130th Ohio General Assembly
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Sub. H. B. No. 402  As Reported by the Senate Agriculture Committee
As Reported by the Senate Agriculture Committee

122nd General Assembly
Regular Session
1997-1998
Sub. H. B. No. 402


Representatives Schuler, Garcia, Corbin, Mead, Britton, Taylor, Mottley, Jacobson, Reid, Lewis, Sawyer 



A BILL
To amend sections 119.12, 2933.41, 3767.01, 3767.03, 3767.05, 4301.01, 4301.25, 4301.252, 4301.32, 4301.321, 4301.322, 4301.33, 4301.331, 4301.332, 4301.34, 4301.35, 4301.351, 4301.352, 4301.353, 4301.354, 4301.36, 4301.361, 4301.362, 4301.363, 4301.364, 4301.37, 4301.39, 4301.40, 4301.401, 4301.74, 4303.021, 4303.181, 4303.202, 4303.26, 4303.261, 4303.29, 4303.292, and 4305.14, to enact sections 4301.281, 4301.323, 4301.324, 4301.333, 4301.334, 4301.355, 4301.356, 4301.365, 4301.366, and 4301.404 and to repeal sections 4301.211 and 4301.73 of the Revised Code to remove the prohibition against a liquor permit holder advertising the retail price of beer and malt beverages off the permit holder's premises, to make changes in local option elections including the elimination of resident districts, to modify the application of local option liquor elections to state agency stores, to consolidate the adjudication of liquor law nuisances with other statutory nuisances, to authorize the holding of a local option election, on the sale of beer and intoxicating liquor at a community facility, within the municipal corporation or unincorporated area of the township in which the community facility is located, to prohibit the issuance or renewal of liquor permits at and the transfer of liquor permits to a premises that has been found to be a nuisance, to make changes regarding the criteria for issuance of D-5i permits, to specify that when a property is divided between two election precincts with differing rules governing the sale of beer or intoxicating liquor because of the results of local option elections, the property is considered to be in the precinct where the sale of beer or intoxicating liquor is allowed, to modify the requirements for obtaining an F-2 permit to authorize the sale of beer, wine, and spirituous liquor by certain organizations for not more than 48 hours for on-premises consumption in an area where the sale of beer and wine, but not spirituous liquor, for on-premises consumption is allowed, and to provide that beer, intoxicating liquor, or alcohol seized by the Division of Liquor Control may be used for law enforcement training activities.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1.  That sections 119.12, 2933.41, 3767.01, 3767.03, 3767.05, 4301.01, 4301.25, 4301.252, 4301.32, 4301.321, 4301.322, 4301.33, 4301.331, 4301.332, 4301.34, 4301.35, 4301.351, 4301.352, 4301.353, 4301.354, 4301.36, 4301.361, 4301.362, 4301.363, 4301.364, 4301.37, 4301.39, 4301.40, 4301.401, 4301.74, 4303.021, 4303.181, 4303.202, 4303.26, 4303.261, 4303.29, 4303.292, and 4305.14 be amended and sections 4301.281, 4301.323, 4301.324, 4301.333, 4301.334, 4301.355, 4301.356, 4301.365, 4301.366, and 4301.404 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:
Sec. 119.12.  Any party adversely affected by any order of an agency issued pursuant to an adjudication denying an applicant admission to an examination, or denying the issuance or renewal of a license or registration of a licensee, or revoking or suspending a license, or allowing the payment of a forfeiture under section 4301.252 of the Revised Code, may appeal from the order of the agency to the court of common pleas of the county in which the place of business of the licensee is located or the county in which the licensee is a resident, provided except that appeals from decisions of the liquor control commission may be to the court of common pleas of Franklin county and appeals from decisions of, the state medical board, chiropractic examining board, and board of nursing shall be to the court of common pleas of Franklin county. If any such party is not a resident of and has no place of business in this state, he the party may appeal to the court of common pleas of Franklin county.
Any party adversely affected by any order of an agency issued pursuant to any other adjudication may appeal to the court of common pleas of Franklin county, except that appeals from orders of the fire marshal issued under Chapter 3737. of the Revised Code may be to the court of common pleas of the county in which the building of the aggrieved person is located.
This section does not apply to appeals from the department of taxation.
Any party desiring to appeal shall file a notice of appeal with the agency setting forth the order appealed from and the grounds of his the party's appeal. A copy of such notice of appeal shall also be filed by the appellant with the court. Unless otherwise provided by law relating to a particular agency, such notices of appeal shall be filed within fifteen days after the mailing of the notice of the agency's order as provided in this section. For purposes of this paragraph, an order includes a determination appealed pursuant to division (C) of section 119.092 of the Revised Code.
The filing of a notice of appeal shall not automatically operate as a suspension of the order of an agency. If it appears to the court that an unusual hardship to the appellant will result from the execution of the agency's order pending determination of the appeal, the court may grant a suspension and fix its terms. If an appeal is taken from the judgment of the court and the court has previously granted a suspension of the agency's order as provided in this section, such suspension of the agency's order shall not be vacated and shall be given full force and effect until the matter is finally adjudicated. No renewal of a license or permit shall be denied by reason of such suspended order during the period of the appeal from the decision of the court of common pleas. In the case of an appeal from the state medical board or chiropractic examining board, the court may grant a suspension and fix its terms if it appears to the court that an unusual hardship to the appellant will result from the execution of the agency's order pending determination of the appeal and the health, safety, and welfare of the public will not be threatened by suspension of the order. This provision shall not be construed to limit the factors the court may consider in determining whether to suspend an order of any other agency pending determination of an appeal.
The final order of adjudication may apply to any renewal of a license or permit which has been granted during the period of the appeal.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, any order issued by a court of common pleas or a court of appeals suspending the effect of an order of the liquor control commission issued pursuant to Chapter 4301. or 4303. Of the Revised Code that suspends or, revokes, or cancels a permit issued under Chapter 4303. of the Revised Code, or that allows the payment of a forfeiture under section 4301.252 of the Revised Code, shall terminate not more than fifteen six months after the date of the filing of a notice of appeal in the record of the liquor control commission with the clerk of the court of common pleas, even if the matter has not been finally adjudicated within that time and shall not be extended. The court of common pleas, or the court of appeals on appeal, shall render a judgment in that matter within six months after the date of the filing of the record of the liquor control commission with the clerk of the court of common pleas. A court of appeals shall not issue an order suspending the effect of an order of the liquor control commission that extends beyond six months after the date on which the record of the liquor control commission is filed with a court of common pleas. The court of appeals shall not grant an extension of time for filing the record of the liquor control commission with the court.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, any order issued by a court of common pleas suspending the effect of an order of the state medical board or chiropractic examining board that limits, revokes, suspends, places on probation, or refuses to register or reinstate a certificate issued by the board or reprimands the holder of such a certificate shall terminate not more than fifteen months after the date of the filing of a notice of appeal in the court of common pleas, or upon the rendering of a final decision or order in the appeal by the court of common pleas, whichever occurs first.
Within thirty days after receipt of a notice of appeal from an order in any case in which a hearing is required by sections 119.01 to 119.13 of the Revised Code, the agency shall prepare and certify to the court a complete record of the proceedings in the case. Failure of the agency to comply within the time allowed, upon motion, shall cause the court to enter a finding in favor of the party adversely affected. Additional time, however, may be granted by the court, not to exceed thirty days, when it is shown that the agency has made substantial effort to comply. Such record shall be prepared and transcribed and the expense of it shall be taxed as a part of the costs on the appeal. The appellant shall provide security for costs satisfactory to the court of common pleas. Upon demand by any interested party, the agency shall furnish at the cost of the party requesting it a copy of the stenographic report of testimony offered and evidence submitted at any hearing and a copy of the complete record.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, any party desiring to appeal an order or decision of the state personnel board of review shall, at the time of filing a notice of appeal with the board, provide a security deposit in an amount and manner prescribed in rules that the board shall adopt in accordance with this chapter. In addition, the board is not required to prepare or transcribe the record of any of its proceedings unless the appellant has provided the deposit described above. The failure of the board to prepare or transcribe a record for an appellant who has not provided a security deposit shall not cause a court to enter a finding adverse to the board.
Unless otherwise provided by law, in the hearing of the appeal, the court is confined to the record as certified to it by the agency. Unless otherwise provided by law, the court may grant a request for the admission of additional evidence when satisfied that such additional evidence is newly discovered and could not with reasonable diligence have been ascertained prior to the hearing before the agency.
The court shall conduct a hearing on such appeal and shall give preference to all proceedings under sections 119.01 to 119.13 of the Revised Code, over all other civil cases, irrespective of the position of the proceedings on the calendar of the court. An appeal from an order of the state medical board issued pursuant to division (D) of section 4731.22 of the Revised Code or, the chiropractic examining board issued pursuant to section 4734.101 of the Revised Code, or the liquor control commission issued pursuant to Chapter 4301. or 4303. Of the Revised Code shall be set down for hearing at the earliest possible time and takes precedence over all other actions. The hearing in the court of common pleas shall proceed as in the trial of a civil action, and the court shall determine the rights of the parties in accordance with the laws applicable to such action. At such hearing, counsel may be heard on oral argument, briefs may be submitted, and evidence introduced if the court has granted a request for the presentation of additional evidence.
The court may affirm the order of the agency complained of in the appeal if it finds, upon consideration of the entire record and such additional evidence as the court has admitted, that the order is supported by reliable, probative, and substantial evidence and is in accordance with law. In the absence of such a finding, it may reverse, vacate, or modify the order or make such other ruling as is supported by reliable, probative, and substantial evidence and is in accordance with law. The court shall award compensation for fees in accordance with section 2335.39 of the Revised Code to a prevailing party, other than an agency, in an appeal filed pursuant to this section.
The judgment of the court shall be final and conclusive unless reversed, vacated, or modified on appeal. Such appeals may be taken either by the party or the agency, shall proceed as in the case of appeals in civil actions, and shall be pursuant to the Rules of Appellate Procedure and, to the extent not in conflict with those rules, Chapter 2505. of the Revised Code. Such appeal by the agency shall be taken on questions of law relating to the constitutionality, construction, or interpretation of statutes and rules of the agency, and in such appeal the court may also review and determine the correctness of the judgment of the court of common pleas that the order of the agency is not supported by any reliable, probative, and substantial evidence in the entire record.
The court shall certify its judgment to such agency or take such other action necessary to give its judgment effect.
Sec. 2933.41.  (A)(1) Any property, other than contraband that is subject to the provisions of section 2913.34 or 2933.43 of the Revised Code, other than property that is subject to section 3719.141 of the Revised Code, other than property that is forfeited under sections 2923.44 to 2923.47 or 2925.41 to 2925.45 of the Revised Code, other than a vehicle that is criminally forfeited under an order issued under section 4503.233 or 4503.234 of the Revised Code and that is to be disposed of under section 4503.234 of the Revised Code, other than property that has been lawfully seized under sections 2933.71 to 2933.75 of the Revised Code in relation to a medicaid fraud offense, and other than property that has been lawfully seized in relation to a violation of section 2923.32 of the Revised Code, that has been lost, abandoned, stolen, seized pursuant to a search warrant, or otherwise lawfully seized or forfeited, and that is in the custody of a law enforcement agency shall be kept safely pending the time it no longer is needed as evidence and shall be disposed of pursuant to this section. Each law enforcement agency that has custody of any property that is subject to this section shall adopt a written internal control policy that addresses the keeping of detailed records as to the amount of property taken in by the agency, that addresses the agency's disposition of the property under this section, that provides for the keeping of detailed records of the disposition of the property, and that provides for the keeping of detailed financial records of the amount and disposition of any proceeds of a sale of the property under division (D)(8) of this section and of the general types of expenditures made out of the proceeds retained by the agency and the specific amount expended on each general type of expenditure. The policy shall not provide for or permit the identification of any specific expenditure that is made in an ongoing investigation. The policy is a public record open for inspection under section 149.43 of the Revised Code.
(2)(a) Every law enforcement agency that has any lost, abandoned, stolen, seized, or forfeited property as described in division (A)(1) of this section in its custody shall comply with its written internal control policy adopted under that division relative to the property. Each agency that has any property of that nature in its custody, except for property to be disposed of under division (D)(4) of this section, shall maintain an accurate record, in accordance with its written internal control policy, of each item of the property. The record shall include the date on which each item of property came into the agency's custody, the manner in which it was disposed of, the date of its disposition, the name of the person who received the property if it was not destroyed, and all other information required by the agency's written internal control policy; however, the record shall not identify or enable the identification of the individual officer who seized any item of property. The record of any property that no longer is needed as evidence, and all financial records of the amount and disposition of any proceeds of a sale under division (D)(8) of this section and of the general types of expenditures made out of the proceeds retained by the agency and the specific amount of each general type of expenditure, shall be open to public inspection during the agency's regular business hours.
Each law enforcement agency that, during any calendar year, has any seized or forfeited property as described in division (A)(1) of this section in its custody shall prepare a report covering the calendar year that cumulates all of the information contained in all of the records kept by the agency pursuant to this division for that calendar year and shall send a copy of the cumulative report, no later than the first day of March in the calendar year following the calendar year covered by the report, to the attorney general. Each report received by the attorney general is a public record open for inspection under section 149.43 of the Revised Code.
(b) Each law enforcement agency that receives in any calendar year any proceeds of a sale under division (D)(8) of this section shall prepare a report covering the calendar year that cumulates all of the information contained in all of the public financial records kept by the agency pursuant to division (D)(2)(a) of this section for that calendar year and shall send a copy of the cumulative report, no later than the first day of March in the calendar year following the calendar year covered by the report, to the attorney general. Each report received by the attorney general is a public record open for inspection under section 149.43 of the Revised Code.
(c) Not later than the fifteenth day of April in the calendar year in which reports are sent to the attorney general under divisions (A)(2)(a) and (b) of this section, the attorney general shall send to the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives a written notification that does all of the following:
(i) Indicates that the attorney general has received from law enforcement agencies reports of the type described in division (A)(2)(a), (A)(2)(b), or both (A)(2)(a) and (b) of this section, whichever is applicable, that cover the previous calendar year and indicates that the reports were received under division (A)(2)(a), (A)(2)(b), or both (A)(2)(a) and (b) of this section, whichever is applicable;
(ii) Indicates that the reports are open for inspection under section 149.43 of the Revised Code;
(iii) Indicates that the attorney general will provide a copy of any or all of the reports to the president of the senate or the speaker of the house of representatives upon request.
(B) A law enforcement agency that has property in its possession that is required to be disposed of pursuant to this section shall make a reasonable effort to locate the persons entitled to possession of the property in its custody, to notify them of when and where it may be claimed, and to return the property to them at the earliest possible time. In the absence of evidence identifying persons entitled to possession, it is sufficient notice to advertise in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, briefly describing the nature of the property in custody and inviting persons to view and establish their right to it.
(C) A person loses any right that the person may have to the possession, or the possession and ownership, of property if any of the following applies:
(1) The property was the subject, or was used in a conspiracy or attempt to commit, or in the commission, of an offense other than a traffic offense, and the person is a conspirator, accomplice, or offender with respect to the offense.
(2) A court determines that the property should be forfeited because, in light of the nature of the property or the circumstances of the person, it is unlawful for the person to acquire or possess the property.
(D) Unclaimed or forfeited property in the custody of a law enforcement agency, other than contraband that is subject to the provisions of section 2913.34 or 2933.43 of the Revised Code, other than property forfeited under sections 2923.44 to 2923.47 or 2925.41 to 2925.45 of the Revised Code, and other than property that has been lawfully seized in relation to a violation of section 2923.32 of the Revised Code, shall be disposed of on application to and order of any court of record that has territorial jurisdiction over the political subdivision in which the law enforcement agency has jurisdiction to engage in law enforcement activities, as follows:
(1) Drugs shall be disposed of pursuant to section 3719.11 of the Revised Code or placed in the custody of the secretary of the treasury of the United States for disposal or use for medical or scientific purposes under applicable federal law.
(2) Firearms and dangerous ordnance suitable for police work may be given to a law enforcement agency for that purpose. Firearms suitable for sporting use or as museum pieces or collectors' items may be sold at public auction pursuant to division (D)(8) of this section. Other firearms and dangerous ordnance shall be destroyed by the agency or shall be sent to the bureau of criminal identification and investigation for destruction by the bureau.
(3) Obscene materials shall be destroyed.
(4) Beer, intoxicating liquor, or alcohol seized from a person who is not the holder of a permit issued under Chapters 4301. and 4303. of the Revised Code or is an offender and forfeited to the state under section 4301.45 or 4301.53 of the Revised Code either shall be sold by the division of liquor control, if the division determines that the beer, intoxicating liquor, or alcohol is fit for sale, or shall be placed in the custody of the investigations unit in the department of public safety and be used for training relating to law enforcement activities. The department, with the assistance of the division of liquor, shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. Of the Revised Code to provide for the distribution of such beer, intoxicating liquor, or alcohol to state or local law enforcement agencies upon their request. If any tax imposed under Title XLIII of the Revised Code has not been paid in relation to the beer, intoxicating liquor, or alcohol, the proceeds of the sale shall first be used to pay the tax. All other money collected under division (D)(4) of this section shall be paid into the state treasury. Any such beer, intoxicating liquor, or alcohol that the division determines to be unfit for sale shall be destroyed.
(5) Money received by an inmate of a correctional institution from an unauthorized source or in an unauthorized manner shall be returned to the sender, if known, or deposited in the inmates' industrial and entertainment fund if the sender is not known.
(6) Vehicles and vehicle parts forfeited under sections 4549.61 to 4549.63 of the Revised Code may be given to a law enforcement agency for use in the performance of its duties. Those parts may be incorporated into any other official vehicle. Parts that do not bear vehicle identification numbers or derivatives of them may be sold or disposed of as provided by rules of the director of public safety. Parts from which a vehicle identification number or derivative of it has been removed, defaced, covered, altered, or destroyed and that are not suitable for police work or incorporation into an official vehicle shall be destroyed and sold as junk or scrap.
(7)(a) Computers, computer networks, computer systems, and computer software suitable for police work may be given to a law enforcement agency for that purpose. Other computers, computer networks, computer systems, and computer software shall be disposed of pursuant to division (D)(8) of this section.
(b) As used in this section, "computers," "computer networks," "computer systems," and "computer software" have the same meanings as in section 2913.01 of the Revised Code.
(8) Other unclaimed or forfeited property, with the approval of the court, may be used by the law enforcement agency that has possession of it. If the other unclaimed or forfeited property is not used by the law enforcement agency, it may be sold, without appraisal, at a public auction to the highest bidder for cash, or, in the case of other unclaimed or forfeited moneys, disposed of in another manner that the court considers proper in the circumstances.
