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OH SB296
Bill
Status
8/23/2010
Primary Sponsor
Eric Kearney
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AI Summary
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Amends section 4303.292 of the Revised Code to add childcare centers and nursing homes to the list of facilities that can trigger permit denial if a liquor establishment would substantially and adversely affect their normal operations.
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Changes the Division of Liquor Control's authority from "may refuse" to "shall refuse" the issuance or transfer of retail liquor permits when neighborhood saturation would interfere with public morals, safety, or welfare.
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Removes the word "substantially" from the standard for neighborhood permit saturation, requiring refusal if issuance or transfer would be "detrimental to and interfere with" public morals, safety, or welfare.
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Maintains existing permit denial criteria including applicant fitness, building/safety/health compliance, proximity to schools, churches, libraries, hospitals, public playgrounds, and nuisance declarations.
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Repeals existing section 4303.292 and replaces it with the amended version containing these changes.
Legislative Description
To prevent the issuance or transfer of a retail liquor permit if the place for which the permit is sought is so situated that it will substantially and adversely affect the normal, orderly conduct of a nursing home or childcare center and to prevent issuing or transferring the location of a retail liquor permit if the number of existing permits in the neighborhood is such that the issuance or transfer would be detrimental to and interfere with public morals, safety, or welfare.
Retail liquor permits-restrict issuance or transfer-if detrimental effect
Last Action
To Agriculture
8/23/2010