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...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...

...rson 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 chief investment officer shall reasonably supervise the licensed...

...hall annually prepare and submit to the Ohio retirement study council a report of its actions during the preceding year.

...e legal adviser of the public employees retirement board.

...stering the public employees retirement system; with care, skill, prudence, and diligence under the circumstances 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 ...

...ber 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 funds or deposit...

...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 ...

...t cause the public employees 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...

..., 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...

...ation 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...

...nt 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.

...equires 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 receipt of the notice, the fiscal officer shall withhold all salary payments to the employee until the statement is filed with the board.

...tors to the public employees retirement system that has occurred during the preceding month.

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

...r the direction of the public employees retirement board, the 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.

...ved 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 employment began and, except as provid...

... 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. Not later than June 30, 200...

...Except as provided in section 145.194 or division (C)(4) of section 3305.05 and division (F) of section 3305.051 of the Revised Code, an election made or deemed to have been made under section 145.19 or 145.191 of the Revised Code applies to all positions subject to this chapter for which the member is contributing under section 145.47 or 145.85 of the Revised Code. A member who terminates employment in all ...

... a PERS law enforcement officer or PERS public safety officer shall cease making contributions to a PERS defined contribution plan. During employment as a PERS law enforcement officer or a PERS public safety officer and any concurrent employment in a position subject to this chapter, the member shall contribute only to the PERS defined benefit plan. (B) A member described in division (A) of this section with contrib...

...The public employees retirement system may, in accordance with rules it adopts under this section, permit a member who participated in both the PERS defined benefit plan and one or more PERS defined contribution plans to combine years of service as a member for the purpose of determining eligibility for a benefit under section 145.32, 145.331, 145.332, or 145.335 of the Revised Code, or a benefit under a PERS defined...

... (B) The public employees retirement system may, in accordance with rules it adopts under this section, consolidate the PERS combined plan with the PERS defined benefit plan for the purpose of administering the definitely determinable benefits under the PERS combined plan and the allowance payable under section 145.335 of the Revised Code. (C) If the system consolidates the PERS combined plan with the PERS defi...

... section, the member shall pay into the employees' savings fund an amount specified by the public employees retirement board that is equal to one hundred per cent of the additional liability resulting from the purchase of that year or portion of a year of credit as determined by an actuary employed by the board. The member shall receive full credit for such additional elective service in computing an allowance or ben...