(E)(1)(a) If the property was in the possession of the law enforcement agency in relation to a delinquent child proceeding in a juvenile court, ten per cent of the proceeds from property disposed of pursuant to this section shall be applied to one or more alcohol and drug addiction treatment programs that are certified by the department of alcohol and drug addiction services under section 3793.06 of the Revised Code and that are specified by the court in its order issued under division (D) of this section. A juvenile court shall not specify an alcohol or drug addiction treatment program in the order unless the program is a certified alcohol and drug addiction treatment program and, except as provided in division (E)(1)(a) of this section, unless the program is located in the county in which the court that issues the orders is located or in a contiguous county. If no certified alcohol and drug addiction treatment program is located in any of those counties, the juvenile court may specify in the order a certified alcohol and drug addiction treatment program located anywhere within this state. The remaining ninety per cent of the proceeds shall be applied as provided in divisions (E)(1)(b) of this section.
If the property was in the possession of the law enforcement agency other than in relation to a delinquent child proceeding in a juvenile court, all of the proceeds from property disposed of pursuant to this section shall be applied as provided in division (E)(1)(b) of this section.
(b) Except as provided in divisions (D)(4), (5), and (E)(2) of this section and after compliance with division (E)(1)(a) of this section when that division is applicable, the proceeds from property disposed of pursuant to this section shall be placed in the general fund of the state, the county, the township, or the municipal corporation, of which the law enforcement agency involved is an agency.
(2) Each board of county commissioners that recognizes a citizens' reward program as provided in section 9.92 of the Revised Code shall notify each law enforcement agency of that county and each law enforcement agency of a township or municipal corporation wholly located in that county of the official recognition of the citizens' reward program by filing a copy of its resolution conferring that recognition with each of those law enforcement agencies. When the board of county commissioners of a county recognizes a citizens' reward program and the county includes a part, but not all, of the territory of a municipal corporation, the board shall so notify the law enforcement agency of that municipal corporation of the official recognition of the citizens' reward program only if the county contains the highest percentage of the municipal corporation's population. Upon receipt of a notice of that nature, each law enforcement agency shall pay twenty-five per cent of the proceeds from each sale of property disposed of pursuant to this section to the citizens' reward program for use exclusively for the payment of rewards. No part of those funds may be used to pay for the administrative expenses or any other expenses associated with a citizens' reward program. If a citizens' reward program that operates in more than one county or in another state or states in addition to this state receives funds pursuant to this section, the funds shall be used to pay rewards only for tips and information to law enforcement agencies concerning felonies, offenses of violence, or misdemeanors that have been committed in the county from which the funds were received.
(F) This section does not apply to the collection, storage, or disposal of abandoned junk motor vehicles. This section shall not be construed to rescind or restrict the authority of a municipal law enforcement agency to keep and dispose of lost, abandoned, stolen, seized, or forfeited property under an ordinance of the municipal corporation, provided that, when a municipal corporation that has received notice as provided in division (E)(2) of this section disposes of property under an ordinance of that nature, it shall pay twenty-five per cent of the proceeds from any sale or auction to the citizens' reward program as provided under that division.
(G) The receipt of funds by a citizens' reward program pursuant to division (E) of this section does not make it a governmental unit for purposes of section 149.43 of the Revised Code and does not subject it to the disclosure provisions of that section.
(H) For purposes of this section, "law enforcement agency" includes correctional institutions. As used in this section, "citizens' reward program" has the same meaning as in section 9.92 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 3767.01.  As used in all sections of the Revised Code relating to nuisances:
(A) "Place" includes any building, erection, or place or any separate part or portion thereof or the ground itself;
(B) "Person" includes any individual, corporation, association, partnership, trustee, lessee, agent, or assignee;
(C) "Nuisance" means that any of the following:
(1) That which is defined and declared by statutes to be such and also means any a nuisance;
(2) Any place in or upon which lewdness, assignation, or prostitution is conducted, permitted, continued, or exists, or any place, in or upon which lewd, indecent, lascivious, or obscene films or plate negatives, film or plate positives, films designed to be projected on a screen for exhibition films, or glass slides either in negative or positive form designed for exhibition by projection on a screen, are photographed, manufactured, developed, screened, exhibited, or otherwise prepared or shown, and the personal property and contents used in conducting and maintaining any such place for any such purpose. This chapter shall not affect any newspaper, magazine, or other publication entered as second class matter by the post-office department.
(3) Any room, house, building, boat, vehicle, structure, or place where beer or intoxicating liquor is manufactured, sold, bartered, possessed, or kept in violation of law and all property kept and used in maintaining the same, and all property designed for the unlawful manufacture of beer or intoxicating liquor and beer or intoxicating liquor contained in the room, house, building, boat, structure, or place, or the operation of such a room, house, building, boat, structure, or place as described in division (C)(3) of this section where the operation of that place substantially interferes with public decency, sobriety, peace, and good order. "Violation of law" includes, but is not limited to, sales to any person under the legal drinking age as prohibited in division (A) of section 4301.22 or division (A) of section 4301.69 of the Revised Code and any violation of section 2913.46 or 2925.03 of the Revised Code.
(4) A place where beer or intoxicating liquor is sold, furnished, or given away in violation of section 4399.09 of the Revised Code on a second or subsequent offense.
Sec. 3767.03.  Whenever a nuisance exists, the attorney general; the village solicitor, city director of law, or other similar chief legal officer of the municipal corporation in which the nuisance exists; the prosecuting attorney of the county in which the nuisance exists; the law director of a township that has adopted the limited self-government form of government under Chapter 504. of the Revised Code; or any person who is a citizen of the country in which the nuisance exists may bring an action in equity in the name of the state, upon the relation of the attorney general; the village solicitor, city director of law, or other similar chief legal officer of the municipal corporation; the prosecuting attorney; the township law director; or the person, to abate the nuisance and to perpetually enjoin the person maintaining the nuisance from further maintaining it. Whenever a nuisance exists at a liquor permit premises, the superintendent of the division of liquor control or the liquor enforcement division of the department of public safety, through the office of the attorney general, may also bring such an action. If an action is instituted under this section by a person other than the prosecuting attorney; the village solicitor, city director of law, or other similar chief legal officer of the municipal corporation; the superintendent of liquor control or the liquor enforcement division; the attorney general; or the township law director, the complainant shall execute a bond in the sum of not less than five hundred dollars, to the defendant, with good and sufficient surety to be approved by the court or clerk of the court, to secure to the defendant any damages the defendant may sustain and the reasonable attorney's fees the defendant may incur in defending the action if the action is wrongfully brought, not prosecuted to final judgment, is dismissed, or is not maintained, or if it is finally decided that an injunction should not have been granted. If it is finally decided that an injunction should not have been granted or if the action was wrongfully brought, not prosecuted to final judgment, dismissed, or not maintained, the defendant shall have recourse against the bond for all damages suffered, including damages to the defendant's property, person, or character, and for the reasonable attorney's fees incurred by the defendant in defending the action.
Any agency, officer, or other person bringing an action under this section against the holder of a liquor permit issued under Chapter 4303. Of the Revised Code shall notify the division of liquor control, the liquor control commission, and the liquor enforcement division of the department of public safety regarding the action at the time of bringing the action.
Sec. 3767.05.  (A) The civil action provided for in section 3767.03 of the Revised Code shall be set down for trial at the earliest possible time and shall have precedence over all other cases except those involving crimes, election contests, or injunctions regardless of the position of the proceedings on the calendar of the court. In the civil action, evidence of the general reputation of the place where the nuisance is alleged to exist or an admission or finding of guilt of any person under the criminal laws against prostitution, lewdness, assignation, or other prohibited conduct at the place is admissible for the purpose of proving the existence of the nuisance and is prima-facie evidence of the nuisance and of knowledge of and of acquiescence and participation in the nuisance on the part of the person charged with maintaining it.
(B) If the complaint for the permanent injunction is filed by a person who is a citizen of the county, it shall not be dismissed unless the complainant and his the complainant's attorney submit a sworn statement setting forth the reasons why the civil action should be dismissed and the dismissal is approved by the prosecuting attorney in writing or in open court. If the person who files the complaint for the permanent injuction is a citizen of the county, if that person refuses or otherwise fails to prosecute the complaint to judgment, and if the civil action is not dismissed pursuant to this division, then, with the approval of the court, the attorney general, the prosecuting attorney of the county in which the nuisance exists, or the village solicitor, city director of law, or other similar chief legal officer of the municipal corporation in which the nuisance exists, may be substituted for the complainant and prosecute the civil action to judgment.
(C) If the civil action is commenced by a person who is a citizen of the county where the nuisance is alleged to exist and the court finds that there were no reasonable grounds or cause for the civil action, the costs may be taxed to that person.
(D) If the existence of the nuisance is established upon the trial of the civil action, a judgment shall be entered that perpetually enjoins the defendant and any other person from further maintaining the nuisance at the place complained of and the defendant from maintaining the nuisance elsewhere.
(E) If the court finds that a nuisance described in division (C)(3) or (4) of section 3767.01 of the Revised Code exists, the court shall order the nuisance to be abated, and, in entering judgment for nuisance, the court shall do all of the following:
(1) Specify that judgment is entered pursuant to Division (E) of this section;
(2) Order that no beer or intoxicating liquor may be manufactured, sold, bartered, possessed, kept, or stored in the room, house, building, structure, place, boat, or vehicle or any part thereof. The court need not find that the property was being unlawfully used at the time of the hearing on the matter if the court finds there existed a nuisance as described in division (C)(3) or (4) of section 3767.01 of the Revised Code.
(3) Order that the room, house, building, boat, vehicle, structure, or place not be occupied or used for one year after the judgment is rendered. The court may permit the premises to be occupied by a person other than the defendant in the nuisance action, or an agent of, or entity owned in whole or part by, the defendant, if the person, lessee, tenant, or occupant of the location posts a bond with sufficient surety, to be approved by the court issuing the order, in the sum of not less than one thousand nor more than five thousand dollars, payable to the state of Ohio, on the condition that no beer or intoxicating liquor thereafter shall be manufactured, sold, bartered, possessed, kept, stored, transported, or otherwise disposed of on the premises in violation of law, and the person agrees to pay all fines, costs, and damages that may be assessed for a violation. A reasonable sum shall be allowed an officer by the issuing court for the cost of closing and keeping closed the premises that is the subject of the nuisance action.
(4) Send notice of the judgment entered to the division of liquor control, the liquor control commission, and the liquor enforcement division of the department of public safety.
(F) A defendant found in violation of division (C)(3) or (4) of section 3767.01 of the Revised Code also is subject to liability and penalties under sections 4301.74 and 4399.09 of the Revised Code.
(G) If a court enters judgment pursuant to division (D) or (E) of this section finding that a nuisance exists at a liquor permit premises or as a result of the operation of a liquor permit premises, except in the case of a nuisance found as a result of a violation of a local zoning ordinance or resolution, the statement required under division (A) of section 4301.331 of the Revised Code shall be filed with the board of elections in the county in which the nuisance exists, not later than four p.m. of the seventy-fifth day before the day of the next general or primary election.
Sec. 4301.01.  (A) As used in the Revised Code:
(1) "Intoxicating liquor" and "liquor" include all liquids and compounds, other than beer as defined in division (B)(2) of this section, containing one-half of one per cent or more of alcohol by volume which are fit to use for beverage purposes, from whatever source and by whatever process produced, by whatever name called, and whether the same are medicated, proprietary, or patented. The phrase includes wine, as defined in division (B)(3) of this section even if it contains less than four per cent of alcohol by volume, mixed beverages, as defined in division (B)(4) of this section even if they contain less than four per cent of alcohol by volume, cider, as defined in division (B)(23)(21) of this section, alcohol, and all solids and confections which contain any alcohol.
(2) Except as used in sections 4301.01 to 4301.20, 4301.22 to 4301.52, 4301.56, 4301.70, 4301.72, and 4303.01 to 4303.36 of the Revised Code, "sale" and "sell" include exchange, barter, gift, offer for sale, sale, distribution and delivery of any kind, and the transfer of title or possession of beer and intoxicating liquor either by constructive or actual delivery by any means or devices whatever, including the sale of beer or intoxicating liquor by means of a controlled access alcohol and beverage cabinet pursuant to section 4301.21 of the Revised Code. "Sale" and "sell" do not include the mere solicitation of orders for beer or intoxicating liquor from the holders of permits issued by the division of liquor control authorizing the sale of the beer or intoxicating liquor, but no solicitor shall solicit any such orders until the solicitor has been registered with the division pursuant to section 4303.25 of the Revised Code.
(3) "Vehicle" includes all means of transportation by land, by water, or by air, and everything made use of in any way for such transportation.
(B) As used in sections 4301.01 to 4301.74 of the Revised Code:
(1) "Alcohol" means ethyl alcohol, whether rectified or diluted with water or not, whatever its origin may be, and includes synthetic ethyl alcohol. "Alcohol" does not include denatured alcohol and wood alcohol.
(2) "Beer," "malt liquor," or "malt beverages" includes all brewed or fermented malt products containing one-half of one per cent or more of alcohol by volume but not more than six per cent of alcohol by weight.
(3) "Wine" includes all liquids fit to use for beverage purposes containing not less than one-half of one per cent of alcohol by volume and not more than twenty-one per cent of alcohol by volume, which is made from the fermented juices of grapes, fruits, or other agricultural products, except that as used in sections 4301.13, 4301.421, 4301.422, 4301.432, and 4301.44 of the Revised Code, and, for purposes of determining the rate of the tax that applies, division (B) of section 4301.43 of the Revised Code, "wine" does not include cider.
(4) "Mixed beverages" such as bottled and prepared cordials, cocktails, and highballs are products obtained by mixing any type of whiskey, neutral spirits, brandy, gin, or other distilled spirits with, or over, carbonated or plain water, pure juices from flowers and plants, and other flavoring materials. The completed product shall contain not less than one-half of one per cent of alcohol by volume and not more than twenty-one per cent of alcohol by volume.
(5) "Spirituous liquor" includes all intoxicating liquors containing more than twenty-one per cent of alcohol by volume.
(6) "Sealed container" means any container having a capacity of not more than one hundred twenty-eight fluid ounces, the opening of which is closed to prevent the entrance of air.
(7) "Person" includes firms and corporations.
(8) "Manufacture" includes all processes by which beer or intoxicating liquor is produced, whether by distillation, rectifying, fortifying, blending, fermentation, brewing, or in any other manner.
(9) "Manufacturer" means any person engaged in the business of manufacturing beer or intoxicating liquor.
(10) "Wholesale distributor" and "distributor" means a person engaged in the business of selling to retail dealers for purposes of resale.
(11) "Hotel" has the meaning set forth in section 3731.01 of the Revised Code, subject to the exceptions mentioned in section 3731.03 of the Revised Code.
(12) "Restaurant" means a place located in a permanent building provided with space and accommodations wherein, in consideration of the payment of money, hot meals are habitually prepared, sold, and served at noon and evening, as the principal business of the place. "Restaurant" does not include pharmacies, confectionery stores, lunch stands, night clubs, and filling stations.
(13) "Club" means a corporation or association of individuals organized in good faith for social, recreational, benevolent, charitable, fraternal, political, patriotic, or athletic purposes, which is the owner, lessor, or occupant of a permanent building or part thereof operated solely for those purposes, membership in which entails the prepayment of regular dues, and includes the place so operated.
(14) "Night club" means a place operated for profit, where food is served for consumption on the premises and one or more forms of amusement are provided or permitted for a consideration which may be in the form of a cover charge or may be included in the price of the food and beverages, or both, purchased by the patrons thereof.
(15) "At retail" means for use or consumption by the purchaser and not for resale.
(16) "Pharmacy" means an establishment as defined in section 4729.01 of the Revised Code, which is under the management or control of a licensed pharmacist in accordance with section 4729.27 of the Revised Code.
(17) "Enclosed shopping center" means a group of retail sales and service business establishments that face into an enclosed mall, share common ingress, egress, and parking facilities, and are situated on a tract of land that contains an area of not less than five hundred thousand square feet. "Enclosed shopping center" also includes not more than one business establishment that is located within a free-standing building on such a tract of land, so long as the sale of beer and intoxicating liquor on the tract of land was approved in an election held under former section 4301.353 of the Revised Code.
(18) "Controlled access alcohol and beverage cabinet" means a closed container, either refrigerated, in whole or in part, or nonrefrigerated, access to the interior of which is restricted by means of a device which requires the use of a key, magnetic card, or similar device and from which beer, intoxicating liquor, other beverages, or food may be sold.
(19) "Residence district" means two or more contiguous election precincts located within the same county and also located within the same municipal corporation or within the unincorporated area of the same township, as described by a petition authorized by section 4301.33, 4301.332, 4303.29, or 4305.14 of the Revised Code "Community facility" means any community facility, including, but not limited to, a not-for-profit facility that is available for public use, a convention, sports, or entertainment facility or any combination of these, that is owned or operated in whole or in part by the state, a state agency, or a political subdivision of the state, that is leased from, or located on property leased from the state, a state agency, or a political subdivision of the state, or that is used by or accessible to the general public.
(20) "Low-alcohol beverage" means any brewed or fermented malt product, or any product made from the fermented juices of grapes, fruits, or other agricultural products, that contains either no alcohol or less than one-half of one per cent of alcohol by volume. The beverages described in division (B)(20) of this section do not include a soft drink such as root beer, birch beer, or ginger beer.
(21) "Cider" means all liquids fit to use for beverage purposes that contain one-half of one per cent of alcohol by volume, but not more than six per cent of alcohol by weight that are made through the normal alcoholic fermentation of the juice of sound, ripe apples, including, without limitation, flavored, sparkling, or carbonated cider and cider made from pure condensed apple must.
Sec. 4301.25.  (A) The liquor control commission may suspend or revoke any permit issued pursuant to Chapters 4301. and 4303. of the Revised Code for the violation of any of the applicable restrictions of such chapters or of any lawful rule of the commission or for other sufficient cause, and for the following causes:
(1) Conviction of the holder or the holder's agent or employee for violating a section of Chapters 4301. and 4303. of the Revised Code or for a felony;
(2) The entry of a judgment pursuant to division (D) or (E) of section 3767.05 Of the Revised Code against a permit holder or the holder's agent or employee finding the existence of a nuisance at a liquor permit premises or finding the existence of a nuisance as a result of the operation of a liquor permit premises;
(3) Making any false material statement in an application for a permit;
(3)(4) Assigning, transferring, or pledging a permit contrary to the rules of the commission;
(4)(5) Selling or promising to sell beer or intoxicating liquor to a wholesale or retail dealer who is not the holder of a proper permit at the time of the sale or promise;
(5)(6) Failure of the holder of a permit to pay an excise tax together with any penalties imposed by the law relating thereto and for violation of any rule of the department of taxation in pursuance thereof.
