drugs, medicines, and household remedies, for any of the following causes: moral turpitude, mental incapacity, and unprofessional conduct.