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Sunday Liquor Sales in Ohio Get Approval
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Sales of liquor on Sunday will soon be allowed in Ohio. Gov. Bob Taft yesterday signed into law a bill that allows liquor agencystores to sell spirituous liquor on Sunday. The new law also relaxes,according to permit classification, certain prohibitions on the sale ofbeer and wine.The bill goes into effect in 90 days.Previously, Ohio consumers were only allowed to buy beer and wine on Sundays. Under the new law, Sunday spirits sales will be permitted in liquor stores located in communities where voters have already passed Sunday sales for bars and restaurants."This new law will bring consumers more choices and greater convenience," said Peter Cressy, president of the Distilled Spirits Council, the trade association for the nation's distillers supporting the change.Ohio becomes the 31st state -- and the ninth in the last two years -- to permit Sunday liquor sales, Cressy added in a news release."States across the country are modernizing their outdated liquor laws as a way to benefit consumers while at the same time raising much needed tax revenue," Cressy said. "