(B) The liquor control commission shall revoke a permit issued pursuant to a provision of Chapter 4301. or 4303. of the Revised Code upon the conviction of the holder of the permit of a violation of division (C)(1) of section 2913.46 of the Revised Code.
(C) When the commission considers the length of a suspension of a permit, it may consider the volume of the business of the permit holder, so that the length of the suspension is in proportion to the seriousness of the offense and the permit holder's business in order that the suspension serve as a penalty and a deterrent. Evidence as to the volume of business of the permit holder may be offered by the permit holder or subpoenaed by the commission.
Sec. 4301.252.  (A)(1) Except as provided in divisions (B) and (C) of this section, when the liquor control commission determines that the permit of any permit holder is to be suspended under Title XLIII of the Revised Code or any rule of the commission, the commission may issue an order allowing a permit holder to elect to pay a forfeiture for each day of the suspension in accordance with division (A)(2) of this section, rather than to suspend operations under the permit holder's permit issued for the premises at which the violation occurred.
(2)(a) If the permit holder has not violated, at the premises for which the permit holder's permit was issued, any provision of Title XLIII of the Revised Code or rule of the commission during the preceding two years, the amount of the forfeiture for each day for the suspension shall be from one hundred to two hundred dollars.
(b) If the permit holder has violated, at the premises for which the permit holder's permit was issued, any provision of Title XLIII of the Revised Code or rule of the commission for which the permit holder has been disciplined by the commission not more than one other time during the preceding two years, the amount of the forfeiture for each day of the suspension shall be from two hundred to four hundred dollars.
(c) Except as provided under division (A)(2)(e) of this section, if the permit holder has subsequently violated, at the premises for which the permit holder's permit was issued, any provision of Title XLIII of the Revised Code or rule of the commission for which the permit holder has been disciplined by the commission more than once, but not more than twice, during the preceding two years, the commission shall establish the amount of the forfeiture for each day of the suspension, but the amount shall be not less than three hundred dollars for each day of suspension.
(d) If the permit holder has subsequently violated, at the premises for which the permit holder's permit was issued, any provision of Title XLIII of the Revised Code or rule of the commission for which the permit holder has been disciplined by the commission more than twice during the preceding two years, the commission may suspend or revoke the permit issued for the premises at which the violation occurred, but shall not allow the permit holder to pay a forfeiture instead of suspending or revoking the permit holder's permit operations.
(e) If the permit holder has committed, at the premises for which the permit holder's permit was issued, a gambling offense as defined in section 2915.01, a drug abuse offense as defined in section 2925.01, an offense described in section 2907.07, 2907.21, 2907.22, 2907.23, 2907.24, 2907.25, division (A) or (B) of section 4301.22, or section 4301.69 of the Revised Code or a municipal ordinance substantially equivalent to any offense defined or described in a section listed in division (A)(2)(e) of this section for which the permit holder has been disciplined by the commission more than once but not more than twice during the preceding two years, the commission may suspend or revoke the permit issued for the premises at which the violation occurred, but shall not allow the permit holder to pay a forfeiture instead of suspending or revoking the permit holder's permit operations. A person does not have to plead guilty to or be convicted of an offense defined or described in a section listed in division (A)(2)(e) of this section in order for this division to apply.
(3) When the commission issues an order allowing a permit holder the option of paying a forfeiture rather than suspending operations under the permit holder's permit issued for the premises at which the violation occurred, the order shall notify the permit holder of the option of paying a forfeiture. The order shall state the number of days for which the permit may be suspended, and that the permit holder has twenty-one days after the date on which the order was sent to pay the full amount of the forfeiture by certified check and that if the permit holder does not do so, the permit holder's permit issued for the premises at which the violation occurred shall be suspended for the period stated in the order. If the permit holder fails to pay the full amount of the forfeiture by certified check within twenty-one days after the date on which the order was sent, the commission shall issue an order suspending the permit holder's permit issued for the premises at which the violation occurred for the period stated in the order allowing payment of a forfeiture. The suspension shall be effective on the twenty-eighth day after the date on which the order allowing the payment of a forfeiture was sent. Even the a permit holder who pays a forfeiture may file an appeal under section 119.12 of the Revised Code. A permit holder shall be considered to have paid a forfeiture when the permit holder's certified check is received by the commission in Columbus. Upon receipt of a permit holder's certified check under this division, the commission shall promptly notify the division of liquor control of its receipt.
(B) No permit holder shall be permitted to pay a forfeiture instead of having the permit holder's permit issued for the premises at which the violation occurred suspended if the suspension is ordered for the reasons stated in division (A)(5)(6) of section 4301.25 of the Revised Code.
(C) When the evidence and the nature of any violation of Title XLIII of the Revised Code show that continued operation of the permit premises presents a clear and present danger to public health and safety, or if the commission finds, upon reliable, probative, and substantial evidence, that the statutory elements of a felony committed in connection with the operation of the permit premises are present in the action for which the permit holder is being disciplined, the commission may suspend the permit issued for the premises at which the violation occurred and shall not allow the permit holder to pay a forfeiture instead of suspending the permit holder's permit operations.
Sec. 4301.281. A liquor permit holder who is the subject of a local option election held pursuant to section 4301.352 of the Revised Code that results in a majority vote of "no" by the electors of the election precinct, and who has appealed the judgment that is the basis for the election held pursuant to that section, may seek an injunction in a separate civil action to prevent the division of liquor control from canceling, revoking, or suspending the liquor permit that was the subject of the election. The civil action seeking an injunction shall be brought in the county in which the liquor permit premises is located. If the injunction is granted, the injunction shall expire no later than one hundred eighty days after the date the injunction is journalized as an order and entry of the court with the clerk of courts and shall not be extended by the issuing court. The civil action seeking an injunction may be consolidated with a pending nuisance action, where appropriate, that was brought pursuant to section 3767.03 of the Revised Code in which the affected liquor permit holder is a defendant or an appellant. If the action seeking an injunction is consolidated with the nuisance action, the injunction shall operate only with respect to the parties to, and the subject matter of, the cause seeking the injunction.
Notwithstanding section 4301.31 of the Revised Code, nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent a municipal or county court, a court of common pleas, a court of appeals, or the supreme court from determining the validity of an election held pursuant to section 4301.352 of the Revised Code as a result of a judgment issued in an action brought pursuant to section 3767.03 of the Revised Code. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit a court from issuing an injunction or order in regard to a liquor permit that is the subject of such an election.
Sec. 4301.32.  The privilege of local option as to the sale of intoxicating liquors is hereby conferred upon the electors of an election precinct or residence district named by the petition authorized by section 4301.33 of the Revised Code.
Upon the request of an elector, a board of elections of a county that encompasses an election precinct or residence district shall furnish to the elector a copy of the instructions prepared by the secretary of state under division (P) of section 3501.05 of the Revised Code and, within fifteen days after the request, with a certificate indicating the number of valid signatures that will be required upon a petition to hold a special election in that precinct or residence district on a question specified in section 4301.35 or 4301.351 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 4301.321.  The electors of an election precinct may exercise the privilege of local option over the sale of beer or intoxicating liquor by the holder of a class C or D permit at a particular premises situated within the precinct if, within one year prior to the local option election, the permit holder or another person was convicted of or pleaded guilty to committing any combination of three or more violations of section 2907.09, 2907.22, 2907.23, 2907.24, 2915.02, 2915.03, division (A) or (B) of section 4301.22, or division (A) of section 4301.69 premises was declared a nuisance, as defined in division (C) of section 3767.01 of the Revised Code on the permit premises and a judgment was entered pursuant to division (D) or (E) of section 3767.05 Of the Revised Code in a civil action brought under section 3767.03 or 3767.04 Of the Revised Code. The privilege conferred by this section is in addition to and shall not be construed to conflict with the privilege conferred on the electors of the precincts or districts specified in section 4301.32, 4301.322, 4301.323, or 4305.14 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 4301.322.  The electors of an election precinct or residence district may exercise the privilege of local option under sections 4301.353 and 4301.354 of the Revised Code on the sale of beer, the sale of wine and mixed beverages, or the sale of spirituous liquor, on Sunday or on other days of the week, in a portion of the precinct or residence district in which the status of such sales as allowed or prohibited is inconsistent with the status of such sales in the remainder of the precinct or residence district because of a change in precinct boundaries by the board of elections or an annexation of territory to a municipal corporation. The privilege conferred by this section is in addition to the privilege conferred on the electors of an election precinct or residence district as specified in section 4301.32, 4301.321, 4303.29, or 4305.14 of the Revised Code.
If an election is held in a residence district under section 4301.353 or 4301.354 of the Revised Code, no more than one precinct in the residence district may be a precinct in which the status of sales in a portion of that precinct of the type of beer or intoxicating liquor that is the subject of the election is inconsistent with the status of such sales in the remainder of that precinct.
Sec. 4301.323. The electors of an election precinct may exercise the privilege of local option on the sale of beer and any intoxicating liquor at a particular location within the precinct if the petitioner for local option election is one of the following:
(1) An applicant for the issuance or transfer of a liquor permit at, or to, a particular location within the precinct;
(2) The holder of a liquor permit at a particular location within the precinct;
(3) A person who operates or seeks to operate a liquor agency store at a particular location within the precinct;
(4) The designated agent for such an applicant, liquor permit holder, or liquor agency store.
The privilege conferred by this section is in addition to the privilege conferred on the electors of precincts under section 4301.32, 4301.321, 4301.322, or 4305.14 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 4301.324. The electors of a municipal corporation or the unincorporated area of a township may exercise the privilege of local option on the sale of beer and any intoxicating liquor at a particular location within the municipal corporation or unincorporated area of the township if the use of the location is as a community facility. Only the electors of the municipal corporation or the unincorporated area of a township may exercise this election privilege even if the community facility is partially or wholly owned by the state of Ohio.
Sec. 4301.33.  (A) The board of elections shall provide to a petitioner circulating a petition for an election for the submission of one or more of the questions specified in divisions (A) to (C)(D) of section 4301.35 or section 4301.351 of the Revised Code, at the time he takes of taking out the petition, the names of the streets and, if appropriate, the address numbers of residences and business establishments within the precinct or residence district in which the election is sought, and a form prescribed by the secretary of state for notifying affected permit holders and liquor agency stores of the circulation of a petition for an election for the submission of one or more of the questions specified in divisions (A) to (C)(D) of section 4301.35 or section 4301.351 of the Revised Code. The petitioner shall, not less than forty-five days before the petition-filing deadline for the election, as provided in this section, file with the division of liquor control the information regarding names of streets and, if appropriate, address numbers of residences and business establishments provided by the board of elections, and specify to the division the precinct or residence district that is concerned and that would be affected by the results of the election and the filing deadline. The division shall, within a reasonable period of time and not later than fifteen days before the filing deadline, supply the petitioner with a list of the names and addresses of permit holders who and liquor agency stores, if any, that would be affected by the election. The list shall contain a heading with the following words: "Liquor permit holders who and liquor agency stores that would be affected by the question(s) set forth on petition for a local option election."
Within five days after a petitioner has received from the division the list of liquor permit holders who and liquor agency stores, if any, that would be affected by the question or questions set forth on a petition for local option election, the petitioner shall, using the form provided by the board of elections, notify by certified mail each permit holder and liquor agency store whose name appears on that list. The form for notifying affected permit holders and liquor agency stores shall require the petitioner to state the petitioner's name and street address and shall contain a statement that a petition is being circulated for an election for the submission of the question or questions specified in divisions (A) to (C)(D) of section 4301.35 or section 4301.351 of the Revised Code. The form shall require the petitioner to state the question or questions to be submitted as they appear on the petition.
The petitioner shall attach a copy of the list provided by the division to each petition paper. A part petition paper circulated at any time without the list of affected permit holders and liquor agency stores attached to it is invalid.
At the time the petitioner files the petition with the board of elections, the petitioner shall provide to the board the list supplied by the division and an affidavit certifying that the petitioner notified all affected permit holders and liquor agency stores, if any, on the list in the manner and within the time required in this section and that, at the time each signer of the petition affixed the signer's signature to the petition, the petition paper contained a copy of the list of affected permit holders and liquor agency stores.
Within five days after receiving a petition calling for an election for the submission of one or more of the questions specified in divisions (A) to (C) (D) of section 4301.35 or section 4301.351 of the Revised Code, the board shall give notice by certified mail that it has received the petition to all liquor permit holders and liquor agency stores, if any, whose names appear on the list of affected permit holders and liquor agency stores filed by the petitioner as furnished by the division. Failure of the petitioner to supply the affidavit required by this section and a complete and accurate list of liquor permit holders as furnished by the division and liquor agency stores, if any, invalidates the entire petition. The board of elections shall provide to a permit holder who or liquor agency store that would be affected by a proposed local option election, on the permit holder's or liquor agency store's request, the names of the streets, and, if appropriate, the address numbers of residences and business establishments within the precinct or residence district in which the election is sought that would be affected by the results of the election. The board may charge a reasonable fee for this information when provided to the petitioner and the permit holder or liquor agency store.
(B) Upon the presentation of a petition, not later than four p.m. of the seventy-fifth day before the day of a general or primary election, to the board of elections of the county where the precinct or residence district is located, designating whether it is a petition for an election for the submission of one or more of the questions specified in section 4301.35 of the Revised Code, or a petition for the submission of one or more of the questions specified in section 4301.351 of the Revised Code, designating the particular question or questions specified in section 4301.35 or 4301.351 of the Revised Code that are to be submitted, and signed by the qualified electors of the precinct or residence district concerned, equal in number to thirty-five per cent of the total number of votes cast in the precinct concerned for the office of governor at the preceding general election for that office, in the case of an election within a single precinct, or equal in number to fifty-five per cent of the total number of votes cast in the residence district concerned for the office of governor at the preceding general election for that office, in the case of an election within a residence district, the board shall submit the question or questions specified in the petition to the electors of the precinct or residence district concerned, on the day of the next general or primary election, whichever occurs first and shall proceed as follows:
(A)(1) Such board shall, not later than the sixty-sixth day before the day of the election for which the question or questions on the petition would qualify for submission to the electors of the precinct or residence district, examine and determine the sufficiency of the signatures and review, examine, and determine the validity of the petition and, in case of overlapping residence district petitions or overlapping precinct and residence district petitions presented within that period, determine which of the petitions shall govern the further proceedings of the board. In the case where the board determines that two or more overlapping petitions are valid, the earlier filed petition shall govern. The board shall certify the sufficiency and validity of any petition determined to be valid. The board shall determine the validity of the petition as of the time of certification as described in this division.
(B)(2) If a petition is sufficient, and, in case of overlapping residence district petitions or overlapping precinct and residence district petitions, after the board has determined the governing petition, the board to which the petition has been presented shall order the holding of a special election in the precinct or residence district for the submission of whichever of the questions specified in section 4301.35 or 4301.351 of the Revised Code are designated in the petition, on the day of the next general or primary election, whichever occurs first.
(3) All petitions filed with a board of elections under this section shall be open to public inspection under rules adopted by the board.
(4) Protest against local option petitions may be filed by any elector eligible to vote on the question or questions described in the petitions or by a permit holder or liquor agency store in the precinct or residence district as described in the petitions, not later than four p.m. of the sixty-fourth day before the day of the general or primary election for which the petition qualified. The protest shall be in writing and shall be filed with the election officials with whom the petition was filed. Upon filing of the protest, the election officials with whom it is filed shall promptly fix the time for hearing it, and shall mail notice of the filing of the protest and the time and place for hearing it to the person who filed the petition and to the person who filed the protest. At the time and place fixed, the election officials shall hear the protest and determine the validity of the petition.
Sec. 4301.331.  (A) The privilege of local option conferred by section 4301.321 of the Revised Code may shall be exercised if, not later than four p.m. of the seventy-fifth day before the day of a general or primary election, a petition together with a copy of each of the judgment entries of the court for the violations of section 2907.09, 2907.22, 2907.23, 2907.24, 2915.02, 2915.03, division (A) or (B) of section 4301.22, or division (A) of section 4301.69 of the Revised Code that are the grounds for the exercise of the local option privilege is presented to the board of elections of the county in which the precinct in which the particular premises at which the permit holder operates pursuant to the liquor permit that is the subject of the petition is situated.
The petition provided for in this section may consist of one or more separate petition papers. In addition to the requirements of this section, the petitions shall be governed by the rules set forth in section 3501.38 of the Revised Code.
The petitioner shall attach a copy of each such judgment entry to each petition paper the petitioner circulates. At the time the petition is filed with the board of elections, the petitioner shall provide to the board of elections an affidavit certifying that at the time each signer signed the petition, the petition paper contained a copy of each such judgment entry. A part petition paper circulated at any time without the required judgment entries attached to it is invalid. Failure of the petitioner to supply the affidavit required by this section invalidates the entire petition. The petition is valid only if the violations named in the judgment entries occurred within one year prior to the date of the election for which the petition is presented to the board of elections. The petition shall be signed by the electors of the precinct equal in number to thirty-five per cent of the total number of votes cast in the precinct for the office of governor at the preceding general election for that office and If a statement is filed PURSUANT to division (F) of section 3767.05 of the Revised Code indicating that a liquor permit premises has been adjudged a nuisance. The statement shall be filed in accordance with this section by at least one of the following persons:
(1) The attorney general;
(2) The village solicitor of the village in which the nuisance has been adjudged to exist pursuant to division (D) or (E) of section 3767.05 of the Revised Code;
(3) The city director of law or other similar chief legal officer of a municipal corporation in which the nuisance has been adjudged to exist pursuant to division (D) or (E) of section 3767.05 of the Revised Code;
(4) The prosecuting attorney of a county in which a nuisance has been adjudged to exist pursuant to division (D) or (E) of section 3767.05 of the Revised Code;
(5) The law director of a township that has adopted the limited self-government form of government under Chapter 504. of the Revised Code in which the nuisance has been adjudged to exist pursuant to division (D) or (E) of section 3767.05 of the Revised Code;
(6) The superintendent of the division of liquor control;
(7) The division of liquor enforcement of the department of public safety.
(B) The statement prescribed under division (A) of this section shall be filed with the board of elections of the county in which the nuisance was adjudged to exist pursuant to division (D) or (E) of section 3767.05 of the Revised Code not later than four p.m. of the seventy-fifth day before the day of the next general or primary election, together with a copy of the judgment and entry issued pursuant to division (D) or (E) of section 3767.05 of the Revised Code that is the basis for the exercise of the local option privilege.
