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...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Alcoholic beverage" means beer, wine, mixed beverages, or spirituous liquor. (2) "Personal consumer" means an individual who is at least twenty-one years of age and who intends to use a purchased alcoholic beverage only for personal consumption and not for resale or other commercial purposes. (3) "Qualified permit holder" has the same meaning as in section 4301.82 of the Rev...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Alcoholic beverage" means beer, wine, mixed beverages, or spirituous liquor. (2) "Personal consumer" means an individual who is at least twenty-one years of age and intends to use a purchased alcoholic beverage for personal consumption only and not for resale or other commercial purposes. (3) "Qualified permit holder" has the same meaning as in section 4301.82 of the Revised Co...

...rities exchange. (b) All purchases of alcoholic beverages by the C or D permit holder are made from wholesale distributors in this state or agency stores licensed by the division of liquor control. (c) If the C or D permit holder sells brands of alcoholic beverages that are produced or distributed by the manufacturer that holds the financial interest, the C or D permit holder also sells other competing brands of ...

...le, 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 t...

...2 to 1333.87 of the Revised Code: (A) "Alcoholic beverages" means beer and wine as defined in section 4301.01 of the Revised Code. (B) "Manufacturer" means a person, whether located in this state or elsewhere, that manufactures or supplies alcoholic beverages to distributors in this state. (C) "Distributor" means a person that sells or distributes alcoholic beverages to retail permit holders in this state, but doe...

...r in connection with the purchase of an alcoholic beverage if both of the following apply: (1) The value of the merchandise or other thing of value does not meet or exceed the retail price of the alcoholic beverage purchased by the personal consumer; (2) The merchandise or other thing of value is not made by or awarded through a distributor or retail permit holder. (B) As used in this section, "personal consumer" ...

...ritional value. "Food" does not include alcoholic beverages, dietary supplements, soft drinks, or tobacco. (2) As used in division (CCC)(1) of this section: (a) "Dietary supplements" means any product, other than tobacco, that is intended to supplement the diet and that is intended for ingestion in tablet, capsule, powder, softgel, gelcap, or liquid form, or, if not intended for ingestion in such a form, is not...

...ngaged in the sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages, or a subsidiary of any such manufacturer, shall: (A) Fail to act in good faith or without just cause in acting or purporting to act under the terms of a franchise or in cancelling or failing to renew a franchise; (B) Award an additional franchise for the sale of the same brand within the same sales area or territory. No franchise prohibits a retail ...

...ther party to authorize the handling of alcoholic beverages. The occurrence of any one of the foregoing events shall constitute just cause for cancellation or failure to renew a franchise or substantially changing a sales area or territory without the prior consent of the other party. (B) The occurrence of any of the following events shall not constitute just cause for cancellation of or failure to renew a franchis...

...appeals to prohibit the sale or use of alcoholic beverages in areas where the establishment and operation of any retail business, hotel, lunchroom, or restaurant is permitted. (E)(1) Any person who plans to construct a telecommunications tower within one hundred feet of a residential dwelling shall provide a written notice to the owner of the residential dwelling and to the person occupying the residence, if t...

... to offering food for sale, offers only alcoholic beverages or prepackaged beverages that are not potentially hazardous; (13) An establishment that, with respect to offering food for sale, offers only alcoholic beverages, prepackaged beverages that are not potentially hazardous, or commercially prepackaged food that is not potentially hazardous, on the condition that the commercially prepackaged food is contained i...

...n, the permit holder shall not sell any alcoholic beverages at such permit premises during the effective period stated in the order of a suspension, and shall cover the permit by posting a copy of the suspension order over the permit, and the order of suspension shall remain so posted on the permit premises until termination of the suspension period. Upon termination of the suspension period, the permit holder may re...

