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Section 4399.02 | Liability of owner or lessee for injuries caused by intoxicated person.
Effective:
July 23, 2004
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 306 - 125th General Assembly
The owner of a building or premises, and the person renting or leasing them, if the owner or person knows that intoxicating liquors are to be sold in the building or premises in violation of law is severally or jointly liable with the person selling the intoxicating liquors for all damages sustained, as well as exemplary damages. |
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Section 4399.03 | Unlawful sale or gift of intoxicating liquors forfeits lease.
Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
The unlawful sale or gift of intoxicating liquors shall forfeit all rights of the lessee or tenant under any lease or contract of rent upon premises where such unlawful sale or gift takes place. |
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Section 4399.04 | Fines, costs, and damages lien upon the real estate.
Effective:
July 23, 2004
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 306 - 125th General Assembly
Fines, costs, and damages assessed against a person in consequence of the sale of intoxicating liquors, as provided in sections 4399.02 to 4399.08 of the Revised Code, and the penal statutes relating to the sale, shall be a lien upon the real estate of the person. The real estate and personal property of the person shall be liable to execution for the fines, costs, and damages without exception or exemption, except for personal property that is exempt by law. |
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Section 4399.05 | Liability of owner of building or premises for fines, costs, and damages.
Effective:
October 12, 2016
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly
As used in this section, "incompetent person" means a person who is so mentally impaired, as a result of a mental or physical illness or disability, as a result of an intellectual disability, or as a result of chronic substance abuse, that the person is incapable of taking proper care of the person's self or property or fails to provide for the person's family or other persons for whom the person is charged by law to provide. If a person rents or leases to another a building or premises to be used or occupied, in whole or in part, for the sale of intoxicating liquors, or permits such building or premises to be so used or occupied, such building or premises shall be liable for and may be sold to pay all fines, costs, and damages assessed against a person occupying them. Proceedings may be had to subject them to the payment of such fine and costs assessed or judgment recovered, or part remaining unpaid, either before or after execution issues against the property of the person against whom such fine and costs or judgment have been adjudged or assessed. When execution issues against the property leased or rented, the officer shall proceed to satisfy it out of the building or premises so leased or occupied. If such building or premises belong to a minor or incompetent person, the guardian having control thereof shall be liable and account to the guardian's ward for all damages on account of such use and occupation, and the liabilities for such fines, costs, and damages. |
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Section 4399.06 | Lease void where premises used for sale of intoxicating liquors contrary to law.
Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
All contracts whereby any building or premises are rented, leased, used, or occupied shall become void when such building or premises are used, in whole or in part, for the sale of intoxicating liquors contrary to law, and the lessor, on and after the sale or gift of intoxicating liquors, shall be held to be in possession of such building or premises. Last updated March 9, 2022 at 4:06 PM |
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Section 4399.07 | Damages recovered by a minor.
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Section 4399.08 | Suit for damages.
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Section 4399.09 | Keeping place where beer or intoxicating liquors are sold, furnished, or given away in violation of law.
Effective:
October 11, 2002
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 371 - 124th General Assembly
(A) No person shall keep a place where beer or intoxicating liquors are sold, furnished, or given away in violation of law. The court, on conviction for a subsequent violation of this section, shall order the place where the beer or intoxicating liquor is sold, furnished, or given away to be abated as a nuisance or shall order the person so convicted to give bond payable to the state in the sum of one thousand dollars, with sureties to the acceptance of the court, that the person will not sell, furnish, or give away beer or intoxicating liquor in violation of law and will pay all fines, costs, and damages assessed against the person for that subsequent violation of this section. The giving away of beer or intoxicating liquors, or any other device to evade this division, constitutes unlawful selling. As used in this division, "beer" has the same meaning as in section 4301.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Division (A) of this section does not apply to any premises for which a permit has been issued under Chapter 4303. of the Revised Code while that permit is in effect. |
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Section 4399.10 | Sale, exchange, or gift of intoxicating liquor in brothel.
Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
No person shall sell, exchange, or give away intoxicating liquor in a brothel. |
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Section 4399.11 | Sale of intoxicating liquor near certain institutions prohibited.
Effective:
September 29, 1995
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 2, House Bill 117 - 121st General Assembly
If a person is convicted of any violation of Title XLIII of the Revised Code that involves the sale of intoxicating liquors at or within twelve hundred yards of the administration or main central building of the Columbus state hospital, Dayton state hospital, Athens state hospital, or Toledo state hospital, within two miles of the place at which an agricultural fair is being held, or within one mile of a county children's home situated within one mile of a municipal corporation in which the sale of intoxicating liquors is prohibited by ordinance, the place in which the intoxicating liquors are sold shall be shut up and abated as a nuisance by order of the court upon conviction of its owner or keeper. The Legislative Service Commission presents the text of this section as a composite of the section as amended by multiple acts of the General Assembly. This presentation recognizes the principle stated in R.C. 1.52(B) that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation. |
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Section 4399.12 | Sale of intoxicating liquor near certain institutions prohibited - exceptions.
