Ohio § 4301.20

§ 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 122.075 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, four and one-half

liters of wine, or two hundred eighty-eight ounces of beer 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, wine, or beer 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. (O) The possession or consumption of beer or intoxicating liquor by a person who is under

twenty-one years of age and who is a student at an accredited college or university,

provided that both of the following apply: (1) The person is required to taste and expectorate the beer or intoxicating liquor for

a culinary, food service, or hospitality course. (2) The person is under the direct supervision of the instructor of the culinary, food

service, or hospitality course.