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...(A) Securities issued by a subdivision shall state on their face the purposes, stated in summary terms, for which, and identify the legislation under which, they are issued. They shall bear interest at a rate or rates as provided for in that legislation. In the case of voted general obligation bonds to be payable from sources other than property taxes or special assessments pursuant to provision for payment from suc...

...(A) Chapter 133. securities shall be signed on behalf of the subdivision as follows: (1) In the case of a municipal corporation, by the mayor or other chief executive officer and by the fiscal officer, or by any other officers who are designated to sign by the charter or legislation of its taxing authority; (2) In the case of a county, by at least two members of its taxing authority and by the county auditor, or,...

...(A) Before a taxing authority sells any securities of the subdivision to others, the taxing authority may offer the securities at their purchase price and accrued interest to the officer or officers who have charge of the bond retirement fund of the subdivision, or in the case of a municipal corporation to the treasury investment board for investment under section 731.56 of the Revised Code, or an officer or similar ...

...(A) As determined by the taxing authority, Chapter 133. securities may be sold by competitive bid on the best bid, or at private sale in a manner determined or authorized by the taxing authority, and at not less than ninety-seven per cent of their principal amount, plus accrued interest, and at an interest rate or rates not exceeding that determined by the taxing authority. (B) As provided in this division, the taxi...

...ing the best bid for securities sold at public sale. (B) The subdivision or its paying agent or registrar shall not deduct any amount from the debt charges payable on any securities as any registration, transfer, exchange, collection, payment, or other service charge.

...Unless otherwise provided by law or in proceedings authorized by law, proceeds from the sale of Chapter 133. securities shall be deposited and credited as follows: (A) An amount equal to the principal amount of or the discount purchase price of the securities, and if determined by the taxing authority or the fiscal officer any amount for capitalized interest, shall be credited to the fund or funds for the purposes o...

...inutes of the taxing authority or other public issuer shall prepare and certify, and if requested by the original purchaser of the securities or of the fractionalized interests in its public obligations furnish to that original purchaser, a true transcript of proceedings pertaining to the securities or to the public obligations. The transcript shall include all of the following: (1) A statement of the character of t...

...s to fund any outstanding securities or public obligations issued by the taxing authority pursuant to authorization by law or the Ohio Constitution, including the funding of any mandatory sinking fund redemption requirements. (6) Issue tourism development district revenue supported bonds to fund or refund any outstanding revenue or mortgage revenue or general obligation or other special obligation securities previou...

...ch officer determines that it is in the public interest to refund such securities and exchange them for refunding securities to be issued pursuant to any such refunding or plan of refunding under this chapter or complementary sections of the Revised Code, such officer may, with the consent of such depositor, or of its conservator if one has been appointed, or of the superintendent of banks if he has taken possession ...

...For the purpose of enabling subdivisions to take advantage of the act of congress entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States," approved July 1, 1898, including acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, and for that purpose only, and notwithstanding any statutes of this state to the contrary, particularly this chapter, the taxing authority of any subdivision prov...

...With the approval of the tax commissioner, the taxing authority of any subdivision at any time may refund any outstanding bonds of the subdivision which have matured or which are about to mature and which were issued in anticipation of the collection of special assessments, together with the amount of the interest coupons due or to become due on such bonds. The commissioner shall approve such issue only to any extent...

...es remain unsold after being offered at public or private sale under section 133.30 of the Revised Code, the taxing authority may, with the consent of the holder of any of the anticipatory securities, by legislation renew or extend the maturity of any of such anticipatory securities with interest at the same or a new rate or rates, for not to exceed one year, to be evidenced by notation on the anticipatory securities...

...(A) The taxing authority of a subdivision may authorize, by specific legislation or by general legislation authorizing the fiscal officer or registrar to act for it, the issuance of a duplicate security to the holder or owner of any lost, stolen, mutilated, or destroyed security, including any appertaining coupons, as provided in section 1308.41 of the Revised Code, or any check or warrant issued in payment of debt c...

...(A) A subdivision may, if authorized by the taxing authority and upon the request of and at the expense of the original purchaser, in the case of initial delivery of securities, or holder of coupon securities, issue fully registered securities in lieu of or in exchange for coupon securities in a principal amount not exceeding the unpaid principal amount of the coupon securities. Such fully registered securities shall...

...registered owner to do so by a power of attorney.

...(A) A subdivision may register any coupon security registrable as to principal upon the request of the owner or holder. The officer in charge of the bond retirement fund or, if there is no such officer, the fiscal officer of the subdivision shall note the registration on the security. Thereafter, no transfer shall be valid unless the transfer is entered on the records of the subdivision and similarly noted on the sec...

...When any officers, boards, or commissions have consented to any exchange or plan of exchange as provided in section 133.49 of the Revised Code, any officer having possession of any notes or bonds to be exchanged for refunding bonds shall deliver them pursuant to such exchange or plan and he shall receive the bonds to be issued in exchange therefor, together with any cash to be paid pursuant to such plan.