(C) The statement prescribed under division (A) of this section shall contain both of the following:
(A)(1) A notice that the petition statement is for the submission of the question set forth in section 4301.352 of the Revised Code;
(B)(2) The name of a class C or D permit holder and the address of the permit holder's permit premises. If the business conducted by a class C or D permit holder at the permit premises has a name different from the permit holder's personal or corporate name, the name of the permit holder's business shall be stated along with the permit holder's personal or corporate name.
(D) Not later than five days after a petition the statement prescribed under division (A) of this section is filed under this section, the board shall give notice by certified mail that it has received the petition statement to the liquor permit holder whose permit would be affected by the results of the special election sought required by the petition filing of the statement. Failure of the petitioner to supply a complete and accurate address of the liquor permit holder to the board of elections invalidates the petition election. Not
For purposes of this section, "complete and accurate address" means all of the following:
(1) The address of the liquor permit premises;
(2) The address of the statutory agent of the liquor permit holder, if applicable;
(3) The address of the liquor permit holder if different from the liquor permit premises address.
(E) Not later than the sixty-sixth day before the day of the next general or primary election, whichever occurs first, the board shall examine and determine the sufficiency of the signatures on the petition and review, examine, and determine the validity of the petition. The board shall certify the sufficiency and validity of any petition determined to be valid. The board shall determine the validity of the petition the statement, make such determination as of the time of certification. If the board finds that the petition is valid, it shall, and order the holding of a special an election in the precinct on the day of that general or primary election for the submission of the question set forth in section 4301.352 of the Revised Code.
(F) A petition statement filed with the board of elections under division (A) of this section shall be open to public inspection under rules adopted by the board.
An elector who is eligible to vote on the question set forth in section 4301.352 of the Revised Code or the permit holder named on the petition statement, not later than four p.m. of the sixty-fourth day before the day of the special election at which the question will be submitted to the electors, may file a protest against a local option petition. The protest shall be in writing and shall be filed with the election officials with whom the petition statement was filed. Upon the filing of the protest, the election officials with whom it is filed shall promptly fix a time and place for hearing the protest, and shall mail notice of the time and place for hearing it to the person who filed the petition statement and to the person who filed the protest. At the time and place fixed, the election officials shall hear the protest and determine the validity of the petition statement.
Sec. 4301.332.  (A) The board of elections shall provide to a petitioner circulating a petition for an election for the submission of one or more of the questions specified in section 4301.353 or 4301.354 of the Revised Code, at the time of taking out the petition, the names of the streets and, if appropriate, the address numbers of residences and business establishments within the precinct or residence district that would be affected by the results of the election, and a form prescribed by the secretary of state for notifying affected permit holders of the circulation of a petition for an election for the submission of one or more of the questions specified in section 4301.353 or 4301.354 of the Revised Code. The petitioner shall, not less than forty-five days before the petition-filing deadline for the election, as provided in this section, file with the division of liquor control the information regarding names of streets and, if appropriate, address numbers of residences and business establishments provided by the board of elections, and specify to the division the portion of the precinct or residence district that would be affected by the results of the election and the filing deadline. The division shall, within a reasonable period of time and not later than fifteen days before the filing deadline, supply the petitioner with a list of the names and addresses of permit holders, if any, who would be affected by the election. The list shall contain a heading with the following words: "Liquor permit holders who would be affected by the question(s) set forth on petition for a local option election."
Within five days after a petitioner has received from the division the list of liquor permit holders, if any, who would be affected by the question or questions set forth on a petition for local option election, the petitioner, using the form provided by the board of elections, shall notify by certified mail each permit holder whose name appears on that list. The form for notifying affected permit holders shall require the petitioner to state the petitioner's name and street address and shall contain a statement that a petition is being circulated for an election for the submission of the question or questions specified in section 4301.353 or 4301.354 of the Revised Code. The form shall require the petitioner to state the question or questions to be submitted as they appear on the petition.
The petitioner shall attach a copy of the list provided by the division to each petition paper. A part petition paper circulated at any time without the list of affected permit holders attached to it is invalid.
At the time the petitioner files the petition with the board of elections, the petitioner shall provide to the board the list supplied by the division and an affidavit certifying that the petitioner notified all affected permit holders, if any, on the list in the manner and within the time required in this section and that, at the time each signer of the petition affixed the signer's signature to the petition, the petition paper contained a copy of the list of affected permit holders.
Within five days after receiving a petition calling for an election for the submission of one or more of the questions specified in section 4301.353 or 4301.354 of the Revised Code, the board shall give notice by certified mail that it has received the petition to all liquor permit holders, if any, whose names appear on the list of affected permit holders filed by the petitioner as furnished by the division. Failure of the petitioner to supply the affidavit required by this section and a complete and accurate list of liquor permit holders as furnished by the division invalidates the entire petition. The board of elections shall provide to a permit holder who would be affected by a proposed local option election, on the permit holder's request, the names of the streets, and, if appropriate, the address numbers of residences and business establishments within the portion of the precinct or residence district that would be affected by the results of the election. The board may charge a reasonable fee for this information when provided to the petitioner and the permit holder.
This division does not apply to an election held under section 4301.353 or 4301.354 of the Revised Code if the results of the election would not affect any permit holder.
(B) Upon the presentation of a petition, not later than four p.m. of the seventy-fifth day before the day of a general or primary election, to the board of elections of the county where the precinct or residence district is located, designating whether it is a petition for an election for the submission of one or both of the questions specified in section 4301.353 of the Revised Code, or a petition for the submission of one or more of the questions specified in section 4301.354 of the Revised Code, designating the particular question or questions specified in section 4301.353 or 4301.354 of the Revised Code that are to be submitted, and signed by the qualified electors of the precinct or residence district concerned, equal in number to thirty-five per cent of the total number of votes cast in the precinct or residence district concerned for the office of governor at the preceding general election for that office, in the case of an election within a single precinct, or equal in number to fifty-five per cent of the total number of votes cast in the residence district concerned for the office of governor at the preceding general election for that office, in the case of an election within a residence district, the board shall submit the question or questions specified in the petition to the electors of the precinct or residence district concerned, on the day of the next general or primary election, whichever occurs first and shall proceed as follows:
(1) Such board shall, not later than the sixty-sixth day before the day of the election for which the question or questions on the petition would qualify for submission to the electors of the precinct or residence district, examine and determine the sufficiency of the signatures and review, examine, and determine the validity of the petition and, in case of overlapping residence district petitions or overlapping precinct and residence district petitions presented within that period, determine which of the petitions shall govern the further proceedings of the board. In the case where the board determines that two or more overlapping petitions are valid, the earlier filed petition shall govern. The board shall certify the sufficiency and validity of any petition determined to be valid. The board shall determine the validity of the petition as of the time of certification as described in this division.
(2) If a petition is sufficient, and, in case of overlapping residence district petitions or overlapping precinct and residence district petitions, after the board has determined the governing petition, the board to which the petition has been presented shall order the holding of a special election in the precinct or residence district for the submission of whichever of the questions specified in section 4301.353 or 4301.354 of the Revised Code are designated in the petition, on the day of the next general or primary election, whichever occurs first.
(C) All petitions filed with a board of elections under this section shall be open to public inspection under rules adopted by the board.
(D) Protest against local option petitions may be filed by any elector eligible to vote on the question or questions described in the petitions or by a permit holder in the precinct or residence district as described in the petitions, not later than four p.m. of the sixty-fourth day before the day of the general or primary election for which the petition qualified. The protest shall be in writing and shall be filed with the election officials with whom the petition was filed. Upon filing of the protest, the election officials with whom it is filed shall promptly fix the time for hearing it, and shall mail notice of the filing of the protest and the time and place for hearing it to the person who filed the petition and to the person who filed the protest. At the time and place fixed, the election officials shall hear the protest and determine the validity of the petition.
Sec. 4301.333. (A) The privilege of local option conferred by section 4301.323 of the Revised Code may be exercised if, not later than four p.m. of the seventy-fifth day before the day of a general or primary election, a petition is presented to the board of elections of the county in which the precinct is situated by a petitioner who is one of the following:
(1) An applicant for the issuance or transfer of a liquor permit at, or to, a particular location within the precinct;
(2) The holder of a liquor permit at a particular location within the precinct;
(3) A person who operates or seeks to operate a liquor agency store at a particular location within the precinct;
(4) The designated agent for such an applicant, liquor permit holder, or liquor agency store.
(B) The petition shall be signed by the electors of the precinct equal in number to at least thirty-five per cent of the total number of votes cast in the precinct for the office of governor at the preceding general election of that office and shall contain all of the following:
(1) A notice that the petition is for the submission of the question or questions set forth in section 4301.353 of the Revised Code;
(2) The name of the applicant for the issuance or transfer, or the holder, of the liquor permit or, if applicable, the name of the liquor agency store, including any trade or fictitious names under which the applicant or holder or liquor agency store either intends to or does do business at the particular location;
(3) If the petitioner is the designated agent of the applicant, liquor holder, or liquor agency store, written evidence of the designation of the agent by the applicant, liquor permit holder, or liquor agency store for the purpose of petitioning for the local option election;
(4) The address and proposed use of the particular location within the election precinct to which the results of the question or questions specified in section 4301.355 of the Revised Code shall apply. For purposes of this division, "use" means all of the following:
(a) The type of each liquor permit applied for by the applicant or held by the liquor permit holder as described in sections 4303.11 to 4303.183 of the Revised Code, including a description of the type of beer or intoxicating liquor sales authorized by each permit as provided in those sections;
(b) If a liquor agency store, the fact that the business operated as a liquor agency store authorized to operate by the state of Ohio;
(c) A description of the general nature of the business of the applicant, liquor permit holder, or liquor agency store.
(5) An affidavit signed by the petitioner stating the proposed use of the location following the election held to authorize the sale of beer and intoxicating liquor.
(C) Not later than the sixty-sixth day before the day of the next general or primary election, whichever occurs first, the board shall examine and determine the sufficiency of the signatures and the validity of the petition. If the board finds that the petition contains sufficient signatures and in other respects is valid, it shall order the holding of an election in the precinct on the day of the next general or primary election, whichever occurs first, for the submission of the question or questions set forth in section 4301.355 of the Revised Code.
(D) A petition filed with the board of elections under this section shall be open to public inspection under rules adopted by the board.
(E) An elector who is eligible to vote on the question or questions set forth in section 4301.355 of the Revised Code may file, not later than four p.m. of the sixty-fourth day before the day of the election at which the question or questions will be submitted to the electors, a protest against a local option petition circulated and filed pursuant to this section. The protest shall be in writing and shall be filed with the election officials with whom the petition was filed. Upon the filing of the protest, the election officials with whom it is filed shall promptly establish a time and place for hearing the protest and shall mail notice of the time and place for the hearing to the applicant for, or the holder of, the liquor permit who is specified in the petition and to the elector who filed the protest. At the time and place established in the notice, the election officials shall hear the protest and determine the validity of the petition.
Sec. 4301.334. (A) The privilege of local option conferred by section 4301.323 Of the Revised Code may be exercised if, not later than four p.m. of the seventy-fifth day before the day of a general or primary election, a petition and other information required by division (B) of this section are presented to the board of elections of the county in which the community facility named in the petition is located. The petition shall be signed by electors of the election precinct in which the community facility is located equal in number to at least thirty-five per cent of the total number of votes cast in the precinct for the office of governor at the most recent general election for that office and shall contain both of the following:
(1) A notice that the petition is for the submission of the question set forth in section 4301.356 Of the Revised Code;
(2) The name and address of the community facility for which the local option election is sought.
(B) Upon the request of a petitioner, a board of elections of a county shall furnish to the petitioner a copy of the instructions prepared by the secretary of state under division (P) of section 3501.05 Of the Revised Code and, within fifteen days after the request, a certificate indicating the number of valid signatures that will be required on a petition to hold an election in the municipal corporation or unincorporated area of the township in which the community facility is located on the question specified in section 4301.356 Of the Revised Code.
The petitioner shall, not less than thirty days before the petition-filing deadline for an election on the question specified in section 4301.356 Of the Revised Code, specify to the division of liquor control the name and address of the community facility for which the election is sought, the municipal corporation or unincorporated area of a township in which the election is sought, and the filing deadline. the division shall, within a reasonable period of time and not later than ten days before the filing deadline, supply the petitioner with the name and address of the permit holder for the community facility.
The petitioner shall file the name and address of the permit holder who would be affected by the election at the time the petitioner files the petition with the board of elections. Within five days after receiving the petition, the board shall give notice by certified mail that it has received the petition to the permit holder for the community facility. Failure of the petitioner to supply the name and address of the permit holder for the community facility as furnished to the petitioner by the division invalidates the petition.
(C) Not later than the sixty-sixth day before the day of the next general or primary election, whichever occurs first, the board shall examine and determine the sufficiency of the signatures on the petition. If the board finds that the petition is valid, it shall order the holding of an election in the municipal corporation or unincorporated area of a township on the day of the next general or primary election, whichever occurs first, for the submission of the question set forth in section 4301.356 Of the Revised Code.
(D) A petition filed with a board of elections under this section shall be open to public inspection under rules adopted by the board.
(E) An elector who is eligible to vote on the question set forth in section 4301.356 Of the Revised Code or the permit holder for the community facility may, not later than four p.m. of the sixty-fourth day before the day of the election at which the question will be submitted to the electors, file a written protest against the local option petition with the board of elections with which the petition was filed. Upon the filing of the protest, the board shall promptly fix a time and place for hearing the protest, and shall mail notice of the time and place to the person who filed the petition and to the person who filed the protest. At the time and place fixed, the board shall hear the protest and determine the validity of the petition.
Sec. 4301.34.  The petition provided for in section 4301.33, 4301.331, or 4301.332, 4301.333, or 4301.334 of the Revised Code may consist of one or more separate petition papers. Petitions and shall be governed by the rules set forth in section 3501.38 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 4301.35.  If a petition is for submission of one or more of the questions specified under this section, a special election shall be held in the precinct or residence district at the time fixed as provided in section 4301.33 of the Revised Code. The expenses of holding the election shall be charged to the municipal corporation or township of which the precinct or residence district is a part.
At the election any one or more of the following questions, as designated in a valid petition, shall be submitted to the electors of the precinct:
(A) "Shall the sale of wine and mixed beverages by the package, under permits which authorize sale for off-premise consumption only, be permitted in .................?"
(B) "Shall the sale of wine and mixed beverages, under permits which authorize sale for on-premise consumption only, and under permits which authorize sale for both on-premise and off-premise consumption, be permitted in .......?"
(C) "Shall the sale of spirituous liquors by the glass be permitted in ..................?"
(D) "Shall state liquor stores or liquor agency stores for the sale of spirituous liquor by the package, for consumption off the premises where sold, be permitted in ................?"
The board of elections to which a petition is presented shall furnish printed ballots at the election in accordance with section 3505.06 of the Revised Code, and separate ballots shall be used for the special election. All the questions designated in a valid petition or overlapping petitions containing one or more questions to be set forth on the ballot shall be set forth on each ballot and the board shall insert in each question the name or an accurate description of the precinct or residence district in which the election is to be held. Votes shall be cast as provided in section 3505.06 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 4301.351.  If a petition is for submission of the question of whether the sale of intoxicating liquor shall be permitted on Sunday, a special election shall be held in the precinct or residence district at the time fixed as provided in section 4301.33 of the Revised Code. The expenses of holding the election shall be charged to the municipal corporation or township of which the precinct or residence district is a part.
At the election one or more of the following questions, as designated in a valid petition, shall be submitted to the electors of the precinct or residence district:
(A) "Shall the sale of intoxicating liquor, of the same types as may be legally sold in this (precinct) (district) on other days of the week, be permitted in this ........ for consumption on the premises where sold, between the hours of one p.m. and midnight on Sunday?"
(B) "Shall the sale of intoxicating liquor, of the same types as may be legally sold in this (precinct) (district) on other days of the week, be permitted in this ........ for consumption on the premises where sold, between the hours of one p.m. and midnight on Sunday, at licensed premises where the sale of food and other goods and services exceeds fifty per cent of the total gross receipts of the permit holder at the premises?"
(C) "Shall the sale of wine and mixed beverages of the same types as may be legally sold in this (precinct) (district) on other days of the week, be permitted in this ........ for consumption off the premises where sold, between the hours of one p.m. and midnight on Sunday?"
No C or D permit holder who first applied for such a permit after April 15, 1982, shall sell beer on Sunday unless the sale of intoxicating liquor is authorized in the precinct or residence district or portion thereof at an election on question (A), (B), or (C) of this section or at an election on question (A), (B), or (C) of section 4301.354 of the Revised Code, whichever question or questions are appropriate. No D-6 permit is required for the sale of beer on Sunday.
The board of elections to which the petition is presented shall furnish printed ballots at the election in accordance with section 3505.06 of the Revised Code, and separate ballots shall be used for the special election. One or more of the questions prescribed by this section, as designated in the petition, shall be set forth on each ballot and the board shall insert in each question the name or an accurate description of the precinct or residence district in which the election is to be held. Votes shall be cast as provided in section 3505.06 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 4301.352.  If a petition is filed under section 4301.331 of the Revised Code for the submission of the question set forth in this section, a special an election shall be held in the precinct as ordered by the board of elections under that section. The expense of holding the special election shall be charged to the municipal corporation or township of which the precinct is a part. At the special that election the following question shall be submitted to the electors of the precinct:
"Shall the sale of ..................... (insert a brief categorical description of the appropriate beverage) ................... beer and intoxicating liquor by.................... (insert the permit holder's personal or corporate name, and if it is different from the permit holder's personal or corporate name, the name of the permit holder's business) ...................... at.................... (insert the address of the permit premises) ...................., which was adjudged to be a nuisance to the public by (insert the name of the court, including the name of the political subdivision of the court, issuing such judgment) ............ on (the date the judgment was issued by the court) ........... be permitted in this precinct?"
The board of elections shall furnish printed ballots at the special election described in this section as provided under section 3505.06 of the Revised Code, except that a separate ballot shall be used for the special this election. The question set forth in this section shall be printed on each ballot and the board shall insert in the question appropriate words to complete the question. Votes shall be cast as provided under section 3505.06 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 4301.353.  If a petition is filed under section 4301.332 of the Revised Code for the submission of the one or more questions set forth in this section, a special election shall be held in the precinct or residence district as ordered by the board of elections under that section. The expense of holding the special election shall be charged to the municipal corporation or township of which the precinct or residence district is a part.
At the election, one or both of the following questions as designated in a valid petition shall be submitted to the electors of the precinct or residence district concerning sales on days of the week other than Sunday:
(A) "Shall the sales of (insert one or both of the following: beer, or wine and mixed beverages) by the package, under permits that authorize sale for off-premises consumption only, be permitted in a portion of this (precinct) (district) in which the status of the sale of (insert one or both of the following: beer, or wine and mixed beverages) as allowed or prohibited is inconsistent with the status of such sale in the remainder of the (precinct) (district)?"
