As used in this section, "incompetent person" means a person who is so mentally impaired, as a result of a mental or physical illness or disability, as a result of an intellectual disability, or as a result of chronic substance abuse, that the person is incapable of taking proper care of the person's self or property or fails to provide for the person's family or other persons for whom the person is charged by law to provide.

Any permit holder whose permit premises are destroyed or made unusable for any cause, or whose tenancy is terminated for any cause, shall deliver the permit holder's permit to the division of liquor control for safekeeping until such time as the original permit premises are made available for occupancy or new premises are secured by the permit holder or until new premises are secured by the permit holder outside the precinct affected by a local option election.

Unless the permit is to be cancelled as the result of a local option election held pursuant to section 4301.352 of the Revised Code, a permit holder whose permit is to be restricted or cancelled as the result of a local option election pursuant to sections 4301.32 to 4301.41 and 4305.14 of the Revised Code may, within the thirty-day period after the certification of the results of the election to the division, deliver the permit to the division for safekeeping subject to the renewal and transfer provision of this section. A permit holder whose permit is to be cancelled as the result of a local option election held pursuant to section 4301.352 of the Revised Code is not entitled to deliver the permit to the division for safekeeping.

If, as the result of the election, the use of a permit is made wholly unlawful and the permit holder does not deliver or is not entitled to deliver the permit to the division for safekeeping as provided in this section, the division shall forthwith cancel and pick up the permit.

During the period of time that a permit is held in safekeeping by the division, the permit holder shall be allowed to transfer the permit to other premises, subject to the provisions of Chapters 4301. and 4303. of the Revised Code.

If the expiration date of a permit occurs during the time it is held in safekeeping, the permit shall be renewed by the division if the permit holder complies with the other provisions of Chapters 4301. and 4303. of the Revised Code, pertaining to the renewal of a permit. The division shall issue and then retain the renewed permit until the original permit premises become available for occupancy by the permit holder or until the permit holder secures other premises. The division shall return to the permit holder a permit renewed while in safekeeping when the original permit premises are made available for occupancy or new permit premises are secured by the permit holder, if the premises meet the requirements of Chapters 4301. and 4303. of the Revised Code.

A permit renewed while in safekeeping shall be considered in full force and effect and may be transferred by the division.

Should the permit holder be adjudged an incompetent person or die while the permit holder's permit is in safekeeping, the permit shall be transferred, upon application, by the division to the guardian, administrator, executor, or other fiduciary of the permit holder who shall have the same rights to the transfer, return, and renewal of the permit as is provided in this section for the permit holder.

A permit held in safekeeping shall not be renewed more than once while so held, unless the building from which the permit was taken for safekeeping or the building to which the permit is to be transferred is under construction or reconstruction, in which event the permit shall be held in safekeeping and shall, upon the application of the permit holder, be renewed at each expiration date until the construction or reconstruction of the building is completed.

Amended by 131st General Assembly File No. TBD, HB 158, §1, eff. 10/12/2016.

Effective Date: 07-01-1997; 2007 HB53 08-07-2007