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...nt admitted as a patient of a veterans' home operated under Chapter 5907. of the Revised Code, and no resident of a county home shall be considered as a public employee for the purpose of establishing membership or calculating service credit or benefits under this chapter. Nothing in this division shall be construed to affect any service credit attained by any person who was a public employee before becoming an inmat...

...(A) The office of a member of the public employees retirement board who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a felony, a theft offense as defined in section 2913.01 of the Revised Code, or a violation of section 102.02, 102.03, 102.04, 2921.02, 2921.11, 2921.13, 2921.31, 2921.41, 2921.42, 2921.43, or 2921.44 of the Revised Code shall be deemed vacant. A person who has pleaded guilty to or been convicted of an of...

...(A) Notwithstanding division (C) of section 121.22 of the Revised Code, the public employees retirement board may adopt a policy that allows a board member to attend a meeting of the board by means of video conference. The board shall include in the policy, if adopted, both of the following: (1) The number of regular meetings at which each board member shall be present in person, provided that number is not less th...

...(A) The public employees retirement board shall designate a person who is a licensed state retirement system investment officer to be the chief investment officer for the public employees retirement system. The board shall notify the division of securities of the department of commerce in writing of its designation and of any change in its designation within ten calendar days of the designation or change. (B) The ch...

...(A) The public employees retirement system shall disclose the following to the Ohio ethics commission: (1) Anything of value received by the system from an agent and anything of value given on behalf of the system by an agent; (2) The name of any employee of the system with authority over the investment of retirement system funds or any board member of the system who deals with an agent regarding amounts described ...

...(A) The public employees retirement board shall, for the purposes of this section, designate an investment manager as an Ohio-qualified investment manager if the investment manager meets all of the following requirements: (1) The investment manager is subject to taxation under Chapter 5725., 5726., 5733., 5747., or 5751. of the Revised Code; (2) The investment manager meets one of the following requirements: (a) H...

...(A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, an individual who becomes employed in a position subject to this chapter on or after January 1, 2003, shall make an election under this section. Not later than one hundred eighty days after the date on which employment begins, the individual shall elect to participate either in the PERS defined benefit plan or a PERS defined contribution plan. Unless a for...

...(A) Except as provided in division (F) of this section, a public employees retirement system member or contributor who, as of December 31, 2002, has less than five years of total service credit is eligible to make an election under this section. A member or contributor who is employed in more than one position subject to this chapter is eligible to make only one election. The election applies to all positions subject...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Individual account" means the account maintained for a member of the PERS combined plan in the defined contribution fund created in section 145.23 of the Revised Code, in which the member's contributions under section 145.85 of the Revised Code are deposited and credited. (2) "PERS combined plan" means the hybrid plan established under section 145.81 of the Revised Code that in...

...(A) Subject to the limit described in division (C) of this section, any member who is or has been an elected official of the state or any political subdivision thereof or has been appointed either by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate or directly by the speaker of the house of representatives or president of the senate to serve full-time as a member of a board, commission, or other public body may...

...(A) As used in this section, "school board member" means a member of a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district board of education and "governing board member" means a member of an educational service center governing board. (B) A member of the public employees retirement system may purchase credit for service as a school board member if all of the following conditions are met: (1) ...

...(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...

...(A) A member with disability coverage under 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 ...

...the public employees retirement system, school employees retirement system, or state teachers retirement system. (2) "Total service credit" means all service credit earned in the state retirement systems, except credit for service subject to section 145.38 of the Revised Code. Total service credit shall not exceed one year of credit for any twelve-month period. (3) In addition to the meaning given in division (N) o...

...(A) Upon the death of a retirant or disability benefit recipient, who at the time of death is receiving an age and service retirement benefit or a disability benefit from this system, a death benefit shall be paid, following the completion of an application on a form approved by the public employees retirement board, to one of the following in the order given: (1) The person the retirant or disability benefit recipi...

...(A) Each public employee who is a contributor to the public employees retirement system shall contribute eight per cent of the contributor's earnable salary to the employees' savings fund, except that the public employees retirement board may raise the contribution rate to a rate not greater than ten per cent of the employee's earnable salary. (B) The head of each state department, institution, board, and co...

...(A) Notwithstanding section 145.47 of the Revised Code: (1) The public employees retirement system shall be authorized to calculate the employee contribution rates separately for those public employees contributing toward benefits as PERS public safety officers under section 145.332 of the Revised Code. (2) Each public employee contributing toward benefits as PERS law enforcement officers under section 145.33...

...e 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 one or more of the other retirement systems. If the program is...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (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 ...

...(A) Except as provided in divisions (B) and (C) of this section, sections 145.201 to 145.70 of the Revised Code do not apply to a PERS defined contribution plan, except that a PERS defined contribution plan may incorporate provisions of those sections as specified in the plan document. (B) The following sections of Chapter 145. of the Revised Code apply to a PERS defined contribution plan: 145.01 to 145.20, 145.22, ...

...(A) The secretary of state may appoint and commission as notaries public as many persons who meet the qualifications of division (B) of this section as the secretary of state considers necessary. (B) In order for a person to qualify to be appointed and commissioned as a notary public, except as provided in division (F) of this section, the person shall demonstrate to the secretary of state that the person satisfie...

...(A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, a commission for a notary public appointed prior to the effective date of this section shall remain valid until that commission's expiration date. (2) A commission issued to an attorney shall be governed by section 147.03 of the Revised Code. (B) A commission that is set to expire as described in section 147.03 of the Revised Code or as in division (A) ...

...(A) A notary public shall not do any of the following: (1) Perform a notarial act with regard to a record or document executed by the notary; (2) Notarize the notary's own signature; (3) Take the notary's own deposition; (4) Perform a notarial act if the notary has a conflict of interest with regard to the transaction in question; (5) Certify that a document is either of the following: (a) An original doc...

...Any acknowledgment or proof of execution of a deed, mortgage, lease, power of attorney, or other instrument that was taken, and any other notarial act that was performed, by a commissioned officer in active service with the armed forces of the United States for a person who was a member of the armed forces of the United States, for a person who was accompanying the armed forces of the United States, or for a person w...

...(A) A notary public has personal knowledge of the identity of the person appearing before the notary public if the person is personally known to the notary public through dealings sufficient to provide reasonable certainty that the person has the identity claimed. (B) A notary public has satisfactory evidence of the identity of the person appearing before the notary public if the notary public can identify the pers...