2006 Ohio Revised Code - 4301.20. Exemptions.

§ 4301.20. Exemptions.
 

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 purchase and importation into this state of 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 intoxicating liquor to any person, firm, or corporation purchasing and importing it into this state for that use; 

(K) 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; 

(L) Persons, at least twenty-one years of age, who collect ceramic commemorative bottles containing spirituous liquor which have unbroken federal tax stamps on them from selling or trading the bottles to other collectors. The bottles must originally have been purchased at retail from the division, legally imported under division (K) 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. 
 

HISTORY: GC § 6064-13; 115 v PtII, 118(129), § 13; 116 v 511(524); Bureau of Code Revision, 10-1-53; 133 v H 637 (Eff 10-22-69); 138 v H 669 (Eff 10-22-80); 146 v S 149 (Eff 11-21-95); 146 v S 162. Eff 7-1-97; 150 v H 306, § 1, eff. 7-23-04.
 

The provisions of § 3 of H.B. 306 (150 v  - ) read as follows: 

SECTION 3. * * * Section 4301.20 of the Revised Code is presented in this act as a composite of the section as amended by both Am. Sub. S.B. 149 and Am. Sub. S.B. 162 of the 121st General Assembly. The General Assembly, applying the principle stated in division (B) of section 1.52 of the Revised Code that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation, finds that the composite versions of these sections are the resulting versions of the sections in effect prior to the effective date of the sections as presented in this act. 

The effective date is set by section 10 of SB 162. 

 

Effect of Amendments

150 v H 306, effective July 23, 2004, substituted "supplier registration" for "consent to import" in (L); and made minor stylistic changes.