The Ohio legislature has created ten major classifications (incorporating numerous subcategories) of licenses to sell, manufacture, or transport alcoholic beverages, namely types A through I and type W.
Ohio Rev.Code §§ 4303.02–
4303.231. Generally, retailers which purchase one of the various class C permits may distribute, subject to the terms, conditions, and restrictions appertaining to the particular license subtype, intoxicants including beer, wine, and/or mixed beverages, for off-premises consumption.
Ohio Rev.Code §§ 4303.11–
4303.121. Service establishments including restaurants, hotels, clubs, and the like which procure one of the sundry class D licenses may retail, subject to the terms, conditions, and restrictions applicable to the particular license subcategory, alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption or for both on-premises and off-premises consumption.
Ohio Rev.Code §§ 4303.13–
4303.183. However, Ohio law enables “local option elections” whereby local voters, via referendum, may prohibit certain retail sales of alcoholic beverages within an election precinct or residence district.
Ohio Rev.Code §§ 4301.35 &
4305.14. To the extent that a local option election forestalls particular types of sales of alcoholic beverages in the pertinent geographical area, that election effectively nullifies, as applicable to that limited territory, the privilege of conducting retail transactions in the foreclosed alcoholic beverages which erstwhile had been enjoyed by the owner of any ODLC-issued permit which, but for the referendum, would authorize such sales in that region.