Effective:
September 1, 2008
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 150 - 127th General Assembly
No provision contained in Title XLIII of the Revised Code that prohibits the sale of intoxicating liquors in any of the circumstances described in section 4399.11 of the Revised Code extends to or prevents the holder of an A, B, C-2, D-2, D-3, D-3a, D-4, D-4a, D-5, D-5a, D-5b, D-5e, D-5f, D-5g, D-5h, D-5i, D-5j, D-5k, D-5l, D-5m, G, or I permit issued by the division of liquor control from distributing or selling intoxicating liquor at the place of business described in the permit of the holder. |
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Section 4399.14 | Public dance hall - use of intoxicating liquor.
Effective:
September 21, 2006
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 368 - 126th General Assembly
(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, no person who is the proprietor of or who conducts, manages, or is in charge of any public dance hall shall allow the use of any intoxicating liquor or the presence of intoxicated persons in the public dance hall or on the premises on which it is located. (B) The prohibition against the use of any intoxicating liquor contained in division (A) of this section does not apply to establishments that are holders of a D-1, D-2, D-3, D-4, or D-5 permit whose principal business consists of conducting a hotel, a restaurant, a club, or a night club, all as defined in section 4301.01 of the Revised Code. |
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Section 4399.15 | Adulterated spirituous liquor, alcoholic liquor, or beer.
Effective:
October 24, 2024
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 94 - 135th General Assembly
No person, for the purpose of sale, shall adulterate spirituous liquor, alcoholic liquor, or beer used or intended for drink or medicinal or mechanical purposes, with cocculus indicus, vitriol, opium, alum, capsicum, copperas, laurel water, logwood, Brazilwood, cochineal, sugar of lead, aloes, glucose, tannic acid, or any other substance that is poisonous or injurious to health, or with a substance not a necessary ingredient in the manufacture of the spirituous liquor, alcoholic liquor, or beer, or sell, offer, or keep for sale spirituous liquor, alcoholic liquor, or beer that is so adulterated. In addition to the penalties provided in division (E) of section 4399.99 of the Revised Code, a person convicted of violating this section shall pay all necessary costs and expenses incurred in inspecting and analyzing spirituous liquor, alcoholic liquor, or beer that is so adulterated, sold, kept, or offered for sale. Last updated August 27, 2024 at 3:16 PM |
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Section 4399.16 | Rioting, reveling, intoxication, or drunkenness at taverns.
Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
No tavern keeper shall permit rioting, reveling, intoxication, or drunkenness in his house or on his premises. |
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Section 4399.17 | Use of poison in manufacture, preparation, or sale of intoxicating liquor.
Effective:
October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
No person shall use an active poison in the manufacture or preparation of intoxicating liquor or sell intoxicating liquor so manufactured or prepared. |
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Section 4399.18 | Liability for acts of intoxicated person.
Effective:
July 23, 2004
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 306 - 125th General Assembly
Notwithstanding division (A) of section 2307.60 of the Revised Code and except as otherwise provided in this section, no person, and no executor or administrator of the person, who suffers personal injury, death, or property damage as a result of the actions of an intoxicated person has a cause of action against any liquor permit holder or an employee of a liquor permit holder who sold beer or intoxicating liquor to the intoxicated person unless the personal injury, death, or property damage occurred on the permit holder's premises or in a parking lot under the control of the permit holder and was proximately caused by the negligence of the permit holder or an employee of the permit holder. A person has a cause of action against a permit holder or an employee of a permit holder for personal injury, death, or property damage caused by the negligent actions of an intoxicated person occurring off the premises or away from a parking lot under the permit holder's control only when both of the following can be shown by a preponderance of the evidence: (A) The permit holder or an employee of the permit holder knowingly sold an intoxicating beverage to at least one of the following: (1) A noticeably intoxicated person in violation of division (B) of section 4301.22 of the Revised Code; (2) A person in violation of section 4301.69 of the Revised Code. (B) The person's intoxication proximately caused the personal injury, death, or property damage. Notwithstanding sections 4399.02 and 4399.05 of the Revised Code, no person, and no executor or administrator of the person, who suffers personal injury, death, or property damage as a result of the actions of an intoxicated person has a cause of action against the owner of a building or premises who rents or leases the building or premises to a liquor permit holder against whom a cause of action may be brought under this section, except when the owner and the permit holder are the same person. |
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Section 4399.99 | Penalty.
Effective:
July 1, 1996
Latest Legislation:
Senate Bill 2 - 121st General Assembly
(A) Whoever violates section 4399.16 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars. (B) Whoever violates section 4399.09 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars on a first offense and shall be fined not less than two hundred nor more than five hundred dollars on each subsequent offense. (C) Whoever violates section 4399.10 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars and imprisoned not less than one nor more than six months. (D) Whoever violates section 4399.14 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than five hundred dollars, imprisoned not more than six months, or both. (E) Whoever violates section 4399.15 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars, imprisoned not less than twenty nor more than sixty days, or both. (F) Whoever violates section 4399.17 of the Revised Code is guilty of a felony of the fourth degree. |