...er. (H)(1) As used in this section, "alcoholic beverage" has the same meaning as in section 4303.185 of the Revised Code. (2) An alcoholic beverage in a closed container being transported under section 4303.185 of the Revised Code to its final destination is not an opened container for the purposes of this section if the closed container is securely sealed in such a manner that it is visibly apparent if the clo...

...incipal purpose of which is the sale of alcoholic beverages for consumption off premises; (4) A massage parlor; (5) A hot tub facility; (6) A suntan facility; (7) A business engaged in the development or holding of intangibles for sale; (8) A private or commercial golf course; (9) A business that derives or projects to derive fifteen per cent or more of its net income from the rental or sale of real...

...Every manufacturer of alcoholic beverages shall contract with or offer in good faith to its distributors a written franchise providing for, and specifying the rights and duties of both parties in effecting, the sale of the specified brands or products of the manufacturer. Any provision of a franchise agreement that waives any of the prohibitions of, or fails to comply with, sections 1333.82 to 1333.87 of the Revised ...

...for the particular product or brand of alcoholic beverage shall not be assigned to another distributor until the successor manufacturer compensates the terminated or nonrenewed distributor for the diminished value of the distributor's business. (2) When a distributor receives written notice of termination or nonrenewal of its franchise pursuant to division (D) of section 1333.85 of the Revised Code, the distri...

...g: (a) The chronic and habitual use of alcoholic beverages to the extent that the user no longer can control the use of alcohol or endangers the user's health, safety, or welfare or that of others; (b) The use of a drug of abuse to the extent that the user becomes physically or psychologically dependent on the drug or endangers the user's health, safety, or welfare or that of others. (3) "Drug of abuse" has the sa...

...ommercial establishment, whether or not alcoholic beverages are served, that regularly features any of the following: (a) Persons who appear in a state of nudity or seminudity; (b) Live performances that are characterized by the exposure of specified anatomical areas or specified sexual activities; (c) Films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or other photographic reproductions that are distinguished or ch...

... or bingo; (3) Firearms, tobacco, or alcoholic beverages; or (4) A redeemable voucher that is redeemable for any of the items listed in division (VV)(1), (2), or (3) of this section. (WW) "Redeemable voucher" means any ticket, token, coupon, receipt, or other noncash representation of value. (XX) "Pool not conducted for profit" means a scheme in which a participant gives a valuable consideration for a cha...

...at product, any type of crop, water, or alcoholic or nonalcoholic beverage. (E)(1) Whoever violates division (B)(1) or (2) of this section is guilty of contaminating a substance for human consumption or use or contamination with a hazardous chemical, biological, or radioactive substance. Except as otherwise provided in this division, contaminating a substance for human consumption or use or contamination with a haza...

...(A) If a person charged with a misdemeanor is taken before a judge of a court of record and if it appears to the judge that the person has alcoholism or is experiencing acute alcohol intoxication and that the person would benefit from services provided by a community addiction services provider, the judge may place the person temporarily with a community addiction services provider in the area in which the court has ...

... or degree other than traffic offenses, alcoholic intoxication offenses, or minor misdemeanors and having been imprisoned pursuant to sentence for any such offense, the person commits a subsequent offense. (2) "Dangerous offender" means a person who has committed an offense, whose history, character, and condition reveal a substantial risk that the person will be a danger to others, and whose conduct has been charac...

...ions against the use of drugs of abuse, alcoholic beverages, and tobacco, including electronic smoking devices; (c) Sexually transmitted infection education, except that upon written request of the student's parent or guardian, a student shall be excused from taking instruction in sexually transmitted infection education; (d) In grades kindergarten through six, annual developmentally appropriate instruction in ...

... treatment, rehabilitation, and care of alcoholics.

...ana product, medical marijuana product, alcoholic product, tobacco product, electronic smoking device, vapor product, or product or device that consists of or contains nicotine that can be ingested into the body; (B) Any medical marijuana cultivator, processor, laboratory, or retail dispensary licensed under Chapter 3796. of the Revised Code or under the laws of another state; (C) Any business engaged in the sa...