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July 28, 2016 by Mark Whitted Leave a Comment

Hey Siri! Can I by beer on Sunday in Ohio?

I have been on a contract assignment in Mason, Ohio, just northeast of Cincinnati for almost fours weeks now. Over that time I have now spent two weekends in Ohio. This past weekend, I was invited to have dinner with Chuck, a friend whom I worked for several years ago when we both lived in the Grand Rapids, Michigan area. Chuck now lives in the Columbus area, about an hour and a half from Mason. Trying to be a good guest, I asked Chuck what kind of beer he liked and I was planning to take a six pack of Bells Oberon for us to enjoy with whatever he was going to be grilling Sunday evening.

Well, in somewhat of a mild panic Saturday evening I thought I should find out if I could buy beer on Sunday in Ohio. If not, I’d better get on the stick and find a six pack before it was too late. Sounds like a simple enough question, right? HA! Well, a quick lookup at our friends over at Legal Beer’s Liquor Laws by State page  showed no specific prohibition of Sunday sales of alcohol with “off-premise” sales allowed from 5:30 A.M. to 1:00 A.M. So I was able to pick up a six pack of Bells Oberon on my way to Chuck’s and was treated to a very enjoyable evening.

But when I decided to write about this little adventure here, I wanted to get the “official” story from the source. So after several false starts on Google, I wound up at Title [43] XLIII LIQUOR, Chapter 4301, Section 22 of the Ohio Revised Code “Rules for sales of beer and intoxicating liquor under all classes of permits and from state liquor stores”. I know, right? And it gets worse.

(C) No sales of intoxicating liquor shall be made after two-thirty a.m. on Sunday except under either of the following circumstances:

(1) Intoxicating liquor may be sold on Sunday under authority of a permit that authorizes Sunday sale.

(2) Spirituous liquor may be sold on Sunday by any person awarded an agency contract under section 4301.17 of the Revised Code if the sale of spirituous liquor is authorized in the applicable precinct as the result of an election on question (B)(1) or (2) of section 4301.351 of the Revised Code and if the agency contract authorizes the sale of spirituous liquor on Sunday.

This section does not prevent a municipal corporation from adopting a closing hour for the sale of intoxicating liquor earlier than two-thirty a.m. on Sunday or to provide that no intoxicating liquor may be sold prior to that hour on Sunday.

So apperantly I COULD have been unlucky enough to be in a city where beer could NOT be sold. But fortunately I wasn’t. And the short answer, Siri, is “Yes Mark, you can buy beer in Ohio on Sunday.” Thank you Siri.

What do you think?

So let me know what you think. Can you buy beer on Sunday where you live? How about wine or other forms of intoxicating spirits? We want to hear about it. Leave a comment below. Or email me at Mark@CrazyLiquorLaws.com. You will need to register to comment and at that time I will need your email address; but don’t worry; I won’t be spamming you and will never sell your information.

Cheers!

Mark

 

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