Ohio Revised Code Search
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Section 3796.23 | Rights of caregiver.
...(A) Notwithstanding any conflicting provision of the Revised Code, a caregiver registered under this chapter who obtains medical marijuana from a licensed dispensary may do any of the following: (1) Possess medical marijuana on behalf of a registered patient under the caregiver's care, subject to division (B) of this section; (2) Assist a registered patient under the caregiver's care in the use or administratio... |
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Section 3796.24 | Liability.
...(A) The holder of a license, as defined in section 4776.01 of the Revised Code, is not subject to professional disciplinary action solely for engaging in professional or occupational activities related to medical marijuana. (B) Unless there is clear and convincing evidence that a child is unsafe, the use, possession, or administration of medical marijuana in accordance with this chapter shall not be the sole or pri... |
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Section 3796.27 | Financial institutions.
... institution, the division of marijuana control shall provide to the financial institution all of the following information: (a) Whether a person with whom the financial institution is seeking to do business is a license holder; (b) The name of any other business or individual affiliated with the person; (c) An unredacted copy of the application for a license under this chapter or under Chapter 3780. of the ... |
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Section 3796.28 | Rights of employer.
...(A) Nothing in this chapter does any of the following: (1) Requires an employer to permit or accommodate an employee's use, possession, or distribution of marijuana; (2) Prohibits an employer from refusing to hire, discharging, disciplining, or otherwise taking an adverse employment action against a person with respect to hire, tenure, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment because of that person's use,... |
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Section 3796.29 | Limitations on number of cultivators, processors, or retail dispensaries by localities.
...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, the legislative authority of a municipal corporation or a board of township trustees may adopt an ordinance or a resolution, to prohibit, or limit the number of, licensed cultivators, licensed processors, or licensed dispensaries within the municipal corporation or within the unincorporated territory of the township, respectively. (B) The legislative... |
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Section 3796.30 | Activities prohibited near schools, churches, libraries, playgrounds or parks.
...r public park, the division of cannabis control shall deny the request for relocation. (C) This section does not require relocation or closure of a facility used by a licensed cultivator, licensed processor, licensed dispensary, or licensed laboratory, if that facility has a certificate of operation at the time a school, church, public library, public playground, or public park relocates, or is established, on a p... |
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Section 3796.31 | Prohibition on local taxes, fees.
...Except as otherwise authorized in the Revised Code, no political subdivision shall do either of the following: (A) Levy any tax or fee on license holders that is based on the license holder's businesses' gross receipts or that is the same as or similar to any tax or fee imposed by the state; (B) Levy any tax, fee, or charge on license holders or license holders' property that is not generally charged on other b... |
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Section 3796.32 | Advertisement and marketing.
...(A) The division of cannabis control may adopt rules regulating the advertisement of adult-use marijuana and medical marijuana to prevent advertisements that are false, misleading, targeted to minors, attractive to minors, promote excessive use, promote illegal activity, are obscene or indecent, contain depictions of marijuana use, or promote marijuana as an intoxicant. (B) Any rules the division adopts regulating ... |
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Section 3796.33 | Equivalent licenses.
...this chapter, the division of marijuana control shall merge the licenses and treat them as the same license for all purposes, including expiration and renewal. |
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Section 3796.34 | [Former R.C. 3780.37, amended and renumbered by S.B. 56, 136th General Assembly, effective 3/20/2026] Drug misuse prevention, education, and public awareness.
...d Code. (B) The division of marijuana control shall contract with a statewide nonprofit corporation for the development and implementation of cannabis and related drug misuse prevention, education, and public awareness initiatives driven by data, evaluation, and research. The contract must include a provision specifying a percentage of the total funding for the initiatives, not less than ten per cent, to be raised ... |
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Section 3796.40 | Excise tax on sale of adult-use marijuana.
...ax commissioner. (F) After making any transfers required under division (E) of this section, the director of budget and management shall transfer amounts remaining in the adult use tax fund as follows: (1) Sixty-four per cent to the general revenue fund; (2) Thirty-six per cent to the host community cannabis fund, which is created in the state treasury, for the benefit of municipal corporations or townships tha... |
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Section 3796.99 | Penalty.
...e operator is operating or has physical control of the vehicle, streetcar, trackless trolley, watercraft, or aircraft is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. (B) Except as otherwise provided in division (A) of this section, whoever violates division (C)(2) or (3)(a), (b), or (d) of section 3796.06 of the Revised Code is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. (C)(1)(a) Except as provided in division (C)(1)(b) of t... |
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Section 4301.011 | General Assembly finding - sole and exclusive regulation of alcohol.
