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To amend section 4301.20 of the Revised Code to allow | 1 |
manufacturers of nonbeverage food products to | 2 |
purchase at wholesale beer and intoxicating liquor | 3 |
from A and B liquor permit holders. | 4 |
Section 1. That section 4301.20 of the Revised Code be | 5 |
amended to read as follows: | 6 |
Sec. 4301.20. This chapter and Chapter 4303. of the Revised | 7 |
Code do not prevent the following: | 8 |
(A) The storage of intoxicating liquor in bonded warehouses, | 9 |
established in accordance with the acts of congress and under the | 10 |
regulation of the United States, located in this state, or the | 11 |
transportation of intoxicating liquor to or from bonded warehouses | 12 |
of the United States wherever located; | 13 |
(B) A bona fide resident of this state who is the owner of a | 14 |
warehouse receipt from obtaining or transporting to the resident's | 15 |
residence for the resident's own consumption and not for resale | 16 |
spirituous liquor stored in a government bonded warehouse in this | 17 |
state or in another state prior to December 1933, subject to such | 18 |
terms as are prescribed by the division of liquor control; | 19 |
(C) The manufacture of cider from fruit for the purpose of | 20 |
making vinegar, and nonintoxicating cider and fruit juices for use | 21 |
and sale; | 22 |
(D) A licensed physician or dentist from administering or | 23 |
dispensing intoxicating liquor or alcohol to a patient in good | 24 |
faith in the actual course of the practice of the physician's or | 25 |
dentist's profession; | 26 |
(E) The sale of alcohol to physicians, dentists, druggists, | 27 |
veterinary surgeons, manufacturers, hospitals, infirmaries, or | 28 |
medical or educational institutions using the alcohol for | 29 |
medicinal, mechanical, chemical, or scientific purposes; | 30 |
(F) The sale, gift, or keeping for sale by druggists and | 31 |
others of any of the medicinal preparations manufactured in | 32 |
accordance with the formulas prescribed by the United States | 33 |
Pharmacopoeia and National Formulary, patent or proprietary | 34 |
preparations, and other bona fide medicinal and technical | 35 |
preparations, which contain no more alcohol than is necessary to | 36 |
hold the medicinal agents in solution and to preserve the same, | 37 |
which are manufactured and sold as medicine and not as beverages, | 38 |
are unfit for use for beverage purposes, and the sale of which | 39 |
does not require the payment of a United States liquor dealer's | 40 |
tax; | 41 |
(G) The manufacture and sale of tinctures or of toilet, | 42 |
medicinal, and antiseptic preparations and solutions not intended | 43 |
for internal human use nor to be sold as beverages, and which are | 44 |
unfit for beverage purposes, if upon the outside of each bottle, | 45 |
box, or package of which there is printed in the English language, | 46 |
conspicuously and legibly, the quantity by volume of alcohol in | 47 |
the preparation or solution; | 48 |
(H) The manufacture and keeping for sale of the food products | 49 |
known as flavoring extracts when manufactured and sold for | 50 |
cooking, culinary, or flavoring purposes, and which are unfit for | 51 |
use for beverage purposes; | 52 |
(I) The lawful sale of wood alcohol or of ethyl alcohol for | 53 |
external use when combined with other substances as to make it | 54 |
unfit for internal use; | 55 |
(J) The manufacture, sale, and transport of ethanol or ethyl | 56 |
alcohol for use as fuel. As used in this division, "ethanol" has | 57 |
the same meaning as in section 5733.46 of the Revised Code. | 58 |
(K) The purchase and importation into this state or the | 59 |
purchase at wholesale from A or B permit holders in this state of | 60 |
beer and intoxicating liquor for use in manufacturing processes of | 61 |
nonbeverage food products under terms prescribed by the division, | 62 |
provided that the terms prescribed by the division shall not | 63 |
increase the cost of the beer or intoxicating liquor to any | 64 |
person, firm, or corporation purchasing and importing it into this | 65 |
state or purchasing it from an A or B permit holder for that use; | 66 |
(L) Any resident of this state or any member of the armed | 67 |
forces of the United States, who has attained the age of | 68 |
twenty-one years, from bringing into this state, for personal use | 69 |
and not for resale, not more than one liter of spirituous liquor | 70 |
in any thirty-day period, and the same is free of any tax consent | 71 |
fee when the resident or member of the armed forces physically | 72 |
possesses and accompanies the spirituous liquor on returning from | 73 |
a foreign country, another state, or an insular possession of the | 74 |
United States; | 75 |
(M) Persons, at least twenty-one years of age, who collect | 76 |
ceramic commemorative bottles containing spirituous liquor that | 77 |
have unbroken federal tax stamps on them from selling or trading | 78 |
the bottles to other collectors. The bottles shall originally have | 79 |
been purchased at retail from the division, legally imported under | 80 |
division (L) of this section, or legally imported pursuant to a | 81 |
supplier registration issued by the division. The sales shall be | 82 |
for the purpose of exchanging a ceramic commemorative bottle | 83 |
between private collectors and shall not be for the purpose of | 84 |
selling the spirituous liquor for personal consumption. The sale | 85 |
or exchange authorized by this division shall not occur on the | 86 |
premises of any permit holder, shall not be made in connection | 87 |
with the business of any permit holder, and shall not be made in | 88 |
connection with any mercantile business. | 89 |
(N) The sale of beer or intoxicating liquor without a liquor | 90 |
permit at a private residence, not more than five times per | 91 |
calendar year at a residence address, at an event that has the | 92 |
following characteristics: | 93 |
(1) The event is for a charitable, benevolent, or political | 94 |
purpose, but shall not include any event the proceeds of which are | 95 |
for the profit or gain of any individual; | 96 |
(2) The event has in attendance not more than fifty people; | 97 |
(3) The event shall be for a period not to exceed twelve | 98 |
hours; | 99 |
(4) The sale of beer and intoxicating liquor at the event | 100 |
shall not take place between two-thirty a.m. and five-thirty a.m.; | 101 |
(5) No person under twenty-one years of age shall purchase or | 102 |
consume beer or intoxicating liquor at the event and no beer or | 103 |
intoxicating liquor shall be sold to any person under twenty-one | 104 |
years of age at the event; and | 105 |
(6) No person at the event shall sell or furnish beer or | 106 |
intoxicating liquor to an intoxicated person. | 107 |
Section 2. That existing section 4301.20 of the Revised Code | 108 |
is hereby repealed. | 109 |