Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 76A.djvu/547

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451such an undue quantity of steam as to burst the boiler, engine, or apparatus, or to cause any other accident whereby the death of a human being is produced, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not more than 10 years. § 1115. Setting on fire grass or shrubbery Whoever willfully or negligently sets on fire, or causes or procures to be set on fire, grass or shrubbery on any lands, shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned in jail not more than 30 days, or both. § 1116. Resistance to fireman extingisliing fire Whoever, at the burning of a building: (1) disobeys the lawful orders of a public officer or fireman; (2) offers resistance to, or interference with, the lawful efforts of a fireman or company of firemen to extinguish the fire; (3) engages in disorderly conduct calculated to prevent the fire from being extinguished; or (4) forbids, prevents, or dissuades other persons from assisting to extinguish the fire— shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned in jail not more than 30 days, or both. Subchapter II—Food and Drugs Article A—General Provisions

§ 1131. Adulterating or selling adulterated food or drugs Whoever: (1) adulterates or dilutes any food, drink, drug, medicine, spirituous or malt liquor, or wine, or any article useful in compounding them, with a fraudulent intent to offer it, or cause or permit it to be offered, for sale as unadulterated or imdiluted; or (2) fraudulently sells, or keeps or offers for sale, as unadulterated or undiluted, any article or component thereof referred to by paragraph (1) of this section which has been adulterated or diluted— shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned in jail not more than 30 days, or both. § 1132. Wrongful preparation or labeling of drugs or medicines by druggist Whoever, being an apothecary, or a druggist, or a person carrying on business as a dealer in drugs or medicines, or an employee thereof, in putting up drugs or medicines, or making up a prescription, or filling an order for drugs or medicines: (1) willfully, negligently, or without consideration of those facts which by use of ordinary care and skill he should have known, omits to label a drug or medicine; (2) puts an untrue label, stamp, or other designation of contents upon a box, bottle, or other package containing drugs or medicines; (3) substitutes a different article for an article prescribed or ordered; (4) puts up a greater or less quality of an article than that prescribed or ordered; or (5) otherwise deviates from the terms of the prescription or order which he undertakes to follow— in consequence of which human life or health is endangered, shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned in jail not more than 30 days, or both; or if death ensues, is guilty of manslaughter, and shall be punished accordingly.