§ 94.02 EXEMPTIONS FROM CHAPTER.
   The provisions of this chapter do not prevent:
   (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 the municipality, 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 his or her profession.
   (E)   The sale of alcohol to physicians, dentists, druggists, veterinary surgeons, manufacturers, hospitals, infirmaries, or medical or educational institutions using the same 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 medicines 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 English, conspicuously and legibly, the quantity by volume of alcohol in such 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 such 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 R.C. § 122.075.
   (K)   The purchase and importation into the municipality 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 such terms as are prescribed by the Department, provided that the terms prescribed by the Department shall not increase the cost of the beer or intoxicating liquor to any person, firm or corporation purchasing and importing the same into this municipality 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 21 years from bringing into this municipality for personal use and not for resale not more than one liter of spirituous liquor, 4.5 liters of wine, or 288 ounces of beer in any 30 day period, and the same is free of any tax consent fee when such resident or member of the armed forces physically possesses and accompanies such 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 21 years of age who collect ceramic commemorative bottles containing spirituous liquor that have unbroken federal tax stamps thereon from selling or trading such bottles to other collectors. Such bottles shall originally have been purchased at retail from the Department, legally imported under division (L) of this section, or legally imported pursuant to a consent to import issued by the Department. Such 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 50 people;
      (3)   The event shall be for a period not to exceed 12 hours;
      (4)   The sale of beer and intoxicating liquor at the event shall not take place between 2:30 a.m. and 5:30 a.m.;
      (5)   No person under 21 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 21 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 21 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.
(R.C. § 4301.20)