| (A) To suspend, revoke, and cancel permits. A majority of
the | 11 |
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commissioners constitutes a quorum for the transaction of any | 12 |
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business, for the performance of any duty, or for the exercise of | 13 |
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any power of the commission. No vacancy in the commission shall | 14 |
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impair the right of the remaining commissioners to exercise all | 15 |
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powers of the commission. The act of a majority of the
commission, | 16 |
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when in session, is the act of the commission. A
finding, order, | 17 |
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or decision of the commission to suspend a permit
shall state and | 18 |
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fix the effective date of the commencement and
the period of | 19 |
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duration of such suspension. Such finding, order,
or decision of | 20 |
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the commission to revoke or cancel a permit shall
state and fix | 21 |
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the effective date thereof. | 22 |
| (B) To consider, hear, and determine all appeals
authorized | 23 |
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by Chapters 4301. and 4303. of the Revised Code, to be
taken from | 24 |
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any decision, determination, or order of the
division of liquor | 25 |
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control, and all complaints for the
revocation of permits.
The | 26 |
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liquor control commission shall accord a hearing to any
person | 27 |
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appealing or complained against, at which such person has
the | 28 |
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right to be present, to be represented by counsel, to offer | 29 |
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evidence, and to require the attendance of witnesses. | 30 |
| (E) To require of the superintendent and of any officer, | 43 |
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department, board, or commission of the state of any county, | 44 |
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township, or municipal officer in this state, information with | 45 |
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respect to the social and economic effects of such chapters; and | 46 |
|
all such officers, departments, boards, and commissions shall | 47 |
|
furnish such information when requested in writing by the liquor | 48 |
|
control commission. | 49 |
| (G) For the purpose of any hearing or investigation which | 53 |
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they are respectively authorized or required by such chapters to | 54 |
|
conduct, the liquor control commission or any member thereof, the | 55 |
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superintendent, or any agent of the division
designated in writing | 56 |
|
for that purpose, may administer oaths, take depositions, issue | 57 |
|
subpoenas, compel the attendance of witnesses and the production | 58 |
|
of books, accounts, papers, records, documents, and testimony.
In | 59 |
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case of disobedience of any person with respect to an order of
the | 60 |
|
commission or a subpoena issued by the liquor control
commission | 61 |
|
or any member thereof, the superintendent or such
agent, or
on the | 62 |
|
refusal of a witness to testify to any matter regarding
which the | 63 |
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witness may be lawfully interrogated, a judge of the court
of | 64 |
|
common pleas of the county in which the person resides, on | 65 |
|
application of any member of the liquor control commission or the | 66 |
|
superintendent, shall compel obedience by attachment
proceedings | 67 |
|
as for
contempt, as in the case of disobedience with respect to | 68 |
|
the
requirements of a subpoena issued from such court or a refusal | 69 |
|
to
testify in such court. Each officer who serves such subpoena | 70 |
|
shall receive the same fees as a sheriff, and each witness who | 71 |
|
appears, in obedience to a subpoena, before the liquor control | 72 |
|
commission or any member thereof, or the superintendent, shall | 73 |
|
receive
for attendance the fees and mileage provided for witnesses | 74 |
|
in
civil cases in courts of common pleas, which shall be audited | 75 |
|
and
paid upon presentation of proper vouchers approved by any two | 76 |
|
members of the commission. No witness subpoenaed at the instance | 77 |
|
of a party other than the liquor control commission or any member | 78 |
|
thereof, the superintendent, or such agent, is entitled to | 79 |
|
compensation
unless the commission certifies that the testimony of | 80 |
|
the
witness was material
to the matter investigated. | 81 |