...The general assembly hereby finds that the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution confers upon the state of Ohio sole and exclusive authority to regulate the sale and distribution of beer and intoxicating liquor in this state. That authority, so conferred, has rested with the state of Ohio since the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution. The general assembly... |
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Section 4301.02 | Division of liquor control organization.
...The division of liquor control consists of the superintendent of liquor control appointed by the director of commerce and such deputies, chiefs, agents, and employees as the director of commerce shall appoint to administer the various functions of the division, including but not limited to, the operation of a beer and wine section and the issuance of permits. The deputies and chiefs shall serve in the unclassified ci... |
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Section 4301.021 | Superintendent of liquor control powers.
...The superintendent of liquor control shall exercise all powers and perform all duties created and enjoined by Chapters 4301. and 4303. of the Revised Code, except for the powers and duties vested in and enjoined upon the liquor control commission by section 4301.022 of the Revised Code and all chapters and sections of the Revised Code referred to in that section, and except for the powers and duties vested in the dep... |
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Section 4301.022 | Liquor control commission.
...The liquor control commission consists of three commissioners, not more than two of whom shall be of the same political party, who shall be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate. Terms of office shall be for six years, commencing on the ninth day of February and ending on the eighth day of February, except that upon expiration of the term ending February 12, 1979, the new term which suc... |
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Section 4301.03 | Liquor control commission rules.
...The liquor control commission may adopt and promulgate, repeal, rescind, and amend, in the manner required by this section, rules, standards, requirements, and orders necessary to carry out this chapter and Chapter 4303. of the Revised Code, but all rules of the board of liquor control that were in effect immediately prior to April 17, 1963, shall remain in full force and effect as rules of the liquor control commiss... |
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Section 4301.04 | Liquor control commission powers.
...The liquor control commission has the following powers which it may exercise by the vote of a majority of the commissioners: (A) To suspend, revoke, and cancel permits. A majority of the commissioners constitutes a quorum for the transaction of any business, for the performance of any duty, or for the exercise of any power of the commission. No vacancy in the commission shall impair the right of the remaining... |
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Section 4301.041 | Minimum percentage mark-up for sales at retail of beer.
...The liquor control commission may determine and fix by rule the minimum percentage mark-up for sales at retail of beer, whether in case lot or less. To determine the retail price of beer, the minimum percentage mark-up may be applied to the wholesale price of the manufacturer or wholesale distributor charged to the retail permit holder. Such prices shall apply to sales made at retail by a permit holder for off-p... |
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Section 4301.042 | Pricing practices rules for beer sales.
...The liquor control commission may adopt, repeal, and amend rules providing for and controlling pricing practices and the manner and frequency with which any person sets or changes prices at which beer is sold to or by the holders of B-1 permits, but the commission shall not set prices or markups between manufacturers or other suppliers and the holders of B-1 permits. |
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Section 4301.05 | Liquor control commission not to exercise executive or administrative duties or powers.
...ssly or impliedly granted to the liquor control commission by Chapters 4301. and 4303. of the Revised Code; but except as expressly provided in sections 4301.03, 4301.04, and 4301.041 of the Revised Code, the commission shall not exercise executive or administrative duties or powers. |
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Section 4301.06 | Division of liquor control publications and hearings.
...The division of liquor control shall compile and publish, in reasonable detail, information as to its financial and other operations; and the liquor control commission shall hold not less than four public hearings annually for the purpose of hearing general complaints as to its policies under Chapters 4301. and 4303. of the Revised Code, receiving suggestions with respect thereto, and for the dissemination of informa... |
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Section 4301.07 | Liquor control commission members.
...Each member of the liquor control commission shall devote the member's entire time to the duties of office and shall hold no other office of trust or profit. No member of the commission, nor the superintendent of liquor control, nor any of the employees of the commission or of the division of liquor control, shall have any direct financial interest in, or any interest otherwise prohibited by Chapter 102. or sec... |
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Section 4301.08 | Bond of liquor control commission, superintendent, employees.
...Each member of the liquor control commission shall give bond to the state in the amount of ten thousand dollars, and the superintendent of liquor control shall give bond to the state in the amount of one hundred thousand dollars conditioned according to law with surety to the approval of the governor. Such bond shall be filed and kept in the office of the secretary of state. The commission may require any emplo... |
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Section 4301.10 | Division of liquor control powers and duties.
...(A) The division of liquor control shall do all of the following: (1) Control the traffic in beer and intoxicating liquor in this state, including the manufacture, importation, and sale of beer and intoxicating liquor; (2) Grant or refuse permits for the manufacture, distribution, transportation, and sale of beer and intoxicating liquor and the sale of alcohol, as authorized or required by this chapter and Chap... |