...oration, or township may issue or incur public obligations, including general obligations, to provide, or assist in providing, housing pursuant to Section 16 of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution.

...tion, or township may issue or incur public obligations, including general obligations, to provide, or assist in providing, grants, loans, loan guarantees, or contributions for conservation and revitalization purposes pursuant to Sections 2o and 2q of Article VIII, Ohio Constitution.

...Whenever bonds issued in anticipation of the collection of special assessments are refunded, as authorized by section 133.37 of the Revised Code, the taxing authority may reassess against each lot or parcel of land upon which the original assessments were levied and are due and unpaid, the due and unpaid part of the installments of such assessments with interest. Whenever, irrespective of the issuance of any refundin...

...cal officer shall prepare and file for public inspection a list containing the names of the owners, a tax duplicate description of each parcel of land on which the reassessment will be levied, and the total amount to be reassessed, separately stated as to each parcel, and the taxing authority shall publish notice for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the political subdivision, or a...

...After the taxing authority has approved the assessments provided for in section 133.54 of the Revised Code, like proceedings shall be had for the levy, certification, payment, and collection of said assessments as apply to the levy, certification, payment, and collection of original assessments, and all laws relating to the levy, certification, payment, and collection of original assessments, except as otherwise set ...

...Whenever a political subdivision has started proceedings under section 133.54 of the Revised Code to reassess any original assessment installments against any lot or parcel of land, and there is pending, or prior to the cancellation of the original assessment installments there is commenced, a suit in any manner involving the lien of such original assessment or assessment installments, the lien of any such reassessme...

...(A) As used in this section and in section 133.61 of the Revised Code: (1) "Agricultural easement" has the same meaning as in section 5301.67 of the Revised Code. (2) "Bonds" means notes or bonds. (B) The board of county commissioners of a county may issue bonds for the purpose of acquiring agricultural easements. The issuance of the bonds is subject to this chapter, except that their maturity shall not extend bey...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation, board of county commissioners of a county, or board of township trustees of a township may issue general obligation bonds for the purpose of acquiring agricultural easements. The bonds shall be issued in the manner provided in section 133.18 of the Revised Code and pursuant to this chapter. All moneys raised by the issuance of bonds under this section, after paym...

...who is a member or former member of the public employees retirement system but not a current contributor and who is not receiving a pension or benefit from the public employees retirement system elects to receive credit under the Cincinnati retirement system for service for which the person contributed to the public employees retirement system or purchased or obtained as military service credit, the public employees ...

...ommenced the employment covered by the public employees retirement system for which the member is currently contributing to the system. (B) A member of the public employees retirement system who has contributions on deposit with, but is no longer contributing to, a uniform retirement system shall, in computing years of service, be given full credit for transferred service credit if a transfer to the public em...

...(A) The public employees retirement board may adopt rules in accordance with section 145.09 of the Revised Code to establish a program under which service credit earned under section 145.33 of the Revised Code or division (A)(2), (B)(1)(b), or (C)(2) of section 145.332 of the Revised Code is treated as service credit earned under division (A)(1), (B)(1)(a), or (C)(1) of section 145.332 of the Revised Code if the memb...

... the Revised Code. (B) A member of the public employees retirement system may purchase service credit under this section for any period during which the member was out of service with a public employer and receiving workers' compensation if the member returns to employment covered by this chapter. (C) For credit purchased under this section: (1) If the member is employed by one public employer, for each year of cr...

...er's request and on notification to the public employees retirement system, the public employees retirement board shall compute the total additional amount the member and employer would have contributed, or the amount by which each of the member's and employer's contributions would have increased, had the member received the increased salary for the office the member holds. If the member elects to have the comb...

... the Ohio police and fire pension fund, public employees retirement system, school employees retirement system, state highway patrol retirement system, or the state teachers retirement system. (2) This section applies only to service in the armed forces that occurred prior to October 13, 1994, the date on which the "Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994," 108 Stat. 3149, 38 U.S.C. 101, b...

...entation of the service and subject to public employees retirement board rules, a member may purchase service credit for each year or portion of a year of service incurred by reason of having been on active duty as a member of the reserves or the Ohio national guard for which the member is not eligible to purchase credit under division (B)(1) of this section. Any credit purchased under this section shall be co...

...commissioned corps of the United States public health service; service as a red cross nurse with the army, navy, air force, or hospital service of the United States, army nurse corps, navy nurse corps, or serving full-time with the American red cross in a combat zone; and any other category of persons designated by the president in time of war or emergency. (B) On re-employment of a member with the same public empl...

... retirement system, the Ohio police and fire pension fund, or the state highway patrol retirement system, after the withdrawal of accumulated contributions and cancellation of service credit in this system, may restore such service credit by redepositing the amount withdrawn, with interest on such amount compounded annually at a rate to be determined by the public employees retirement board from the first day of the ...