(B) "Shall the sale of (insert one or more of the following: beer, wine and mixed beverages, or spirituous liquor), under permits that authorize sale for on-premises consumption only, and under permits that authorize sale for both on-premises and off-premises consumption, be permitted in a portion of this (precinct) (district) in which the status of the sale of (insert one or more of the following: beer, wine and mixed beverages, or spirituous liquor) as allowed or prohibited is inconsistent with the status of such sale in the remainder of the (precinct) (district)?"
The board of elections shall furnish printed ballots at the special election as provided under section 3505.06 of the Revised Code, except that a separate ballot shall be used for the special election. One or both of the questions set forth in this section shall be printed on each ballot and the board shall insert in the question and statement appropriate words to complete each and a description of the portion of the precinct or residence district that would be affected by the results of the election.
The description of the portion of the precinct or residence district shall include either the complete listing of street addresses in that portion or a condensed text that accurately describes the boundaries of the portion of the precinct or residence district by street name or by another name generally known by the residents of the portion of the precinct or residence district. If other than a full street listing is used, the full street listing also shall be posted in each polling place in a location that is easily accessible to all voters. Failure of the board of elections to completely and accurately list all street addresses in the affected area of the precinct or residence district does not affect the validity of the election at which the failure occurred and is not grounds for contesting an election under section 3515.08 of the Revised Code. Votes shall be cast as provided under section 3505.06 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 4301.354.  If a petition is filed under section 4301.332 of the Revised Code for the submission of the one or more questions set forth in this section, a special election shall be held in the precinct or residence district as ordered by the board of elections under that section. The expense of holding the special election shall be charged to the municipal corporation or township of which the precinct or residence district is a part.
At the election, one or more of the following questions as designated in a valid petition shall be submitted to the electors of the (precinct) (district) concerning Sunday sales:
(A) "Shall the sale of intoxicating liquor be permitted in a portion of this (precinct) (district) between the hours of one p.m. and midnight on Sunday for consumption on the premises where sold, where the status of such Sunday sales as allowed or prohibited is inconsistent with the status of such Sunday sales in the remainder of the (precinct) (district)?"
(B) "Shall the sale of intoxicating liquor be permitted in a portion of this (precinct) (district) between the hours of one p.m. and midnight on Sunday for consumption on the premises where sold at licensed premises where the sale of food and other goods exceeds fifty per cent of the total gross receipts of the permit holder at the premises, where the status of such Sunday sales as allowed or prohibited is inconsistent with the status of such Sunday sales in the remainder of the (precinct) (district)?"
(C) "Shall the sale of wine and mixed beverages be permitted in a portion of this (precinct) (district) between the hours of one p.m. and midnight on Sunday for consumption off the premises where sold, where the status of such Sunday sales as allowed or prohibited is inconsistent with the status of such Sunday sales in the remainder of the (precinct) (district)?"
The board of elections shall furnish printed ballots at the special election as provided under section 3505.06 of the Revised Code, except that a separate ballot shall be used for the special election. The one or more questions set forth in this section shall be printed on each ballot and the board shall insert in the question and statement appropriate words to complete each and a description of the portion of the precinct or residence district that would be affected by the results of the election.
The description of the portion of the precinct or residence district shall include either the complete listing of street addresses in that portion or a condensed text that accurately describes the boundaries of the portion of the precinct or residence district by street name or by another name generally known by the residents of the portion of the precinct or residence district. If other than a full street listing is used, the full street listing also shall be posted in each polling place in a location that is easily accessible to all voters. Failure of the board of elections to completely and accurately list all street addresses in the affected area of the precinct or residence district does not affect the validity of the election at which the failure occurred and is not grounds for contesting an election under section 3515.08 of the Revised Code. Votes shall be cast as provided under section 3505.06 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 4301.355. (A) If a petition is filed under section 4301.333 of the Revised Code for the submission of the question or questions set forth in this section, it shall be held in the precinct as ordered by the board of elections under that section. The expense of holding the election shall be charged to the municipal corporation or township of which the precinct is a part.
(B) At the election, one or more of the following questions, as designated in a valid petition, shall be submitted to the electors of the precinct:
(1) "Shall the sale of beer and any intoxicating liquor be permitted by.......(Insert name of applicant, liquor permit holder, or liquor agency store, including trade or fictitious name under which applicant for, or holder of, liquor permit or liquor agency store either intends to, or does, do business at the particular location), an ......... (insert "applicant for" or "holder of" or "operator of") a ........(insert class name of liquor permit or permits followed by the words "liquor permit(s)" or, if appropriate, the words "liquor agency store for the State of Ohio"), who is engaged in the business of .......(insert general nature of the business in which applicant or liquor permit holder is engaged or to be engaged at the particular location, as described in the petition) at ............(Insert address of the particular location within the precinct as set forth in the petition) in this precinct?"
(2) "Shall the sale of beer and intoxicating liquor be permitted for sale on Sunday by ........ (insert name of applicant, liquor permit holder, or liquor agency store, including trade or fictitious name under which applicant for, or holder of, liquor permit or liquor agency store either intends to, or does, do business at the particular location), an ......(insert "applicant for a D-6 liquor permit," "holder of a D-6 liquor permit," or "liquor agency store") who is engaged in the business of ...........(insert general nature of the business in which applicant or liquor permit holder is engaged or to be engaged at the particular location, as described in the petition) at......... (Insert address of the particular location within the precinct) in this precinct?"
If the sale of beer and intoxicating liquor has been approved at a particular location within the precinct at a previous election held under section 4301.355 of the Revised Code, the ballot also shall include the following statement:
"AT a previous election held under section 4301.355 of the REvised Code, the electors approved the sale of beer and intoxicating liquor at........(insert business name and address of the particular location or locations within the precinct where such sale has been approved at a previous election under section 4301.355 of the Revised Code)."
The board of elections shall furnish printed ballots at the election as provided under section 3505.06 of the REvised Code, except that a separate ballot shall be used for the election under section 4301.355 Of the Revised Code. The question and, if applicable, the statement set forth in this section shall be printed on each ballot and the board shall insert in the question and statement appropriate words to complete each. Votes shall be cast as provided under section 3505.06 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 4301.356. If a petition is filed under section 4301.333 Of the Revised Code for the submission of the question set forth in this section, an election shall be held in the municipal corporation or unincorporated area of a township as ordered by the board of elections under that section.
Except as otherwise provided in this section, if the legislative authority of a municipal corporation in whose territory, or the board of township trustees of a township in whose unincorporated area, a community facility is located submits, not later than four p.m. of the seventy-fifth day before the day of a primary or general election, to the board of elections of the county in which the community facility is located an ordinance or resolution requesting the submission of the question set forth in this section to the electors of the municipal corporation or unincorporated area of the township, the board of elections shall order that an election be held on that question in the municipal corporation or the unincorporated area of the township on the day of the next primary or general election, whichever occurs first. The legislative authority or board of township trustees shall submit the name and address of the permit holder who would be affected by the results of the election to the board of elections at the same time it submits the ordinance or resolution. The board of elections, within five days after receiving the name and address, shall give notice by certified mail that it has received the ordinance or resolution to that permit holder. Failure of the legislative authority or board of township trustees to supply the name and address of the permit holder to the board of elections invalidates the effect of the ordinance or resolution.
At the election the following question shall be submitted to the electors of the municipal corporation or unincorporated area of a township:
"Shall the sale of beer and intoxicating liquor be permitted on days of the week other than Sunday and between the hours of one p.m. and midnight on Sunday, at .......... (insert name of community facility), a community facility as defined by section 4301.01 Of the Revised Code, and located at ........ (insert the address of the community facility as set forth in the petition)?"
The board of elections shall furnish printed ballots at the election as provided under section 3505.06 Of the Revised Code, except that a separate ballot shall be used for the election. The question set forth in this section shall be printed on each ballot and the board shall insert in the question appropriate words to complete each, subject to the approval of the secretary of state. Votes shall be cast as provided under section 3505.06 Of the Revised Code.
Sec. 4301.36.  If a majority of the electors voting in a precinct or residence district vote "yes" on question (A), (B), or (C) as set forth in section 4301.35 of the Revised Code, the sales specified in such one or more of the questions on which a majority of the electors voting in such precinct or residence district voted "yes" shall be subject in the precinct or residence district only to Chapters 4301. and 4303. of the Revised Code.
If a majority of the electors voting in such precinct or residence district vote "no" on question (A), (B), or (C) set forth in section 4301.35 of the Revised Code, no C or D permit holder shall sell intoxicating liquor of the kind or in the manner specified in such one or more of the questions on which a majority of the electors voting in the precinct or residence district voted "no," within the precinct or residence district concerned, during the period such election is in effect as defined in section 4301.37 of the Revised Code.
If a majority of the electors voting in such precinct or residence district vote "no" on question (D) as set forth in section 4301.35 of the Revised Code, all state liquor stores in the precinct or residence district shall be forthwith closed and, during the period the vote is in effect, as defined in section 4301.37 of the Revised Code, no state liquor store shall be opened in that precinct or residence district.
Sec. 4301.361.  If a majority of the electors voting on questions set forth in section 4301.351 of the Revised Code in a precinct or residence district vote "yes" on question (A), or, if both questions (A) and (B) are submitted, "yes" on both questions or "yes" on question (A) but "no" on question (B), sales of intoxicating liquor shall be allowed in the manner and under the conditions specified in question (A), under a D-6 permit, within the precinct or residence district concerned, during the period the election is in effect as defined in section 4301.37 of the Revised Code.
If only question (B) is submitted to the voters or if questions (B) and (C) are submitted and a majority of the electors voting in a precinct or residence district vote "yes" on question (B) as set forth in section 4301.351 of the Revised Code, sales of intoxicating liquor shall be allowed in the manner and under the conditions specified in question (B), under a D-6 permit, within the precinct or residence district concerned, during the period the election is in effect as defined in section 4301.37 of the Revised Code, even if question (A) was also submitted and a majority of the electors voting in the precinct or residence district voted "no."
If question (C) is submitted and a majority of electors voting on the question (C) set forth in section 4301.351 of the Revised Code in a precinct or residence district vote "yes," sales of wine and mixed beverages shall be allowed in the manner and under the conditions specified in question (C), under a D-6 permit, within the precinct or residence district concerned, during the period the election is in effect as defined in section 4301.37 of the Revised Code.
If questions (A), (B), and (C), as set forth in section 4301.351 of the Revised Code, are all submitted and a majority of the electors voting in such precinct or residence district vote "no" on all three questions, no sales of intoxicating liquor shall be made within the precinct or residence district concerned after two-thirty a.m. on Sunday, during the period the election is in effect as defined in section 4301.37 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 4301.362.  If a majority of the electors voting on the question set forth in section 4301.352 of the Revised Code vote "yes," the sale of beer or intoxicating liquor by a class C or D permit holder at the specified premises shall only be subject to Chapters 4301. and 4303. of the Revised Code.
If a majority of the electors voting on the question set forth in section 4301.352 of the Revised Code vote "no," the board of elections shall notify the division of liquor control of the final result of the election by certified mail. When the division receives notice of the final result of the election, it shall cancel and pick up the permit holder's permit within seven days unless prior to such time, both of the following occur:
(A) The liquor permit holder timely appeals the judgment that is the basis for the holding of the election.
(B) The liquor permit holder files an action pursuant to section 4301.281 of the Revised Code and obtains an injunction under that section.
The results of a local option election that is held in a precinct pursuant to section 4301.352 of the Revised Code shall not affect the results of a local option election that is held in the same precinct under section 4301.35, 4301.351, 4301.354, 4303.29, or 4305.14 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 4301.363.  (A) If a majority of the electors in a precinct or residence district vote "yes" on question (A) as set forth in section 4301.353 of the Revised Code, the sale of beer, or wine and mixed beverages, as specified in the question shall be permitted in the portion of the precinct or residence district affected by the results of the election for sale by the package under permits that authorize the sale for off-premises consumption only, subject only to Chapters 4301. and 4303. of the Revised Code.
(B) If a majority of the electors in a precinct or residence district vote "yes" on question (B) as set forth in section 4301.353 of the Revised Code, the sale of beer, wine and mixed beverages, or spirituous liquor as specified in the question shall be permitted in the portion of the precinct or residence district affected by the results of the election under permits that authorize the sale for on-premises consumption only, and under permits that authorize the sale for both on-premises and off-premises consumption, subject only to Chapters 4301. and 4303. of the Revised Code.
(C) If a majority of the electors in a precinct or residence district vote "no" on question (A) as set forth in section 4301.353 of the Revised Code, no sales of beer, or wine and mixed beverages, as specified in the question shall be permitted in the portion of the precinct or residence district affected by the results of the election.
(D) If a majority of the electors in a precinct or residence district vote "no" on question (B) as set forth in section 4301.353 of the Revised Code, no sales of beer, wine and mixed beverages, or spirituous liquor as specified in the question shall be permitted in the portion of the precinct or residence district affected by the results of the election.
Sec. 4301.364.  (A) If a majority of the electors in a precinct or residence district vote "yes" on question (A) as set forth in section 4301.354 of the Revised Code, the sale of intoxicating liquor, of the same types as may be legally sold in the precinct or residence district on other days of the week, shall be permitted in the portion of the precinct or residence district affected by the results of the election between the hours of one p.m. and midnight on Sunday for consumption on the premises where sold, subject only to Chapters 4301. and 4303. of the Revised Code.
(B) If a majority of the electors in a precinct or residence district vote "yes" on question (B) as set forth in section 4301.354 of the Revised Code, the sale of intoxicating liquor, of the same types as may be legally sold in the precinct or residence district on other days of the week, shall be permitted in the portion of the precinct or residence district affected by the results of the election between the hours of one p.m. and midnight on Sunday for consumption on the premises where sold at licensed premises where the sale of food and other goods exceeds fifty per cent of the total gross receipts of the permit holder at the premises, subject only to Chapters 4301. and 4303. of the Revised Code.
(C) If a majority of the electors in a precinct or residence district vote "yes" on question (C) as set forth in section 4301.354 of the Revised Code, the sale of wine and mixed beverages shall be permitted in the portion of the precinct or residence district affected by the results of the election between the hours of one p.m. and midnight on Sunday for consumption off the premises where sold, subject only to Chapters 4301. and 4303. of the Revised Code.
(D) If a majority of the electors in a precinct or residence district vote "no" on question (A) as set forth in section 4301.354 of the Revised Code, no sale of intoxicating liquor shall be permitted between the hours of one p.m. and midnight on Sunday for consumption on the premises where sold in the portion of the precinct or residence district affected by the results of the election.
(E) If a majority of the electors in a precinct or residence district vote "no" on question (B) as set forth in section 4301.354 of the Revised Code, no sale of intoxicating liquor, shall be permitted between the hours of one p.m. and midnight on Sunday for consumption on the premises where sold at licensed premises where the sale of food and other goods exceeds fifty per cent of the total gross receipts of the permit holder at the premises, in the portion of the precinct or residence district affected by the results of the election.
(F) If a majority of the electors in a precinct or residence district vote "no" on question (C) as set forth in section 4301.354 of the Revised Code, no sale of wine or mixed beverages shall be permitted between the hours of one p.m. and midnight on Sunday for consumption off the premises where sold in the portion of the precinct or residence district affected by the results of the election.
Sec. 4301.365. (A) If a majority of the electors in a precinct vote "yes" on questions (A) and (B), as set forth in section 4301.355 of the Revised Code, the sale OF beer and intoxicating liquor shall be allowed at the particular location and for the use specified in the question under each permit applied for by the petitioner or at the address listed for the liquor agency store subject only to Chapters 4301. and 4303. of the Revised Code. Failure to continue to use the particular location for any proposed or stated use set forth in the PETITION shall constitute good cause for the denial of a renewal of the liquor permit under division (A) of section 4303.271 of the Revised Code or cause for the NONRENEWAL or cancellation of the liquor agency store contract by the division of liquor control, except in the case where the liquor permit holder or liquor agency store decides to cease the sale of beer or intoxicating liquor on Sundays.
(B) If a majority of the electors in a precinct vote "yes" on question (A) and "no" on Question (B) as set forth in section 4301.355 of the Revised Code, the sale of beer and intoxicating liquor shall be allowed at the particular location for the use specified in question (A) of section 4301.355 of the Revised Code and under each permit applied for by the petitioner, except for a D-6 permit, subject only to Chapters 4301. and 4303. of the Revised Code.
(C) If a majority of the electors in a precinct vote "no" on question (A) as set forth in section 4301.355 of the Revised Code, no sales of beer or intoxicating liquor shall be allowed at the particular location for the use specified in the petition during the period the election is in effect as defined in section 4301.37 OF the Revised Code.
(D) If a majority of the electors in a precinct vote only on question (B) as set forth in section 4301.355 of the Revised Code, and that vote results in a majority "yes" vote, sales of beer or intoxicating liquor shall be allowed at the particular location for the use specified in the petition on Sunday during the period the election is in effect as defined in section 4301.37 of the Revised Code.
(E) If a majority of the electors in a precinct vote only on question (B) as set forth in section 4301.355 of the Revised Code, and that vote results in a majority "no" vote, no sales of beer or intoxicating liquor shall be allowed at the particular location for the use specified in the petition on Sunday during the period the election is in effect as defined in section 4301.37 of the Revised Code.
(F) In case of elections in the same precinct or overlapping precincts for the question or questions set forth in section 4301.355 of the Revised Code and for a question or questions set forth in section 4301.35, 4301.351, 4303.29, or 4305.14 of the Revised Code, the results of the election held on the question or questions set forth in section 4301.355 of the Revised Code shall apply to the particular location notwithstanding the results of the election held on the question or questions set forth in section 4301.35, 4301.351, 4303.29, or 4305.14 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 4301.366. If a majority of the electors voting on the question specified in section 4301.355 Of the Revised Code vote "yes," the sale of beer and intoxicating liquor shall be allowed at the community facility and for the use specified in the question, subject only to this chapter and Chapter 4303. Of the Revised Code. Failure to continue to use the location as a community facility constitutes good cause for rejection of the renewal of the liquor permit under division (A) of section 4303.271 Of the Revised Code.
If a majority of the electors voting on the question specified in section 4301.356 Of the Revised Code vote "no," no sales of beer or intoxicating liquor shall be made at the community facility during the period the election is in effect as defined in section 4301.37 Of the Revised Code.
