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...The public employees retirement system shall administer the PERS defined benefit plan and the PERS defined contribution plans.

...irement board, in consultation with the Ohio ethics commission, shall review any existing policy regarding the travel and payment of travel expenses of members and employees of the public employees retirement board and adopt rules in accordance with section 145.09 of the Revised Code establishing a new or revised policy regarding travel and payment of travel expenses. Not less than sixty days before adopting a new or...

...t board shall, in consultation with the Ohio ethics commission, develop an ethics policy to govern board members and employees in the performance of their official duties. The board shall submit this policy to the commission for approval. The commission shall review the policy and, if the commission determines that the policy is adequate, approve the policy. If the commission determines that the policy is inadequate...

...e Revised Code, the "Commodity Exchange Act," 42 Stat. 998, 7 U.S.C. and following, the "Securities Act of 1933," 48 Stat. 74, 15 U.S.C. and following, and the "Securities Exchange Act of 1934," 48 Stat. 881, 15 U.S.C. 78a, and following, and the rules and regulations promulgated under those statutes. This duty of reasonable supervision shall include the adoption, implementation, and enforcement of written policies a...

...etirement study council a report of its actions during the preceding year.

...neral shall be the legal adviser of the public employees retirement board.

... appropriate court in Franklin county, Ohio.

...s then prevailing that a prudent person acting in a like capacity and familiar with these matters would use in the conduct of an enterprise of a like character and with like aims; and by diversifying the investments of the system so as to minimize the risk of large losses, unless under the circumstances it is clearly prudent not to do so. The board, in accordance with its fiduciary duties described under this secti...

...s chapter, no member or employee of the public employees retirement board shall have any interest direct or indirect in the gains or profits of any investment made by the board nor as such directly or indirectly receive any pay or emolument of the member's or employee's services. No member or person connected with the board directly or indirectly, for self or as an agent or partner of others, shall borrow any of its...

...The public employees retirement system shall make no investments through or purchases from, or otherwise do any business with any individual who is, or any partnership, association, or corporation that is owned or controlled by, a person who within the preceding three years was employed by, a board member of, or an officer of the public employees retirement system, or in which a person who within the preceding three ...

...s retirement system to engage in a transaction, if he knows or should know that such transaction constitutes a direct or indirect: (1) Sale or exchange, or leasing, of any property between the system and a party in interest; (2) Lending of money or other extension of credit between the system and a party in interest; (3) Furnishing of goods, services, or facilities between the system and a party in interest; (4) ...

...elect agents to execute securities transactions on behalf of the retirement system. The policy shall address each of the following: (1) Commissions charged by the agent, both in the aggregate and on a per share basis; (2) The execution speed and trade settlement capabilities of the agent; (3) The responsiveness, reliability, and integrity of the agent; (4) The nature and value of research provided by the agen...

...tem 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 in division (A)(1) of this section. (B...

..., 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) Has its corporate headquarters or principal place of business in this state; (b) ...

...d to each employer, except the state of Ohio, mentioned in division (D) of section 145.01 of the Revised Code, prior to the fifteenth day of July of each year, a certification of the rate necessary to pay the obligation of each county, municipal corporation, park district, conservancy district, health district, township, metropolitan housing authority, or public library accruing during the year beginning the first da...

... be in the denomination required by the public employees retirement board in its resolution of purchase.

...For the purpose of meeting disbursements for annuities and other payments in excess of the receipts, there shall be kept available by the treasurer of state an amount not exceeding ten per cent of the total amount in the funds provided for by this chapter on deposit in any bank or banks in this state, organized under the laws thereof, or under the laws of the United States, or with any trust company or trust companie...

... of each department shall submit to the public employees retirement board a statement showing the name, sex, title, earnable salary, duties, date of birth, and length of service as a public employee of every public employee in his department.

...Each public employee shall file a detailed statement of all his previous service as a public employee and shall furnish such other information as the public employees retirement board requires for the proper operation of the system. The employee shall file the statement within thirty days of commencing employment. If he fails to do so within that time, the board shall notify his employer's fiscal officer. On receip...

... day of each calendar month, notify the public employees retirement board of the employment or the entering into office of new public employees, and shall submit to the board a statement showing the names, sex, title, earnable salary, duties, and date of birth of the new public employees, and shall also notify the board at the same time of all removals, withdrawals, and changes in salary of any contributors to the pu...

...Revised Code of the employment of a new public employee, the public employees retirement system shall inform the employee of the requirements of section 145.19 of the Revised Code.

...head of each department shall keep such records as will enable him to furnish information in such form as the board requires in the discharge of its duties.

...n under this section is received by the public employees retirement system on or before the last day of the one-hundred-eighty-day period, the individual is deemed to have elected to participate in the PERS defined benefit plan. (B) An election under this section shall be made on a form provided by the system and filed with the system. (C) An election under this section shall take effect on the date employmen...

...ided 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 to this chapter. ...

...ice credit with the system or any other Ohio state retirement system, as defined in section 145.30 of the Revised Code, for service covered by the election.