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...The right of an individual to a pension, an annuity, or a retirement allowance itself, the right of an individual to any optional benefit, any other right accrued or accruing to any individual, under this chapter, or under any municipal retirement system established subject to this chapter under the laws of this state or any charter, the various funds created by this chapter, or under such municipal retirement system...

...to any person pursuant to action of the public employees retirement board vests a right in such person, so long as the person remains the recipient of any benefit of the funds established by section 145.23 of the Revised Code, to receive such retirement allowance, annuity, pension, or other benefit at the rate fixed at the time of granting such retirement allowance, annuity, pension, or other benefit. Such righ...

...ing a written notice of waiver with the public employees retirement board. Except as provided in division (B) of this section, such waiver shall remain in effect until the first day of the month following his death or the filing of his written cancellation of such waiver with the public employees retirement board. Any amount so waived shall be forever forfeited. (B) If a beneficiary waives in writing all claim to an...

...n 145.561 of the Revised Code: (A) The public employees retirement system may adjust an allowance or benefit payable under this chapter if an error occurred in calculation of the allowance or benefit; (B) If any person who is a member, former member, contributor, former contributor, retirant, beneficiary, or alternate payee, as defined in section 3105.80 of the Revised Code, is paid any benefit or payment by the pu...

...Any person receiving from the public employees retirement system an allowance, annuity, pension, or benefit may authorize the system to make deductions therefrom for the payment of dues and other membership fees to any retirement association or other organization composed primarily of retired public employees or retired public employees and their spouses if the association or organization adopts a resolution approvin...

...on 2921.41 of the Revised Code, and the public employees retirement board shall comply with that withholding order in making the payment. (B) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, if the board receives notice pursuant to section 2907.15 of the Revised Code or division (D) of section 2921.41 of the Revised Code that a person who has accumulated contributions standing to the person's credit pursuant to ...

..."lump sum payment," "participant," and "public retirement program" have the same meanings as in section 3105.80 of the Revised Code. (B) On receipt of an order issued under section 3105.171 or 3105.65 of the Revised Code, the public employees retirement system shall determine whether the order meets the requirements of sections 3105.80 to 3105.90 of the Revised Code. The system shall retain in the participant's reco...

... 145.383 of the Revised Code. (2) The public employees retirement system shall comply with a forfeiture order issued under division (A) or (B) of section 2929.192 of the Revised Code at the time the member or contributor applies for payment of the person's accumulated contributions. Upon payment of the person's contributions and cancellation of any corresponding service credit, a person who is subject to the ...

...tion 2929.193 of the Revised Code. The public employees retirement board shall comply with the order. On receipt of notice under section 2901.43 of the Revised Code that a public employees retirement system member is charged with an offense listed in division (D) of section 2929.192 of the Revised Code under the circumstances specified in that division, the system shall determine whether the member has been g...

... chapter, any right of a member of the public employees retirement system to a disability benefit is subject to a forfeiture order issued under section 2929.194 of the Revised Code. If the retirement system receives notice under section 2901.431 of the Revised Code that felony charges have been filed against a member, the retirement system shall not grant the member a disability benefit unless it determines t...

... same individual by the Ohio police and fire pension fund, state teachers retirement system, school employees retirement system, or state highway patrol retirement system. (E) The board shall make all other necessary rules pursuant to the purpose and intent of this section.

... retirement system, the Ohio police and fire pension fund, the state teachers retirement system, the school employees retirement system, and the state highway patrol retirement system. (B) The public employees retirement board may establish a long-term care insurance program consisting of the programs authorized by divisions (C) and (D) of this section. Such program may be established independently or jointly with o...

...If the public employees retirement system, between June 1, 1992, and December 31, 1992, informed a member in writing that, as a recipient of age and service retirement, the member will receive health care coverage, the system shall grant full-time service credit to the member for each month of contributing service as an elected official prior to December 31, 1987, only for the purpose of health care coverage under se...

...expenses. To implement the program, the public employees retirement board may enter into agreements with insurance companies or other entities authorized to conduct business in this state. If the PERS defined benefit plan or a PERS defined contribution plan includes a program described in this section, the board shall adopt rules to establish and administer the program.

...n (B) of this section, the board of the public employees retirement system shall make available to each retirant or disability benefit recipient receiving a monthly allowance or benefit on or after January 1, 1968, who has attained the age of sixty-five years, and who is not eligible to receive hospital insurance benefits under the federal old age, survivors, and disability insurance program without payment of premiu...

...Subject to rules adopted by the public employees retirement system under section 145.09 of the Revised Code, a contributor participating in the PERS defined benefit plan or contributing under section 145.38 or 145.383 of the Revised Code may deposit additional amounts in the employees' savings fund established under section 145.23 of the Revised Code. The additional deposits may be made either directly to the retirem...

...e spouse's consent to the refund or the public employees retirement board waives the requirement that the spouse consent; (7) In the case of a contributor who has attained eligibility for an age and service retirement benefit as a consequence of section 145.37 of the Revised Code and will receive a retirement or disability benefit from the state teachers retirement system or school employees retirement system but ha...

... 2007, may file an application with the public employees retirement system for a benefit under this section. Except as provided in section 145.62 of the Revised Code, the benefit shall consist of an annuity that shall be paid as described in division (B) of section 145.46 of the Revised Code. The application must be filed prior to receipt of an age and service retirement benefit from the retirement system or, in the...

...duly executed on a form provided by the public employees retirement system, signed by the contributor, and filed with the system prior to the contributor's death. A contributor may designate two or more persons as beneficiaries. Subject to rules adopted by the public employees retirement board, a contributor who designates two or more persons as beneficiaries under this division shall specify the percentage of the de...

...The public employees retirement board shall prepare and certify to the director of budget and management and to the heads of the departments, on or before the first day of November of each even-numbered year, the employer's rate of contribution, which, when applied to earnable salaries to be paid from state funds for positions covered by the public employees retirement system, will produce the amount necessary to pay...

...All amounts due the public employees retirement system from the state treasury pursuant to this chapter shall be promptly paid upon warrant of the director of budget and management pursuant to a voucher approved by the director.

...The public employees retirement board shall adopt rules to implement each PERS defined contribution plan.

...The public employees retirement board shall establish the PERS defined contribution plans, which shall be one or more plans consisting of benefit options that provide for an individual account for each participating member and under which benefits are based solely on the amounts that have accumulated in the account. The plans may include options under which a member participating in a plan may receive definitely dete...

...Each PERS defined contribution plan shall qualify as a governmental plan under section 414(d) of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C.A. 414(d), as amended, and meet the requirements of section 401(a), of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 26 U.S.C.A. 401(a), as amended, applicable to governmental plans.

...Each PERS defined contribution plan shall meet the requirements necessary to qualify as a retirement system maintained by a state or local government entity under section 3121(b)(7)(F) of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C.A. 3121(b)(7)(F), as amended. Each participant in a plan shall qualify as a member of that system.