Sec. 4301.37.  (A) When a local option election, other than an election under section 4301.351, 4301.352, 4301.353, or 4301.354, 4301.355, or 4301.356 of the Revised Code, is held in any precinct or residence district, except as provided in divisions (F) and (G) of section 4301.39 of the Revised Code, the result of the election shall be effective in the precinct or residence district until another election is called and held pursuant to sections 4301.32 to 4301.36 of the Revised Code, but no such election shall be held in the precinct, residence district, or part of a residence district on the same question more than once in each two years.
(B) When a local option election under section 4301.351 of the Revised Code is held in any precinct or residence district, except as provided in divisions (F) and (G) of section 4301.39 of the Revised Code, the result of the election shall be effective in the precinct or residence district until another election is called and held pursuant to sections 4301.32 to 4301.361 of the Revised Code, but no such election shall be held under section 4301.351 of the Revised Code in the precinct, residence district, or part of a residence district on the same question more than once in each two years.
(C) When a local option election is held in a precinct under section 4301.352 of the Revised Code, and a majority of the electors voting on the question vote "yes," no subsequent local option election shall be held in the precinct upon the sale of beer or intoxicating liquor by the class C or D permit holder at the specified premises for a period of at least two calendar years from the date of the most recent local option election, except that this division shall not be construed to prohibit the holding or affect the results of a local option election under section 4301.35, 4301.351, 4301.353, 4301.354, 4303.29, or 4305.14 of the Revised Code.
(D) When a local option election is held in a precinct or residence district under section 4301.353 or 4301.354 of the Revised Code, the results of the election shall be effective until another election is held under that section on the same question, but no such election shall be held in a precinct or residence district under that section on the same question for a period of at least two years from the date of the most recent election on such question. This division shall not be construed to prohibit the future holding of, or affect the future results of, a local option election held under section 4301.35, 4301.351, 4301.355, 4303.29, or 4305.14 of the Revised Code.
(E) When a local option election is held in a precinct under section 4301.355 of the Revised Code, the results of that election shall be effective at the particular location designated in the petition until another election is held pursuant to section 4301.355 of the Revised Code, or until such time as an election is held pursuant to section 4301.352 of the Revised Code, but no election shall be held under section 4301.355 Of the Revised Code regarding the same use at that particular location for a period of at least four calendar years from the date of the most recent election on such question. The results of a local option election held in a precinct under section 4301.355 of the Revised Code shall not prohibit the holding of, or be affected by the results of, a local option election held under section 4301.35, 4301.351, 4301.353, 4301.354, 4303.29, or 4305.14 of the Revised Code, except in the event of a majority "no" vote pursuant to divisions (B), (C), and (E) of section 4301.365 of the Revised Code.
(F) When a local option election is held in a municipal corporation or unincorporated area of a township under section 4301.356 Of the Revised Code, the results of the election shall be effective at the community facility that was the subject of the election until another such election is held regarding that community facility, but no such election shall be held for a period of at least four calendar years from the date of the election. The results of a local option election held in a municipal corporation or unincorporated area of a township under section 4301.355 Of the Revised Code shall not prohibit the holding of or affect or be affected by the results of a local option election held under section 4301.35, 4301.351, 4301.352, 4301.353, 4301.354, 4303.29, or 4305.14 Of the Revised Code.
(G) If a community facility is located in an election precinct in which a previous local option election in the precinct resulted in approval of the sale of beer or intoxicating liquor in the precinct, the community facility shall sell beer or intoxicating liquor only to the extent permitted by the previous local option election until an election is held pursuant to section 4301.356 Of the Revised Code.
(H) A community facility shall not be affected by a local option election held on or after the effective date of this amendment unless the election is held under section 4301.355 Of the Revised Code.
Sec. 4301.39.  (A) When the board of elections of any county determines that a petition for a local option election, presented pursuant to section 4301.33, 4301.331, 4301.332, 4301.333, 4303.29, or 4305.14 of the Revised Code is sufficient, it shall forthwith, by mail, notify the division of liquor control of the fact that such a petition has been filed and approved by it. Upon the determination of the results of any such election, the board shall forthwith notify the division by mail of the result and shall forward with the notice a plat of the precinct or residence district in which the election was held and, if applicable, shall separately identify the portion of the precinct or residence district affected by the election.
(B) On the plat of a precinct or residence district, forwarded with the results of an election that was held under section 4301.35, 4301.351, 4301.353, 4301.354, or 4303.29 of the Revised Code, the board shall show and designate all of the streets and highways in the precinct or residence district or relevant portion thereof.
(C) On the plat of a precinct, forwarded with the results of an election that was held under section 4301.352 of the Revised Code, the board shall show and designate all of the following:
(1) All of the streets and highways in the precinct;
(2) The permit premises designated in the petition that was filed under section 4301.331 of the Revised Code;
(3) A class C or D permit holder's personal or corporate name, and if it is different from the permit holder's personal or corporate name, the name of the business conducted by the permit holder on the designated premises;
(4) The address of the designated premises.
(D) On the plat of a precinct, forwarded with the results of an election that was held under section 4301.355 OF the Revised Code, the board shall show and designate all of the following:
(1) All streets and highways in the precinct;
(2) The address of the particular location within the precinct to which the election results will apply as designated in the petition that was filed under section 4301.333 of the Revised Code;
(3) The name of the applicant for the issuance or transfer, or the holder of the liquor permit or name of the liquor agency store, including any trade or fictitious names under which the applicant, holder, or operator intends to, or does, do business at the particular location, as designated in the petition that was filed under section 4301.333 of the Revised Code.
(E) With the results of an election that was held under section 4301.356 of the Revised Code, the board shall designate both of the following:
(1) The permit premises designated in the petition;
(2) The class C or D permit holder's personal or corporate name and, if it is different from the personal or corporate name, the name of the business conducted by the permit holder on the designated premises.
(F) If an application for recount is filed with the board of elections pursuant to section 3515.02 of the Revised Code or if an election contest is commenced pursuant to section 3515.09 of the Revised Code, the board of elections shall send written notice of the recount or contest, by certified mail, to the superintendent of liquor control within two days from the date of the filing of the application for recount or the commencement of an election contest. Upon the final determination of an election recount or contest, the board of elections shall send notice of the final determination, by certified mail, to the superintendent and the liquor control commission.
(E)(G) If, as the result of a local option election held pursuant to section 4301.35, 4301.351, 4301.353, 4301.354, 4303.29, or 4305.14 Of the Revised Code, the use of a permit is made partially unlawful, the division shall, within thirty days after receipt of the final notice of the result of the election, pick up and amend the permit by inserting appropriate restrictions on the permit, and forthwith reissue the permit without charge or refund to the permit holder, unless prior to thirty days after receipt of the final notice of the result of such election, both of the following occur:
(1) A petition is filed with the board of elections pursuant to section 4301.333 of the Revised Code;
(2) A copy of the petition filed with the board of elections pursuant to section 4301.333 of the Revised Code bearing the file stamp of the board of elections is filed with the superintendent of the division of liquor control.
If both of those conditions are met, the results of the election held pursuant to section 4301.35, 4301.351, 4301.353, 4301.354, 4303.29, or 4305.14 of the Revised Code shall not take effect as to the liquor permit holder specified in the petition filed pursuant to section 4301.333 of the Revised Code until the earlier of a determination by the board of elections and receipt of notification of the superintendent of the division of liquor control of notice that the petition is invalid or receipt by the superintendent of final notice of the result of an election held pursuant to section 4301.355 of the Revised Code concerning the holder of the liquor permit that resulted in a majority "no" vote.
(H) If, as the result of a local option election, except a local option election held pursuant to section 4301.352 of the Revised Code, the use of a permit is made wholly unlawful, the permit holder may, within thirty days after the certification of such final result by the board of elections to the division, deliver the permit holder's permit to the division for safekeeping as provided in section 4303.272 of the Revised Code, or the permit holder may avail itself of the remedy set forth in divisions (F)(1) and (2) of this section. In such event the results of the election shall not take effect as to the liquor permit holder specified in the petition pursuant to section 4301.333 of the Revised Code until the earlier of a determination by the board of elections and receipt of notification of the superintendent of the division of liquor control of notice that the petition is invalid or receipt by the superintendent of the final notice of the result of an election held pursuant to section 4301.355 of the Revised Code concerning the holder of the liquor permit.
(I) If as a result of a local option election, the sale of spirituous liquor by the package for consumption off the premises where sold by a liquor agency store is made unlawful, the division, within thirty days after receiving a final notice of the result of the election, shall cancel the contract entered into with that liquor agency store under section 4301.17 of the Revised Code unless prior to thirty days after receipt of the final notice of the result of such election both of the following occur:
(1) A petition is filed with the board of elections pursuant to section 4301.333 of the Revised Code;
(2) A copy of the petition filed with the board of elections pursuant to section 4301.333 of the Revised Code bearing the file stamp of the board of elections is filed with the superintendent of the division of liquor control.
If both of those conditions are met, the results of an election held pursuant to section 4301.35, 4301.351, 4301.353, 4301.354, 4303.29, or 4305.14 of the Revised Code shall not take effect as to the liquor agency store specified in the petition filed pursuant to section 4301.333 of the Revised Code until the earlier of a determination by the board of elections and receipt of notification of the superintendent of the division of liquor control of notice that such petition is invalid or receipt by the superintendent of final notice of the result of an election held pursuant to section 4301.355 of the Revised Code concerning the holder of the liquor permit that resulted in a majority "no" vote.
(F)(J) If a municipal corporation or township has been paid all the moneys due it from permit fees under section 4301.30 of the Revised Code, it shall refund to the division ninety per cent of the money attributed to the unexpired portion of all permits which are still in force at the time of a local option election that makes use of the permits unlawful, except that no refund shall be made for the unexpired portion of a license year that is less than thirty days. Failure of the municipal corporation or township to refund the amount due entitles the permit holders to operate under their permits until the refund has been made.
(K) If a municipal corporation or township has been paid all the money due it from permit fees under section 4301.30 of the Revised Code, it shall refund to the division ninety per cent of the money attributable to the unexpired portion of a permit at the time a local option election under section 4301.352 of the Revised Code makes use of the permit unlawful, except that no refund shall be made for the unexpired portion of a license year that is less than thirty days. Failure of the municipal corporation or township to refund the amount due entitles the permit holder to operate under the permit until the refund has been made.
Sec. 4301.40.  No local option election held pursuant to sections 4301.32 to 4301.39 of the Revised Code shall affect or prohibit the following:
(A) The transportation, possession, or consumption of intoxicating liquors within the precinct or residence district in which such election is held, nor sales in such precinct or residence district under B-3, E, or G permits;
(B) The sale of intoxicating liquors, at a permit premises located at any publicly owned airport, as defined in section 4563.01 of the Revised Code, at which commercial airline companies operate regularly scheduled flights on which space is available to the public, provided the permit holder operates pursuant to the authority of a liquor permit issued pursuant to Chapter 4303. of the Revised Code.
Sec. 4301.401.  (A) Notwithstanding sections 4301.32 to 4301.391 and 4305.14 of the Revised Code, and the provisions for local option elections and the election on the question of repeal of Section 9 of Article XV, Ohio Constitution, in section 4303.29 of the Revised Code, all C and D permits issued prior to December 4, 1968, by the division of liquor control with respect to premises located in territory annexed prior to December 4, 1968, to any township or municipal corporation in which the sale of beer or intoxicating liquor is allowed under C or D permits, and outstanding on that date or renewable as of that date under section 4303.271 of the Revised Code shall be considered as valid and lawfully issued, and to entitle the holder to the privileges thereof, unless such permit has been finally revoked under Chapter 4301. of the Revised Code, and shall be renewed by the division subject to section 4303.271 of the Revised Code, except that this section does not apply to a local option election held after November 17, 1969.
(B) Notwithstanding sections 4301.32 to 4301.391 and 4305.14 of the Revised Code, and the provisions for local option elections and the election on the question of repeal of Section 9 of Article XV, Ohio Constitution, in section 4303.29 of the Revised Code, the division may issue any C or D permit to a qualified applicant for a permit premises located in an area which was formerly a part of the uninhabited, unincorporated area of a township in which the sale of beer or intoxicating liquor under that C or D liquor permit is prohibited but which is currently a part of a precinct or residence district in a municipal corporation in which the sale of beer or intoxicating liquor under that C or D permit is allowed.
Sec. 4301.404. for the purpose of applying the results of elections held under sections 4301.32 to 4301.39, 4303.29, and 4305.14 of the Revised Code to liquor permit premises, if a property is divided between two precincts and the sale of beer or a particular type of intoxicating liquor is allowed in one precinct but is prohibited in the other precinct, the property shall be considered to be located in the precinct where the sale of beer or that particular type of intoxicating liquor is allowed.
Sec. 4301.74.  Any person subject to an injunction, temporary or permanent, granted pursuant to division (D) or (E) of section 4301.73 3767.05 of the Revised Code, involving a condition described in division (C)(3) or (4) of section 3767.01 Of the Revised Code shall obey such injunction. If such person violates such injunction, the court or in vacation a judge thereof, may summarily try and punish the violator. The proceedings for punishment for contempt shall be commenced by filing with the clerk of the court from which such injunction issued information under oath setting out the alleged facts constituting the violation, whereupon the court shall forthwith cause a warrant to issue under which the defendant shall be arrested. The trial may be had upon affidavits, or either party may demand the production and oral examination of the witnesses.
Sec. 4303.021.  Permit A-1-A may be issued to the holder of an A-1 or A-2 permit to sell beer and any intoxicating liquor at retail, only by the individual drink in glass or from a container, provided such A-1-A permit premises are situated on the same parcel or tract of land as the related A-1 or A-2 manufacturing permit premises or are separated therefrom only by public streets or highways or by other lands owned by the holder of the A-1 or A-2 permit and used by the holder in connection with or in promotion of the holder's A-1 or A-2 permit business. The fee for this permit is three thousand one hundred twenty-five dollars. The holder of an A-1-A permit may sell beer and any intoxicating liquor during the same hours as the holders of D-5 permits under this chapter or Chapter 4301. of the Revised Code or the rules of the liquor control commission and shall obtain a restaurant license pursuant to section 3732.03 of the Revised Code.
Except as otherwise provided in this section, no new A-1-A permit shall be issued to the holder of an A-1 or A-2 permit unless the sale of beer and intoxicating liquor under class D permits is permitted in the residence district precinct in which the A-1 or A-2 permit is located and, in the case of an A-2 permit, unless the holder of the A-2 permit manufactures or has a storage capacity of at least twenty-five thousand gallons of wine per year. The immediately preceding sentence does not prohibit the issuance of an A-1-A permit to an applicant for such a permit who is the holder of an A-1 permit and whose application was filed with the division of liquor control before June 1, 1994. The liquor control commission shall not restrict the number of A-1-A permits which may be located within a residence district. As used in this section, "residence district" has the same meaning as in section 4301.01 of the Revised Code precinct.
Sec. 4303.181.  (A) Permit D-5a may be issued either to the owner or operator of a hotel or motel required to be licensed under section 3731.03 of the Revised Code containing at least fifty rooms for registered transient guests, and which qualifies under the other requirements of this section, or to the owner or operator of a restaurant specified under this section to sell beer and any intoxicating liquor at retail, only by the individual drink in glass and from the container, for consumption on the premises where sold, and to registered guests in their rooms, which may be sold by means of a controlled access alcohol and beverage cabinet in accordance with division (B) of section 4301.21 of the Revised Code; and to sell the same products in the same manner and amounts not for consumption on the premises as may be sold by holders of D-1 and D-2 permits. The premises of the hotel or motel shall include a restaurant licensed pursuant to section 3732.03 of the Revised Code affiliated with the hotel or motel and within or contiguous to the hotel or motel, serving food within the hotel or motel, but the principal business of the owner or operator of the hotel or motel shall be the accommodation of transient guests. In addition to the privileges authorized herein, the holder of a D-5a permit may exercise the same privileges as the holder of a D-5 permit.
The owner or operator of a hotel, motel, or restaurant who qualified for and held a D-5a permit on August 4, 1976, may, if the owner or operator person held another permit before holding a D-5a permit, either retain a D-5a permit or apply for the permit formerly held, and the division of liquor control shall issue the permit for which the owner or operator person applies and formerly held, notwithstanding any quota.
A D-5a permit shall not be transferred to another location. No quota restriction shall be placed on the number of such permits which may be issued.
The fee for this permit is one thousand eight hundred seventy-five dollars.
(B) Permit D-5b may be issued to the owner, operator, tenant, lessee, or occupant of an enclosed shopping center to sell beer and intoxicating liquor at retail, only by the individual drink in glass and from the container, for consumption on the premises where sold; and to sell the same products in the same manner and amount not for consumption on the premises as may be sold by holders of D-1 and D-2 permits. In addition to the privileges authorized in this section, the holder of a D-5b permit may exercise the same privileges as a holder of a D-5 permit.
A D-5b permit shall not be transferred to another location.
One D-5b permit may be issued at an enclosed shopping center containing at least two hundred twenty-five thousand, but less than four hundred thousand, square feet of floor area.
Two D-5b permits may be issued at an enclosed shopping center containing at least four hundred thousand square feet of floor area. No more than one D-5b permit may be issued at an enclosed shopping center for each additional two hundred thousand square feet of floor area or fraction thereof, up to a maximum of five D-5b permits for each enclosed shopping center. The number of D-5b permits that may be issued at an enclosed shopping center shall be determined by subtracting the number of D-3 and D-5 permits issued in the enclosed shopping center from the number of D-5b permits that otherwise may be issued at the enclosed shopping center under the formulas provided in this division. Except as provided in this section, no quota shall be placed on the number of D-5b permits that may be issued. Notwithstanding any quota provided in this section, the holder of any D-5b permit first issued in accordance with this section is entitled to its renewal in accordance with section 4303.271 of the Revised Code.
The holder of a D-5b permit issued before April 4, 1984, whose tenancy is terminated for a cause other than nonpayment of rent, may return the D-5b permit to the division of liquor control and the division shall cancel that permit. Upon cancellation of that permit and upon the permit holder's payment of taxes, contributions, premiums, assessments, and other debts owing or accrued upon the date of cancellation to this state and its political subdivisions and a filing with the division of a certification thereof, the division shall issue to that person either a D-5 permit, or a D-1, a D-2, and a D-3 permit, as that person requests. The division shall issue the D-5 permit, or the D-1, D-2, and D-3 permits, even if the number of D-1, D-2, D-3, or D-5 permits currently issued in the municipal corporation or in the unincorporated area of the township where that person's proposed premises is located equals or exceeds the maximum number of such permits that can be issued in that municipal corporation or in the unincorporated area of that township under the population quota restrictions contained in section 4303.29 of the Revised Code. Any such D-1, D-2, D-3, or D-5 permit so issued shall not be transferred to another location. If a D-5b permit is canceled under the provisions of this paragraph, the number of D-5b permits that may be issued at the enclosed shopping center for which the D-5b permit was issued, under the formula provided in this division, shall be reduced by one if the enclosed shopping center was entitled to more than one D-5b permit under the formula.
