To amend section 4303.99 and to enact section 4303.208 of the Revised Code to authorize the F-8 liquor permit to be issued annually to certain nonprofit organizations to allow the sale of beer and intoxicating liquor at specific events that occur throughout the year on public space that the organization manages.

Section 1. That section 4303.99 be amended and section 4303.208 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:

Sec. 4303.208. (A)(1) The division of liquor control may issue an F-8 permit to a not-for-profit organization that manages, for the benefit of the public and by contract with a political subdivision of this state, publicly owned property to sell beer or intoxicating liquor by the individual drink at specific events conducted on the public space and contiguous public space that the organization manages.

(2) The premises on which an F-8 permit will be used shall be clearly defined and sufficiently restricted to allow proper supervision of the permit's use by state and local law enforcement officers. Sales under an F-8 permit shall be confined to the same hours permitted to the holder of a D-3 permit.

(3) The fee for an F-8 permit is one thousand dollars and an F-8 permit is effective for a one-year period. The holder of an F-8 permit shall make sales only at those specific events about which the permit holder has notified in advance the division of liquor control.

(B) The liquor control commission shall adopt under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code rules necessary to administer this section.

(C) No F-8 permit holder shall sell beer or intoxicating liquor beyond the hours of sale allowed by the permit. This division imposes strict liability on the holder of an F-8 permit and on any officer, agent, or employee of that permit holder.

Sec. 4303.99.  (A) Whoever violates section 4303.28 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than one thousand nor more than twenty-five hundred dollars or imprisoned not less than six months nor more than one year.

(B) Whoever violates section 4303.36 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars.

(C) Whoever violates section 4303.37 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than fifty dollars.

(D) Whoever violates division (B) of section 4303.202 or division (C) of section 4303.208 of the Revised Code is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.

Section 2. That existing section 4303.99 of the Revised Code is hereby repealed.