...edit in the system, the Ohio police and fire pension fund, school employees retirement system, state teachers retirement system, or state highway patrol retirement system, and is a former member of or no longer contributing to the school employees retirement system or state teachers retirement system may restore service credit under section 3307.71 or 3309.26 of the Revised Code by making payments pursuant to this se...

...ction 3309.261 of the Revised Code, the public employees retirement system shall do both of the following: (A) Calculate and certify to the requesting retirement system the cost to a former member to restore service credit under section 145.31 of the Revised Code for each year or portion of a year for which the former member seeks to restore service credit under that section. (B) Inform the requesting retirement sy...

...Eligibility of members of the public employees retirement system, including for members described in section 145.196 of the Revised Code and other than those subject to section 145.332 of the Revised Code, for age and service retirement shall be determined under this section. (A) A member is eligible for age and service retirement under this division if, not later than five years after January 7, 2013, the member ...

...otherwise provided in this section, the public employees retirement board shall annually increase each allowance, pension, or benefit payable under this chapter. Until the last day of December of the fifth full calendar year after the effective date of this amendment, the increase shall be three per cent. For each succeeding calendar year, the increase shall be as follows: (1) For each allowance, pension, or be...

...(A)(1) Except as provided in sections 145.332 and 145.335 of the Revised Code, when a member retires on age and service retirement, the member's total annual single lifetime allowance shall be an amount adjusted in accordance with division (A)(2) or (B) of this section and determined by multiplying the member's total service credit by the following: (a) If the member is eligible for age and service retirement unde...

...(A) A recipient of a disability allowance under section 145.361 of the Revised Code who is subject to division (C)(3) of that section may make application for age and service retirement under this section. Retirement shall be effective on the first day of the first month following the last day for which the disability allowance is paid. (B) The annual allowance payable under this section shall consist of the sum o...

...s a liquor control investigator, forest-fire investigator, natural resources officer, wildlife officer, park district police officer, conservancy district officer, veterans' home police officer, special police officer for a mental health institution, special police officer for an institution for persons with developmental disabilities, or municipal police officer on or after December 15, 1988; (f) Any person who o...

...benefit cap, a limit established by the public employees retirement board on the retirement allowance a member may receive. (B) Based on the advice of an actuary appointed by the board, the board shall designate a number as the CBBC factor. The board may revise the factor pursuant to advice from an actuary appointed by the board. (C) Prior to paying a retirement allowance, the public employees retirement system...

... a PERS law enforcement officer or PERS public safety officer by giving notice to the public employees retirement system on a form provided by the public employees retirement board. To be valid, the notice must be received by the retirement system not later than ninety days after the effective date of this section . The election, once made, causes the member to be considered a PERS law enforcement officer or PERS pub...

... section applies only to members of the public employees retirement system participating in the PERS combined plan, as defined in section 145.196 of the Revised Code, that was consolidated by the system with the PERS defined benefit plan under that section. (B)(1) When a member described in section 145.196 of the Revised Code retires on age and service retirement, the total annual single lifetime allowance for tha...

...ian" means a physician appointed by the public employees retirement board to conduct a medical examination of a disability benefit applicant or recipient. (2) "Medical consultant" means a physician appointed by the board to review a member's application for a disability benefit or an appeal of a denial or termination of a benefit. (3) "On-duty illness or injury" means an illness or injury that occurred during o...

...each first day of March thereafter, the public employees retirement board shall make and submit a report for the preceding fiscal year of the disability retirement experience of each employer. The report shall specify the total number of disability applications submitted, the status of each application as of the last day of the fiscal year, total applications granted or denied, and the percentage of disability benefi...

...plicable age, and is determined by the public employees retirement board under section 145.35 of the Revised Code to qualify for a disability benefit shall be retired on disability under this section. The applicable age is sixty if the member is described in division (A) or (B) of section 145.32 or division (A), (B), or (E)(1), (3), or (4) of section 145.332 of the Revised Code. It is sixty-two if the member ...

...r this section who is determined by the public employees retirement board under section 145.35 of the Revised Code to qualify for a disability benefit shall receive a disability allowance under this section. The allowance shall be an annual amount equal to the greater of the following: (1) Forty-five per cent of the member's final average salary; (2) The member's total service credit multiplied by two and two-t...

... disability benefit was received by the public employees retirement system before January 7, 2013, shall, regardless of when the disability occurred, retain membership status and shall be considered on leave of absence from employment during the first five years following the effective date of a disability benefit, notwithstanding any contrary provisions in this chapter. A disability benefit recipient whose applicat...

...ion for such benefit is received by the public employees retirement system on or after January 7, 2013, shall, regardless of when the disability occurred, apply for social security disability insurance benefit payments under 42 U.S.C. 423 if the recipient meets the requirements of divisions (a)(1)(A),(B), and (C) of that section. The application for a social security disability insurance benefit shall be made before ...