The fee for this permit is one thousand eight hundred seventy-five dollars.
(C) Permit D-5c may be issued either to the owner or operator of a restaurant licensed pursuant to section 3732.03 of the Revised Code, and which qualifies under the other requirements of this section to sell beer and any intoxicating liquor at retail, only by the individual drink in glass and from the container, for consumption on the premises where sold, and to sell the same products in the same manner and amounts not for consumption on the premises as may be sold by holders of D-1 and D-2 permits. In addition to the privileges authorized herein, the holder of a D-5c permit may exercise the same privileges as the holder of a D-5 permit.
To qualify for a D-5c permit, the owner or operator of a restaurant licensed pursuant to section 3732.03 of the Revised Code shall have operated the restaurant at the proposed premises for not less than twenty-four consecutive months immediately preceding the filing of an application therefor, have applied for a D-5 permit no later than December 31, 1988, and appear on the division's quota waiting list for not less than six months immediately preceding the filing of an application therefor. In addition to these requirements, the proposed D-5c permit premises shall be located within a municipal corporation and further within an election precinct which, at the time of the applications, has no more than twenty-five per cent of its total land area zoned for residential use.
A D-5c permit shall not be transferred to another location. No quota restriction shall be placed on the number of such permits which may be issued.
Any person who has held a D-5c permit for at least two years may apply for a D-5 permit, and the division of liquor control shall issue the D-5 permit notwithstanding the quota restrictions contained in section 4303.29 of the Revised Code or in any rule of the liquor control commission.
The fee for this permit is one thousand two hundred fifty dollars.
(D) Permit D-5d may be issued to either the owner or operator of a restaurant that is licensed pursuant to section 3732.03 of the Revised Code and located at an airport operated by a board of county commissioners pursuant to section 307.20 of the Revised Code or at an airport operated by a regional airport authority pursuant to Chapter 308. of the Revised Code. Not more than one D-5d permit shall be issued in each county. The holder of a D-5d permit may sell beer and any intoxicating liquor at retail, only by the individual drink in glass and from the container, for consumption on the premises where sold, and may sell the same products in the same manner and amounts not for consumption on the premises where sold as may be sold by the holders of D-1 and D-2 permits. In addition to the privileges authorized in this division, the holder of a D-5d permit may exercise the same privileges as the holder of a D-5 permit.
A D-5 D-5d permit shall not be transferred to another location. Except as otherwise provided in this division, no quota restrictions shall be placed on the number of such permits which may be issued.
The fee for this permit is one thousand eight hundred seventy-five dollars.
(E) Permit D-5e may be issued to any nonprofit organization that is exempt from federal income taxation under "The Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C.A. 501(c)(3), as amended, or that is a charitable organization under any chapter of the Revised Code, and that owns or operates a riverboat which meets all of the following:
(1) Is permanently docked at one location;
(2) Is designated as a an historical riverboat by the Ohio historical society;
(3) Contains not less than fifteen hundred square feet of floor area;
(4) Has a seating capacity of fifty or more persons.
The holder of a D-5e permit may sell beer and intoxicating liquor at retail, only by the individual drink in glass and from the container, for consumption on the premises where sold.
A D-5e permit shall not be transferred to another location. No quota restriction shall be placed on the number of such permits which may be issued. The population quota restrictions contained in section 4303.29 of the Revised Code or in any rule of the liquor control commission shall not apply to this division and the division shall issue a D-5e permit to any applicant who meets the requirements of this division. However, the division shall not issue a D-5e permit if the permit premises or proposed permit premises are located within an area in which the sale of spirituous liquor by the glass is prohibited.
The fee for this permit is nine hundred seventy-five dollars.
(F) Permit D-5f may be issued to either the owner or the operator of a food service operation licensed under section 3732.03 of the Revised Code that meets all of the following:
(1) Contains not less than twenty-five hundred square feet of floor area;
(2) Is located on or in, or immediately adjacent to, the shoreline of, a navigable river;
(3) Provides docking space for twenty-five boats;
(4) Provides entertainment and recreation, provided that not less than fifty per cent of the business on the permit premises shall be preparing and serving meals for a consideration.
In addition, each application for a D-5f permit shall be accompanied by a certification from the local legislative authority that the issuance of the D-5f permit is not inconsistent with that political subdivision's comprehensive development plan or other economic development goal as officially established by the local legislative authority.
The holder of a D-5f permit may sell beer and intoxicating liquor at retail, only by the individual drink in glass and from the container, for consumption on the premises where sold.
A D-5f permit shall not be transferred to another location. No more than fifteen D-5f permits shall be issued by the division of liquor control, and no more than two such permits shall be issued in any county. However, the division shall not issue a D-5f permit if the permit premises or proposed permit premises are located within an area in which the sale of spirituous liquor by the glass is prohibited.
A fee for this permit is one thousand eight hundred seventy-five dollars.
As used in this division, "navigable river" means a river which is also a "navigable water" as that term is defined in the "Federal Power Act," 94 Stat. 770 (1980), 16 U.S.C. 796.
(G) Permit D-5g may be issued to a nonprofit corporation that is either the owner or the operator of a national professional sports museum. The holder of a D-5g permit may sell beer and any intoxicating liquor at retail, only by the individual drink in glass and from the container, for consumption on the premises where sold. The holder of a D-5g permit shall sell no beer or intoxicating liquor for consumption on the premises where sold after one a.m. A D-5g permit shall not be transferred to another location. No quota restrictions shall be placed on the number of D-5g permits that may be issued. The fee for this permit is one thousand five hundred dollars.
(H) Permit D-5h may be issued to any nonprofit organization that is exempt from federal income taxation under the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C.A. 501(c)(3), as amended, that owns or operates a fine arts museum and has no less than five thousand bona fide members possessing full membership privileges. The holder of a D-5h permit may sell beer and any intoxicating liquor at retail, only by the individual drink in glass and from the container, for consumption on the premises where sold. The holder of a D-5h permit shall sell no beer or intoxicating liquor for consumption on the premises where sold after one a.m. A D-5h permit shall not be transferred to another location. No quota restrictions shall be placed on the number of D-5h permits that may be issued. The fee for this permit is one thousand five hundred dollars.
(I) Permit D-5i may be issued to either the owner or the operator of a food service operation licensed under section 3732.03 of the Revised Code that meets all of the following requirements:
(1) It is located in a municipal corporation or a township with a population of fifty thousand or less;
(2) It has inside seating capacity for at least one hundred eighty forty persons;
(3) It has at least seven five thousand square feet of floor area;
(4) It offers full-course meals, appetizers, and sandwiches;
(5) Its receipts from beer and liquor sales do not exceed twenty-five per cent of its total gross receipts;
(6) The value of its real and personal property exceeds one million three nine hundred twenty-five thousand dollars.
The holder of a D-5i permit shall cause an independent audit to be performed at the end of one full year of operation following issuance of the permit, in order to verify the requirements of division (I)(5) of this section. The results of the independent audit shall be transmitted to the division. Upon determining that the receipts of the holder from beer and liquor sales exceeded twenty-five per cent of its total gross receipts, the division shall suspend the permit of the permit holder under section 4301.25 of the Revised Code and may allow the permit holder to elect a forfeiture under section 4301.252 of the Revised Code.
The holder of a D-5i permit may sell beer and any intoxicating liquor at retail, only by the individual drink in glass and from the container, for consumption on the premises where sold, and may sell the same products in the same manner and amounts not for consumption on the premises where sold as may be sold by the holders of D-1 and D-2 permits. The holder of a D-5i permit shall sell no beer or intoxicating liquor for consumption on the premises where sold after two-thirty a.m. In addition to the privileges authorized in division (I) of this section, the holder of a D-5i permit may exercise the same privileges as the holder of a D-5 permit.
A D-5i permit shall not be transferred to another location. The division of liquor control shall not renew a D-5i permit unless the food service operation for which it is issued continues to meet the requirements described in divisions (I)(1) to (6) of this section. No quota restrictions shall be placed on the number of D-5i permits that may be issued. The fee for this permit is one thousand eight hundred seventy-five dollars.
Sec. 4303.202.  (A) The division of liquor control may issue an F-2 permit to an association or corporation, or to a recognized subordinate lodge, chapter, or other local unit of an association or corporation, to sell beer or intoxicating liquor by the individual drink at an event to be held on premises located in a political subdivision or part thereof where the sale of beer or intoxicating liquor on that day is otherwise permitted by law.
The division of liquor control may issue an F-2 permit to an association or corporation, or to a recognized subordinate lodge, chapter, or other local unit of an association or CORPORATION, to sell beer, wine, and spirituous liquor by the individual drink at an event to be held on premises located in a political subdivision or part thereof where the sale of beer and wine, but not spirituous liquor, is otherwise permitted by law on that day.
Notwithstanding section 1711.09 of the Revised Code, this section applies to any association or corporation or a recognized subordinate lodge, Chapter, or other local unit of an association or corporation.
In order to receive an F-2 permit, the association, corporation, or local unit shall be organized not for profit, shall be operated for a charitable, cultural, fraternal, or educational purpose, and shall not be affiliated with the holder of any class of liquor permit, other than a D-4 permit.
The premises on which the permit is to be used shall be clearly defined and sufficiently restricted to allow proper supervision of the permit use by state and local law enforcement personnel. An F-2 permit may be issued for the same premises for which another class of permit is issued.
No F-2 permit shall be effective for more than forty-eight consecutive hours, and sales shall be confined to the same hours permitted to the holder of a D-3 permit. The division shall not issue more than two F-2 permits in one calendar year to the same association, corporation, or local unit of an association or corporation. The fee for an F-2 permit is seventy-five dollars.
If an applicant wishes the holder of a D-3, D-4, or D-5 permit to conduct the sale of beer and intoxicating liquor at the event, the applicant may request that the F-2 permit be issued jointly to the association, corporation, or local unit and the D-permit holder. If a permit is issued jointly, the association, corporation, or local unit and the D-permit holder shall both be held responsible for any conduct that violates laws pertaining to the sale of alcoholic beverages, including sales by the D-permit holder; otherwise, the association, corporation, or local unit shall be held responsible. In addition to the permit fee paid by the association, corporation, or local unit, the D-permit holder shall pay a fee of ten dollars. A D-permit holder may receive an unlimited number of joint F-2 permits.
Any association, corporation, or local unit applying for an F-2 permit shall file with the application a statement of the organizational purpose of the association, corporation, or local unit, the location and purpose of the event, and a list of its officers. The application form shall contain a notice that a person who knowingly makes a false statement on the application or statement is guilty of the crime of falsification, a misdemeanor of the first degree. In ruling on an application, the division shall consider, among other things, the past activities of the association, corporation, or local unit and any D-permit holder while operating under other F-2 permits, the location of the event for which the current application is made, and any objections of local residents or law enforcement authorities. If the division approves the application, it shall send copies of the approved application to the proper law enforcement authorities prior to the scheduled event.
Using the procedures of Chapter 119. of the Revised Code, the liquor control commission may adopt such rules as are necessary to administer this section.
(B) No association, corporation, local unit of an association or corporation, or D-permit holder who holds an F-2 permit shall sell beer or intoxicating liquor beyond the hours of sale allowed by the permit. This division imposes strict liability on the holder of such permit and on any officer, agent, or employee of such permit holder.
Sec. 4303.26.  (A) Applications for regular permits authorized by sections 4303.02 to 4303.23 of the Revised Code may be filed with the division of liquor control. No permit shall be issued by the division until fifteen days after the application for it is filed. An applicant for the issuance of a new permit shall pay a processing fee of one hundred dollars when filing application for the permit, if the permit is then available, or shall pay the processing fee when a permit becomes available, if it is not available when the applicant initially files the application. When an application for a new class C or D permit is filed, when class C or D permits become available, or when an application for transfer of ownership of a class C or D permit or transfer of a location of a class C or D permit is filed, no permit shall be issued, nor shall the location or the ownership of a permit be transferred, by the division until the division notifies the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, if the business or event is or is to be located within the corporate limits of a municipal corporation, or the clerk of the board of county commissioners and township trustees in the county in which the business or event is or is to be conducted, if the business is or is to be located outside the corporate limits of a municipal corporation, and an opportunity is provided officials or employees of the municipal corporation or county and township, who shall be designated by the legislative authority of the municipal corporation or the board of county commissioners or township trustees, for a complete hearing upon the advisability of the issuance, transfer of ownership, or transfer of location of the permit. In this hearing, no objection to the issuance, transfer of ownership, or transfer of location of the permit shall be based upon noncompliance of the proposed permit premises with local zoning regulations which prohibit the sale of beer or intoxicating liquor, in an area zoned for commercial or industrial uses, for a permit premises that would otherwise qualify for a proper permit issued by the division.
When the division sends notice to the legislative or executive authority of the political subdivision, as required by this section, the division shall also so notify, by certified mail, return receipt requested, or by personal service, the chief peace officer of the political subdivision. Upon the request of the chief peace officer, the division shall send the chief peace officer a copy of the application for the issuance or the transfer of ownership or location of the permit and all other documents or materials filed by the applicant or applicants in relation to the application. The chief peace officer may appear and testify, either in person or through a representative, at any hearing held on the advisability of the issuance, transfer of ownership, or transfer of location of the permit. The hearing shall be held in the central office of the division, except that upon written request of the legislative authority of the municipal corporation or the board of county commissioners or township trustees, the hearing shall be held in the county seat of the county where the applicant's business is or is to be conducted.
If the business or event specified in an application for the issuance, transfer of ownership, or transfer of location of any regular permit authorized by sections 4303.02 to 4303.23 of the Revised Code, except for an F-2 permit, is, or is to be operated, within five hundred feet from the boundaries of a parcel of real estate having situated on it a school, church, library, public playground, or township park, no permit shall be issued, nor shall the location or the ownership of a permit be transferred, by the division until written notice of the filing of the application with the division is served, by certified mail, return receipt requested, or by personal service, upon the authorities in control of the school, church, library, public playground, or township park and an opportunity is provided them for a complete hearing upon the advisability of the issuance, transfer of ownership, or transfer of location of the permit. In this hearing, no objection to the issuance, transfer of ownership, or transfer of location of the permit shall be based upon the noncompliance of the proposed permit premises with local zoning regulations which prohibit the sale of beer or intoxicating liquor, in an area zoned for commercial or industrial uses, for a permit premises that would otherwise qualify for a proper permit issued by the division. Upon the written request of any such authorities, the hearing shall be held in the county seat of the county where the applicant's business is or is to be conducted.
A request for any hearing authorized by this section shall be made no later than thirty days from the time of notification by the division. This thirty-day period begins on the date the division mails notice to the legislative authority or the date on which the division mails notice to or, by personal service, serves notice upon, the institution. The division shall conduct a hearing if the request for the hearing is postmarked by the deadline date. The division may allow, upon cause shown by the requesting legislative authority or board, an extension of thirty additional days for the legislative authority of the municipal corporation, board of township trustees of the township, or board of county commissioners of the county in which a permit premises is or is to be located to object to the issuance, transfer of ownership, or transfer of location of a permit. Such request for the extension shall be made by the legislative authority or board to the division no later than thirty days after the time of notification by the division.
(B)(1) When an application for transfer of ownership of a permit is filed with the division, the division shall give notice of the application to the department of taxation. Within twenty days after receiving this notification, the department of taxation shall notify the division of liquor control and the proposed transferee of the permit if the permit holder owes to this state any delinquent sales taxes or income taxes withheld from employee compensation or has failed to file any sales tax returns or employee income tax withholding returns, to the extent that such delinquent taxes and delinquent returns are known to the department of taxation at that time. The division shall not transfer ownership of the permit until returns known to be delinquent are filed and until any such tax or withholding delinquency is resolved. As used in this division, "resolved" means that the tax or withholding delinquency has been paid or an amount sufficient to satisfy the delinquency is in escrow for the benefit of the state. The department of taxation shall notify the division of the resolution. After the division has received such notification from the department of taxation, the division may proceed to transfer ownership of the permit. Nothing in this division shall be construed to affect or limit the responsibilities or liabilities of the transferor or the transferee imposed by Chapter 5739. or 5747. of the Revised Code.
(2) Notwithstanding section 5703.21 of the Revised Code, nothing prohibits the department of taxation from disclosing to the division or to the proposed transferee or the proposed transferee's designated agent any information pursuant to division (B)(1) of this section.
(C) No F or F-2 permit shall be issued for an event until the applicant has, by means of a form that the division shall provide to the applicant, notified the chief peace officer of the political subdivision in which the event will be conducted of the date, time, place, and duration of the event.
(D) The division of liquor control shall notify an applicant for a permit authorized by sections 4303.02 to 4303.23 of the Revised Code of an action pending or judgment entered against a liquor permit premises, of which the division has knowledge, pursuant to sections 3767.03 and 3767.05 of the Revised Code if the applicant is applying for a permit at the location of the premises that is the subject of the action under sections 3767.03 and 3767.05 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 4303.261.  If a permit issued under this chapter is canceled as the result of an election held under sections 4301.32 to 4301.41 or section 4305.14 of the Revised Code and the permit premises for that permit is in a building located in more than one election precinct or residence district, the division of liquor control shall not transfer that permit or another permit of the same class, or issue another permit of the same class, to a premises in another part of the same building that is not located in the precinct or residence district in which the local option election was held, until the results of a subsequent local option election held in that precinct or residence district allow the issuance or transfer of location of the permit in that precinct or residence district.
Sec. 4303.29.  (A) No permit, other than an H permit, shall be issued to a firm or partnership unless all the members of said firm or partnership are citizens of the United States and a majority have resided in this state for one year prior to application for such permit. No permit, other than an H permit, shall be issued to an individual who is not a citizen of the United States who has resided in this state for at least one year prior to application for such permit. No permit, other than an E or H permit, shall be issued to any corporation organized under the laws of any country, territory, or state other than Ohio until it has furnished the division of liquor control with evidence that it has complied with the laws of this state relating to the transaction of business in this state.
The division may refuse to issue any permit to or refuse to renew any permit of any person convicted of any felony that is reasonably related to the person's fitness to operate a liquor permit business in this state. No holder of a permit shall sell, assign, transfer, or pledge such permit, without the written consent of the division.
(B)(1) No more than one of each type of C or D permits shall be issued to any one person, firm, or corporation in any county having a population of less than twenty-five thousand, and no more than one of each type of C or D permits to any one person, firm, or corporation for any additional twenty-five thousand or major fraction thereof in any county having a greater population than twenty-five thousand, provided that in the case of D-3, D-3a, D-4, and D-5 permits no more than one permit shall be issued to any one person, firm, or corporation in any county having a population of less than fifty thousand, and no more than one such permit to any one person, firm, or corporation for any additional fifty thousand or major fraction thereof in any county having a greater population than fifty thousand.
