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S. B. No. 73 As IntroducedAs Introduced
129th General Assembly | Regular Session | 2011-2012 |
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A BILL
To amend section 4301.20 of the Revised Code to allow
manufacturers of nonbeverage food products to
purchase at wholesale beer and intoxicating liquor
from A and B liquor permit holders.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
Section 1. That section 4301.20 of the Revised Code be
amended to read as follows:
Sec. 4301.20. This chapter and Chapter 4303. of the Revised
Code do not prevent the following:
(A) The storage of intoxicating liquor in bonded warehouses,
established in accordance with the acts of congress and under the
regulation of the United States, located in this state, or the
transportation of intoxicating liquor to or from bonded warehouses
of the United States wherever located;
(B) A bona fide resident of this state who is the owner of a
warehouse receipt from obtaining or transporting to the resident's
residence for the resident's own consumption and not for resale
spirituous liquor stored in a government bonded warehouse in this
state or in another state prior to December 1933, subject to such
terms as are prescribed by the division of liquor control;
(C) The manufacture of cider from fruit for the purpose of
making vinegar, and nonintoxicating cider and fruit juices for use
and sale;
(D) A licensed physician or dentist from administering or
dispensing intoxicating liquor or alcohol to a patient in good
faith in the actual course of the practice of the physician's or
dentist's profession;
(E) The sale of alcohol to physicians, dentists, druggists,
veterinary surgeons, manufacturers, hospitals, infirmaries, or
medical or educational institutions using the alcohol for
medicinal, mechanical, chemical, or scientific purposes;
(F) The sale, gift, or keeping for sale by druggists and
others of any of the medicinal preparations manufactured in
accordance with the formulas prescribed by the United States
Pharmacopoeia and National Formulary, patent or proprietary
preparations, and other bona fide medicinal and technical
preparations, which contain no more alcohol than is necessary to
hold the medicinal agents in solution and to preserve the same,
which are manufactured and sold as medicine and not as beverages,
are unfit for use for beverage purposes, and the sale of which
does not require the payment of a United States liquor dealer's
tax;
(G) The manufacture and sale of tinctures or of toilet,
medicinal, and antiseptic preparations and solutions not intended
for internal human use nor to be sold as beverages, and which are
unfit for beverage purposes, if upon the outside of each bottle,
box, or package of which there is printed in the English language,
conspicuously and legibly, the quantity by volume of alcohol in
the preparation or solution;
(H) The manufacture and keeping for sale of the food products
known as flavoring extracts when manufactured and sold for
cooking, culinary, or flavoring purposes, and which are unfit for
use for beverage purposes;
(I) The lawful sale of wood alcohol or of ethyl alcohol for
external use when combined with other substances as to make it
unfit for internal use;
(J) The manufacture, sale, and transport of ethanol or ethyl
alcohol for use as fuel. As used in this division, "ethanol" has
the same meaning as in section 5733.46 of the Revised Code.
(K) The purchase and importation into this state or the
purchase at wholesale from A or B permit holders in this state of
beer and intoxicating liquor for use in manufacturing processes of
nonbeverage food products under terms prescribed by the division,
provided that the terms prescribed by the division shall not
increase the cost of the beer or intoxicating liquor to any
person, firm, or corporation purchasing and importing it into this
state or purchasing it from an A or B permit holder for that use;
(L) Any resident of this state or any member of the armed
forces of the United States, who has attained the age of
twenty-one years, from bringing into this state, for personal use
and not for resale, not more than one liter of spirituous liquor
in any thirty-day period, and the same is free of any tax consent
fee when the resident or member of the armed forces physically
possesses and accompanies the spirituous liquor on returning from
a foreign country, another state, or an insular possession of the
United States;
(M) Persons, at least twenty-one years of age, who collect
ceramic commemorative bottles containing spirituous liquor that
have unbroken federal tax stamps on them from selling or trading
the bottles to other collectors. The bottles shall originally have
been purchased at retail from the division, legally imported under
division (L) of this section, or legally imported pursuant to a
supplier registration issued by the division. The sales shall be
for the purpose of exchanging a ceramic commemorative bottle
between private collectors and shall not be for the purpose of
selling the spirituous liquor for personal consumption. The sale
or exchange authorized by this division shall not occur on the
premises of any permit holder, shall not be made in connection
with the business of any permit holder, and shall not be made in
connection with any mercantile business.
(N) The sale of beer or intoxicating liquor without a liquor
permit at a private residence, not more than five times per
calendar year at a residence address, at an event that has the
following characteristics:
(1) The event is for a charitable, benevolent, or political
purpose, but shall not include any event the proceeds of which are
for the profit or gain of any individual;
(2) The event has in attendance not more than fifty people;
(3) The event shall be for a period not to exceed twelve
hours;
(4) The sale of beer and intoxicating liquor at the event
shall not take place between two-thirty a.m. and five-thirty a.m.;
(5) No person under twenty-one years of age shall purchase or
consume beer or intoxicating liquor at the event and no beer or
intoxicating liquor shall be sold to any person under twenty-one
years of age at the event; and
(6) No person at the event shall sell or furnish beer or
intoxicating liquor to an intoxicated person.
Section 2. That existing section 4301.20 of the Revised Code
is hereby repealed.
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