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...onsultation with its actuary, the Ohio police and fire pension fund board of trustees determines that an adjustment to the age and years of service credit required to receive a pension or benefit under division (C) of section 742.37 of the Revised Code is appropriate, the board may, in accordance with rules adopted under section 742.10 of the Revised Code, do either of the following: (A) If the board's determ...

... chapter shall be submitted to the Ohio police and fire pension fund in the form and manner specified by the fund. The fund shall determine whether an application or election is complete and properly submitted. Its determination is final. If the fund determines that an application or election is incomplete or not properly submitted, it may give the person who submitted the application or election the opportunity to...

...le of the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund. (2) "Military service credit" means credit for service in the armed forces of the United States purchased or obtained from the fund, the Cincinnati retirement system, or a non-uniform retirement system. (3) "Non-uniform retirement system" or "non-uniform system" means the public employees retirement system, school employees retirement system,...

... the system and the fund. (2) The Ohio police and fire pension fund and Cincinnati retirement system, through their boards of trustees, enter into an agreement governing the transfers that is consistent with the requirements of sections 742.212 and 742.213 of the Revised Code and includes both of the following: (a) A provision under which the retirement system and the fund agree to transfer the amounts specified in...

...ised Code are met, a member of the Ohio police and fire pension fund who is not receiving a pension or benefit from the fund and is not a participant in the deferred retirement option plan established under section 742.43 of the Revised Code is eligible to obtain credit for service as a member of the Cincinnati retirement system under this section. (B) A member of the fund who has contributions on deposit with the C...

...s a member or former member of the Ohio police and fire pension fund but not a current contributor and who is not receiving a pension or benefit from the fund elects to receive credit under the Cincinnati retirement system for service for which the person contributed to the fund or purchased or obtained as military service credit, the fund shall transfer the amounts specified in division (B) or (C) of this section to...

...nced the employment covered by the Ohio police and fire pension fund for which the member is currently contributing to the fund. (B) A member of the Ohio police and fire pension fund who is in the active service of a police or fire department, has contributions on deposit with, but is no longer contributing to, a non-uniform retirement system, and is not a participant in the deferred retirement option plan establish...

...iving disability benefits from the Ohio police and fire pension fund and is restored to active duty as a member of a police or fire department shall, in computing years of service under section 742.37 or 742.39 of the Revised Code, be given service credit for the time the member was receiving such disability benefits. On restoration to active duty as a member of a police or fire department, the member shall make con...

...A member of the Ohio police and fire pension fund who, during the period of employment as a member of a police or fire department, is removed from active pay status due to pregnancy or a medical disability leave not exceeding one year for each such leave and who is not a participant in the deferred retirement option plan established under section 742.43 of the Revised Code shall, in computing years of active service ...

...r of the fund who is an employee of the police department of a municipal corporation, who has resigned or has been honorably discharged from membership in the fire department of the same municipal corporation, and who is not a participant in the deferred retirement option plan established under section 742.43 of the Revised Code shall, in computing years of service in the police department under section 742.37 or 742...

...rably discharged from membership in the police department of the same municipal corporation, and who is not a participant in the deferred retirement option plan established under section 742.43 of the Revised Code shall, in computing years of service in the fire department under section 742.37 or 742.39 of the Revised Code, be given full credit for the time served in such police department, provided the member has pa...

....02 or 741.02 of the Revised Code, or a police relief and pension fund, established pursuant to former section 741.32 of the Revised Code, on the date that the assets of the particular fund were transferred to the Ohio police and fire pension fund.

...(A) A member of the Ohio police and fire pension fund who is not a participant in the deferred retirement option plan established under section 742.43 of the Revised Code, in computing years of active service under division (C) of section 742.37 or section 742.39 of the Revised Code, shall be given full credit for full-time out-of-state or federal service, other than military service, purchased under this section. A ...

...han a disability benefit, from the Ohio police and fire pension fund. (B) The mortality table and interest rate used in determining actuarial present value shall be determined by the board of trustees of the fund based on the recommendations of an actuary employed by the board. (C)(1) An OPFPF retirant or other system retirant may be employed as a member of a police or fire department. If so employed, the retirant ...

...g employment. (B) A member of the Ohio police and fire pension fund who, during employment as a member of a police or fire department, is removed from active pay status by being laid off by the member's employer, shall, in computing years of active service under division (C) of section 742.37 or section 742.39 of the Revised Code, be given full credit for time for which contributions were not made during the period ...

...evised Code, shall be paid to the Ohio police and fire pension fund. Payments shall be credited to the police officers' pension reserve fund, or to the firefighters' pension reserve fund, in accordance with the relief and pension fund from which the liability for such payment arises, until such time as the employer's accrued liability on account of pensioners and other benefit recipients on the rolls of the pa...

...d by the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund. Upon certification by the board that payment of an employer's accrued liability has not been paid within thirty days following the date a payment is due, a penalty of five per cent of the amount due shall be assessed against such employer. If the payment and penalty have not been paid within ninety days following the date a payment is due, an...

...ge of the employee's salary to the Ohio police and fire pension fund according to the following schedule: (1) For salary earned in pay periods beginning not later than July 1, 2013, ten per cent; (2) For salary earned in pay periods beginning not earlier than July 2, 2013, but not later than July 1, 2014, ten and three-quarters per cent; (3) For salary earned in pay periods beginning not earlier than July 2,...

... in a report by the actuary of the Ohio police and fire pension fund for the forthcoming year. The actuarial calculations used by the actuary shall be based on the entry age normal actuarial cost method, and the adequacy of the contribution rates shall be reported on the basis of that method. The Ohio retirement study council shall make recommendations to the general assembly that it finds necessary for the proper f...

...y of the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund a report of employee deductions in such form as the board requires. The report shall show all deductions for the fund made pursuant to section 742.31 of the Revised Code and shall be accompanied by payments covering the total of such deductions. The report shall also include the name of each member for whom deductions were made and the portion ...

...es as the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund requires, from its general fund, or from a levy imposed pursuant to division (J), (W), or (JJ) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code, to the fund an amount known as the "police officer employers' contribution," which shall be nineteen and one-half per cent of the salaries as defined in division (L) of section 742.01 of the Revised Code of the membe...

...es as the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund requires, from its general fund, or from a levy imposed pursuant to division (I), (W), or (JJ) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code, to the fund an amount known as the "firefighter employers' contribution," which shall be twenty-four per cent of the salaries as defined in division (L) of section 742.01 of the Revised Code of the members of the fir...

...Each employer shall pay its police officer employers' contribution and firefighter employers' contribution in monthly payments as provided in sections 742.33 and 742.34 of the Revised Code. The employer shall make each payment not later than the last day of the month after the month for which the police officer or firefighter employee contributions were withheld. If an employer fails to make the payment install...

...n 742.444 of the Revised Code, the Ohio police and fire pension fund shall request from the employer verification of the member's termination date and any other information the fund determines necessary to calculate and pay a pension under division (C) of section 742.37 of the Revised Code. The request shall be on a form created by the fund and specify the date by which the information must be received by the fund, ...

... (C) The board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund may adopt rules to do all of the following: (1) Establish penalties in amounts that do not exceed the amounts described in this section; (2) Establish standards to determine whether an employer has submitted a report in the form required by the board; (3) Lengthen the periods of time for employers to comply with sections 742.32, 742.35, and 742.5...