(2) No D-3 permit shall be issued to any club unless such club has been continuously engaged in the activity specified in section 4303.15 of the Revised Code, as a qualification for such class of permit, for two years at the time such permit is issued.
(3)(a) Subject to division (B)(3)(b) of this section, upon application by properly qualified persons, one C-1 and C-2 permit shall be issued for each one thousand population or part thereof, and one D-1 and D-2 permit shall be issued for each two thousand population or part thereof, in each municipal corporation and in the unincorporated area of each township.
Subject to division (B)(3)(b) of this section, not more than one D-3, D-4, or D-5 permit shall be issued for each two thousand population, or part thereof, in any municipal corporation and in the unincorporated area of any township, except that in any city of a population of fifty-five thousand or more one D-3 permit may be issued for each fifteen hundred population, or part thereof.
(b) Nothing in division (B)(3)(a) of this section shall be construed to prohibit the transfer of location or the transfer of ownership and location of a C-1, C-2, D-1, D-2, D-3, or D-5 permit from a municipal corporation or the unincorporated area of a township in which the number of permits of that class exceeds the number of such permits authorized to be issued under division (B)(3)(a) of this section to an economic development project located in another municipal corporation or the unincorporated area of another township in which no additional permits of that class may be issued under division (B)(3)(a) of this section.
Factors that shall be used to determine the designation of an economic development project include, but are not limited to, architectural certification of the plans and the cost of the project, the number of jobs that will be created by the project, projected earnings of the project, projected tax revenues for the political subdivisions in which the project will be located, and the amount of financial investment in the project. The superintendent of liquor control shall determine whether the existing or proposed business that is seeking a permit described in division (B)(3)(b) of this section qualifies as an economic development project and, if the superintendent determines that it so qualifies, shall designate the business as an economic development project.
(4) Nothing in this section shall be construed to restrict the issuance of a permit to a municipal corporation for use at a municipally owned airport at which commercial airline companies operate regularly scheduled flights on which space is available to the public. A municipal corporation applying for a permit for such a municipally owned airport is exempt, in regard to that application, from the population restrictions contained in this section and from population quota restrictions contained in any rule of the liquor control commission. A municipal corporation applying for a D-1, D-2, D-3, D-4, or D-5 permit for such a municipally owned airport is subject to section 4303.31 of the Revised Code.
(5) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the issuance of a D permit to the board of trustees of a soldiers' memorial for a premises located at a soldiers' memorial established pursuant to Chapter 345. of the Revised Code. An application for a D permit by such a board for such a premises is exempt from the population restrictions contained in this section and from the population quota restrictions contained in any rule of the liquor control commission. The location of a D permit issued to the board of trustees of a soldiers' memorial for a premises located at a soldiers' memorial shall not be transferred. A board of trustees of a soldiers' memorial applying for a D-1, D-2, D-3, D-4, or D-5 permit for such a soldiers' memorial is subject to section 4303.31 of the Revised Code.
(6) Nothing in this section shall be construed to restrict the issuance of a permit for a premises located at a golf course owned by a municipal corporation, township, or county, owned by a park district created under Chapter 1545. of the Revised Code, or owned by the state. The location of such a permit issued on or after September 26, 1984, for a premises located at such a golf course shall not be transferred. Any application for such a permit is exempt from the population quota restrictions contained in this section and from the population quota restrictions contained in any rule of the liquor control commission. A municipal corporation, township, county, park district, or state agency applying for a D-1, D-2, D-3, D-4, or D-5 permit for such a golf course is subject to section 4303.31 of the Revised Code.
(7) As used in division (B)(7) of this section, "fair" has the same meaning as in section 991.01 of the Revised Code, "state fairgrounds" means the property that is held by the state for the purpose of conducting fairs, expositions, and exhibits and that is maintained and managed by the Ohio expositions commission under section 991.03 of the Revised Code, and "capitol square" has the same meaning as in section 105.41 of the Revised Code.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to restrict the issuance of one or more D permits to one or more applicants for all or a part of either the state fairgrounds or capitol square. An application for a D permit for the state fairgrounds or capitol square is exempt from the population quota restrictions contained in this section and from the population quota restrictions contained in any rule of the liquor control commission. The location of a D permit issued for the state fairgrounds or capitol square shall not be transferred. An applicant for a D-1, D-2, D-3, or D-5 permit for the state fairgrounds is not subject to section 4303.31 of the Revised Code.
Pursuant to section 1711.09 of the Revised Code, the holder of a D permit issued for the state fairgrounds shall not deal in spirituous liquor at the state fairgrounds during, or for one week before or for three days after, any fair held at the state fairgrounds.
(8) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the issuance of a D permit for a premises located at a zoological park at which sales have been approved in an election held under former section 4301.356 of the Revised Code. An application for a D permit for such a premises is exempt from the population restrictions contained in this section, from the population quota restrictions contained in any rule of the liquor control commission, and from section 4303.31 of the Revised Code. The location of a D permit issued for a premises at such a zoological park shall not be transferred, and no quota or other restrictions shall be placed on the number of D permits that may be issued for a premises at such a zoological park.
(C)(1) As used in this division, "residence district" has the same meaning as in section 4301.01 of the Revised Code.
(2) No D-3, D-4, D-5, or D-5a permit shall be issued in any election precinct or residence district in any municipal corporation or in any election precinct or residence district in the unincorporated area of any township, in which at the November, 1933, election a majority of the electors voting thereon in the municipal corporation or in the unincorporated area of the township voted against the repeal of Section 9 of Article XV, Ohio Constitution, unless the sale of spirituous liquor by the glass is authorized by a majority vote of the electors voting on the question in the precinct or residence district at an election held pursuant to this section or by a majority vote of the electors of the precinct or residence district voting on question (C) at a special local option election held in the precinct or residence district pursuant to section 4301.35 of the Revised Code. Upon the request of an elector, the board of elections of the county that encompasses the precinct or the residence district shall furnish the elector with a copy of the instructions prepared by the secretary of state under division (P) of section 3501.05 of the Revised Code and, within fifteen days after the request, a certificate of the number of signatures required for a valid petition under this section.
Upon the petition of thirty-five per cent of the total number of voters voting in any such precinct or residence district for the office of governor at the preceding general election, filed with the board of elections of the county in which such precinct or the residence district is located not later than seventy-five days before a general election, such board shall prepare ballots and hold an election at such general election upon the question of allowing spirituous liquor to be sold by the glass in such precinct or residence district. Such ballots shall be approved in form by the secretary of state. The results of such election shall be certified by the board to the secretary of state, who shall certify the same to the division.
(3)(2) No holder of a class D-3 permit issued for a boat or vessel shall sell spirituous liquor in any precinct, in which the election provided for in this section may be held, unless the sale of such liquor by the drink has been authorized by vote of the electors as provided in this section or in section 4301.35 of the Revised Code.
(D) Any holder of a C or D permit whose permit premises were purchased in 1986 or 1987 by the state of Ohio or any state agency for highway purposes shall be issued the same permit at another location notwithstanding any quota restrictions contained in this chapter or in any rule of the liquor control commission.
Sec. 4303.292.  (A) The division of liquor control may refuse to issue, transfer the ownership of, or renew, and shall refuse to transfer the location of any retail permit issued under this chapter if it finds:
(1) That the applicant, any partner, member, officer, director, or manager thereof, or any shareholder owning ten per cent or more of its capital stock:
(a) Has been convicted at any time of a crime which relates to fitness to operate a liquor establishment;
(b) Has operated liquor permit businesses in a manner that demonstrates a disregard for the laws, regulations, or local ordinances of this state or any other state;
(c) Has misrepresented a material fact in applying to the division for a permit;
(d) Is in the habit of using alcoholic beverages or dangerous drugs to excess, or is addicted to the use of narcotics.
(2) That the place for which the permit is sought:
(a) Does not conform to the building, safety, or health requirements of the governing body of the county or municipality in which the place is located. As used in division (A)(2)(a) of this section, "building, safety, or health requirements" does not include local zoning ordinances. The validity of local zoning regulations shall not be affected by this section.
(b) Is so constructed or arranged that law enforcement officers and duly authorized agents of the division are prevented from reasonable access to rooms within which beer or intoxicating liquor is to be sold or consumed.
(c) Is so located with respect to the neighborhood that substantial interference with public decency, sobriety, peace or good order would result from the issuance, renewal, transfer of location, or transfer of ownership of the permit and operation thereunder by the applicant.
(d) Has been declared a nuisance pursuant to Chapter 3767. of the Revised Code since the time of the most recent issuance, renewal, or transfer of ownership or location of the liquor permit.
(B) The division of liquor control may refuse to issue or transfer the ownership of, and shall refuse to transfer the location of any retail permit issued under this chapter if it finds:
(1) That the place for which the permit is sought is so situated with respect to any school, church, library, public playground, or hospital that the operation of the liquor establishment will substantially and adversely affect or interfere with the normal, orderly conduct of the affairs of those facilities or institutions.
(2) That the number of permits already existent in the neighborhood is such that the issuance or transfer of location of a permit would be detrimental to and substantially interfere with the morals, safety, or welfare of the public, and, in reaching a conclusion in this respect, the department division shall consider, in light of the purposes of Chapters 4301., 4303., and 4399. of the Revised Code, the character and population of the neighborhood, the number and location of similar permits in the neighborhood, the number and location of all other permits in the neighborhood, and the effect the issuance or transfer of location of a permit would have on the neighborhood.
(C) The department division of liquor control shall not transfer the location or transfer the ownership and location of a permit under division (B)(3)(b) of section 4303.29 of the Revised Code unless the permit is transferred to an economic development project.
(D) The division of liquor control shall refuse to issue, renew, transfer the ownership of, or transfer the location of a retail permit under this chapter if the applicant is or has been convicted of a violation of division (C)(1) of section 2913.46 of the Revised Code.
(E) The division of liquor control shall refuse to transfer the ownership of or transfer the location of a retail permit under this chapter while criminal proceedings are pending against the holder of the permit for a violation of division (C)(1) of section 2913.46 of the Revised Code. The department of human services shall notify the division of liquor control whenever criminal proceedings have commenced for a violation of division (C)(1) of section 2913.46 of the Revised Code.
(F)(1) The division shall refuse to issue, renew, or transfer the ownership or location of a retail permit under this chapter if the applicant has been found to be maintaining a nuisance at the premises for which the issuance, renewal, or transfer of ownership or location of the retail permit is sought under section 3767.03 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 4305.14.  (A) As used in this section, "residence district" has the same meaning as in section 4301.01 of the Revised Code.
(B) The following questions regarding the sale of beer by holders of C or D permits may be presented to the qualified electors of an election precinct or residence district:
(1) "Shall the sale of beer as defined in section 4305.08 of the Revised Code under permits which authorize sale for off-premises consumption only be permitted within this (precinct) (district)?"
(2) "Shall the sale of beer as defined in section 4305.08 of the Revised Code under permits which authorize sale for on-premises consumption only, and under permits which authorize sale for both on-premises and off-premises consumption, be permitted in this (precinct) (district)?"
The exact wording of the question as submitted and form of ballot as printed shall be determined by the board of elections in the county wherein the election is held, subject to approval of the secretary of state.
Upon the request of an elector, a board of elections of a county that encompasses an election precinct or residence district shall furnish to the elector a copy of the instructions prepared by the secretary of state under division (P) of section 3501.05 of the Revised Code and, within fifteen days after the request, with a certificate indicating the number of valid signatures that will be required on a petition to hold a special election in that precinct or residence district on either or both of the questions specified in this section.
The board shall provide to a petitioner, at the time the petitioner takes out a petition, the names of the streets and, if appropriate, the address numbers of residences and business establishments within the precinct or residence district in which the election is sought, and a form prescribed by the secretary of state for notifying affected permit holders of the circulation of a petition for an election for the submission of one or more of the questions specified in division (B)(A) of this section. The petitioner shall, not less than forty-five days before the petition-filing deadline for an election provided for in this section, file with the division of liquor control the information regarding names of streets and, if appropriate, address numbers of residences and business establishments provided by the board of elections, and specify to the division the precinct or residence district that is concerned or that would be affected by the results of the election and the filing deadline. The division shall, within a reasonable period of time and not later than fifteen days before the filing deadline, supply the petitioner with a list of the names and addresses of permit holders who would be affected by the election. The list shall contain a heading with the following words: "liquor permit holders who would be affected by the question(s) set forth on a petition for a local option election."
Within five days after receiving from the division the list of liquor permit holders who would be affected by the question or questions set forth on a petition for local option election, the petitioner shall, using the form provided by the board of elections, notify by certified mail each permit holder whose name appears on that list. The form for notifying affected permit holders shall require the petitioner to state the petitioner's name and street address and shall contain a statement that a petition is being circulated for an election for the submission of the question or questions specified in division (B) of this section. The form shall require the petitioner to state the question or questions to be submitted as they appear on the petition.
The petitioner shall attach a copy of the list provided by the division to each petition paper. A part petition paper circulated at any time without the list of affected permit holders attached to it is invalid.
At the time of filing the petition with the board of elections, the petitioner shall provide to the board of elections the list supplied by the division and an affidavit certifying that the petitioner notified all affected permit holders on the list in the manner and within the time required in this section and that, at the time each signer of the petition signed the petition, the petition paper contained a copy of the list of affected permit holders.
Within five days after receiving a petition calling for an election for the submission of the question or questions set forth in this section, the board of elections shall give notice by certified mail that it has received the petition to all liquor permit holders whose names appear on the list of affected permit holders filed by the petitioner as furnished by the division. Failure of the petitioner to supply the affidavit required by this section and a complete and accurate list of liquor permit holders as furnished by the division invalidates the entire petition. The board of elections shall provide to a permit holder who would be affected by a proposed local option election, on the permit holder's request, the names of the streets, and, if appropriate, the address numbers of residences and business establishments within the precinct or residence district in which the election is sought and that would be affected by the results of the election. The board may charge a reasonable fee for this information when provided to the petitioner and the permit holder.
Upon presentation not later than four p.m. of the seventy-fifth day before the day of a general or primary election, of a petition to the board of elections of the county wherein such election is sought to be held, requesting the holding of such election on either or both of the questions specified in this section, signed by qualified electors of the precinct or residence district concerned equal in number to thirty-five per cent of the total number of votes cast in the precinct concerned for the office of governor at the preceding general election for that office, in the case of an election within a single precinct, or equal in number to fifty-five per cent of the total number of votes cast in the residence district concerned for the office of governor at the preceding general election for that office, in the case of an election within a residence district, such board shall submit the question or questions specified in the petition to the electors of the precinct or residence district concerned, on the day of the next general or primary election, whichever occurs first.
(C)(B) The board shall proceed as follows:
(1) Such board shall, upon the filing of a petition under this section, but not later than the sixty-sixth day before the day of the election for which the question or questions on the petition would qualify for submission to the electors of the precinct or residence district, examine and determine the sufficiency of the signatures and review, examine, and determine the validity of such petition and, in case of overlapping precinct petitions or overlapping residence district petitions or overlapping precinct and residence district petitions presented within that period, determine which of the petitions shall govern the further proceedings of the board. In the case where the board determines that two or more overlapping petitions are valid, the earlier petition shall govern. The board shall certify the sufficiency of signatures contained in the petition as of the time of filing and the validity of any the petition determined to be valid. The board shall determine the validity of the petition as of the time of certification as described in division (B)(C)(1) of this section if the board finds the petition to be both sufficient and valid.
(2) If the petition contains sufficient signatures and is valid, and, in case of overlapping precinct petitions or overlapping residence district petitions or overlapping precinct and residence district petitions, after the board has determined the governing petition, the board shall order the holding of a special election in the precinct or residence district for the submission of the question or questions specified in the petition, on the day of the next general or primary election, whichever occurs first.
(3) All petitions filed with a board of elections under this section shall be open to public inspection under regulations rules adopted by the board.
(D)(C) Protest against a local option petition may be filed by any qualified elector eligible to vote on the question or questions specified in the petition or by a permit holder in the precinct or residence district as described in the petition, not later than four p.m. of the sixty-fourth day before the day of such general or primary election for which the petition qualified. Such protest must shall be in writing and shall be filed with the election officials with whom the petition was filed. Upon filing of such protest the election officials with whom it is filed shall promptly fix the time for hearing the same it, and shall forthwith mail notice of the filing of the protest and the time for hearing it to the person who filed the petition which is protested and to the person who filed the protest. At the time and place fixed, the election officials shall hear the protest and determine the validity of the petition.
(E)(D) If a majority of the electors voting on the question in the precinct or residence district vote "yes" on question (1) or (2) as set forth in division (B)(A) of this section, the sale of beer as specified in that question shall be permitted in the precinct or residence district and no subsequent election shall be held in the precinct or residence district under this section on the same question for a period of at least two years from the date of the most recent election.
If a majority of the electors voting on the question in the precinct or residence district vote "no" on question (1) or (2) as set forth in division (B)(A) of this section, no C or D permit holder shall sell beer as specified in that question within the precinct or residence district during the period the election is in effect and no subsequent election shall be held in the precinct or residence district under this section on the same question for a period of at least two years from the date of the most recent election.
Section 2.  That existing sections 119.12, 2933.41, 3767.01, 3767.03, 3767.05, 4301.01, 4301.25, 4301.252, 4301.32, 4301.321, 4301.322, 4301.33, 4301.331, 4301.332, 4301.34, 4301.35, 4301.351, 4301.352, 4301.353, 4301.354, 4301.36, 4301.361, 4301.362, 4301.363, 4301.364, 4301.37, 4301.39, 4301.40, 4301.401, 4301.74, 4303.021, 4303.181, 4303.202, 4303.26, 4303.261, 4303.29, 4303.292, and 4305.14 and sections 4301.211 and 4301.73 of the Revised Code are hereby repealed.
Section 3.  Section 4301.252 of the Revised Code is presented in this act as a composite of the section as amended by both Am. Sub. S.B. 2 and Am. Sub. S.B. 162 of the 121st General Assembly, with the new language of neither of the acts shown in capital letters. Section 4303.181 of the Revised Code is presented in this act as a composite of the section as amended by both Am. Sub. S.B. 149 and Am. Sub. S.B. 162 of the 121st General Assembly, with the new language of neither of the acts shown in capital letters. This is in recognition of the principle stated in division (B) of section 1.52 of the Revised Code that such amendments are to be harmonized where not substantively irreconcilable and constitutes a legislative finding that such are the resulting versions in effect prior to the effective date of this act.
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