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...The state highway patrol retirement board shall establish and administer a deferred retirement option plan. In establishing and administering the plan, the board shall comply with sections 5505.51 to 5505.59 of the Revised Code and may do all things necessary to meet the requirements of section 401(a) of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," (26 U.S.C. 401(a)) as amended, applicable to governmental plans. The board s...

...A state highway patrol retirement system member who meets the following requirements may, at any time prior to applying for retirement under section 5505.16 of the Revised Code, elect to participate in the deferred retirement option plan established under section 5505.50 of the Revised Code: (A) The member is younger than fifty-eight years of age. (B) The member is eligible to apply for retirement under section 550...

...(A) A member who makes an election under section 5505.51 of the Revised Code shall continue in the active service of the state highway patrol but shall not earn service credit under this chapter for employment after the election's effective date. While the member is in the active service of the state highway patrol, the member shall contribute, and the state shall contribute and report, to the state highway patrol re...

...For each member who elects to participate in the deferred retirement option plan, the state highway patrol retirement system shall determine the member's pension amount under section 5505.17 of the Revised Code. In determining the pension amount, the retirement system shall use the member's total service credit and final average salary as of the last day of the employer's payroll period immediately prior to the effec...

...(A) During the period beginning on the effective date of an election to participate in the deferred retirement option plan and ending on the date participation ceases, a member's monthly pension amount determined under section 5505.53 of the Revised Code shall accrue to the member's benefit. To this amount shall be added any benefit increases the member would be eligible for under section 5505.174 of the Revise...

...A member's participation in the deferred retirement option plan ceases on the occurrence of the earliest of the following: (A) Termination of the member's active service in the state highway patrol; (B) The last day of the eight-year period that begins on the effective date of the member's election to participate in the plan; (C) The member's sixtieth birthday; (D) Acceptance by the member of a disability benefit...

...(A) A member participating in the deferred retirement option plan who terminates active service in the state highway patrol shall notify the state highway patrol retirement system of the date of termination on a form prescribed by the retirement system. The member is not eligible to make another election under section 5505.51 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) With regard to a member who was younger than age fifty-two on ...

...(A) On ceasing participation in the deferred retirement option plan as described in division (A), (B), or (C) of section 5505.55 of the Revised Code, a member shall select as the method of distribution of the amount accrued to the member under the plan one of the distribution options provided under section 401(a) of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," (26 U.S.C. 401(a)) as amended, applicable to governmental plans. ...

...(A) A member participating in the deferred retirement option plan who qualifies for disability retirement under division (B)(1) of section 5505.18 of the Revised Code shall elect to receive one of the following: (1) The applicable pension provided for in section 5505.53 of the Revised Code, plus any amounts that have accrued under section 5505.54 of the Revised Code to the member's benefit under the deferred retirem...

...If a member dies while participating in the deferred retirement option plan, all of the following apply: (A) The amounts accrued to the member's benefit shall be paid to the member's surviving spouse or, if there is no surviving spouse, the beneficiary designated by the member on a form provided by the state highway patrol retirement system. A member may designate an individual or a trust as a beneficiary. If there ...

...(A) Whoever violates division (A) of section 5505.045 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars for each day of the violation. (B) Whoever violates division (B) of section 5505.045 of the Revised Code shall be imprisoned for not more than six months or fined not more than five thousand dollars, or both. (C) Fines imposed by the Ohio elections commission under this section shall be paid i...

...All state highways established by law shall continue to be known as state highways, and the state highway system established by law shall continue to be known as the state highway system. Before establishing any additional highways as part of the state highway system, or making any significant changes in existing highways comprising the system, the director of transportation shall notify the general community of th...

...(A)(1) The director of transportation may lay out, establish, acquire, open, construct, improve, maintain, regulate, vacate, or abandon limited access highways or freeways in the same manner in which the director may lay out, establish, acquire, open, construct, improve, maintain, regulate, vacate, or abandon highways. The director, board, or municipal authority shall have all additional authority relative to such li...

...The director of transportation shall examine the existing highway facilities serving the several hospitals, educational institutions, and correctional and other similar institutions belonging to the state, and located outside municipal corporations. Where the director finds that any such state institution is not located on a state highway or connected with a highway by a suitable road, affording in its present ...

...The director of transportation may relocate and for that purpose construct or reconstruct the relocated portions of all roads, highways, and streets, within, leading through, or adjacent to any lands owned by a conservancy district organized under Chapter 6101. of the Revised Code or lands on which any conservancy district has a flood easement, construction easement, or right-of-way. The director may cooperate in th...

...The director of transportation may establish, construct, reconstruct, improve, repair, and maintain roads leading from a state highway to any state park, including all such parks and properties under the control and custody of the department of natural resources and the Ohio history connection, or roads leading from a state highway to any state property used for military purposes, or any road which leads along the si...

...The director of transportation may cooperate in the construction, reconstruction, improvement, repair, and maintenance of park drives or park roads within the boundaries of parks created under sections 511.18 to 511.34 and 1545.01 to 1545.22 of the Revised Code, together with roads leading from state highways to and into any such park. The director, after agreement with the board of park commissioners of any such pa...

...In pursuance of section 5501.31 of the Revised Code, the director of transportation, in vacating any highway or portion thereof on the state highway system that the director finds is no longer necessary for the purposes of a public highway, shall issue such a finding, which shall contain a description of the highway or part thereof to be vacated. Notice of such finding shall be published once a week, for two consecut...

...Within a county, any highway or bridge that is part of the state highway system may be officially assigned a distinctive name, commemorative of an historical event or personage or a commonly accepted and appropriate name, by which the highway or bridge is known. Upon agreement of the governing bodies of the county and each township and municipal corporation within the county through which the highway extends or...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, signs that indicate the presence of an area that is part of the national park system and are erected on highways that are part of the state highway system shall display the arrowhead symbol of the national park service as described in 36 C.F.R. 11.1 next to the name of the area. (B) All signs erected as of the effective date of this section that indicate the pr...

...The director of transportation shall develop the strategic initiatives of the department of transportation. Not more than six months after the effective date of this section, the director shall submit the strategic initiatives of the department to the transportation review advisory council.

...(A) The director of transportation shall develop a written project selection process for the prioritization of new transportation capacity projects. The director shall include the following in the process: (1) A description of how strategic initiatives submitted by the director are advanced by the process; (2) A definition of the kinds of projects to which the process applies; (3) Criteria that are used to rank pr...

...Upon completing the written project selection process for the prioritization of new transportation capacity projects, the director of transportation shall submit it to the transportation review advisory council. The council shall review the process, and approve it or make revisions.

...At least once every two years, the director of transportation shall prepare a fiscal forecast predicting or indicating the amount of funding expected to be available for construction of new transportation capacity projects during the period of the forecast. The forecast shall be consistent with the biennial budget approved by the general assembly. The transportation review advisory council shall develop and approve ...

...In performing its duty to develop the project selection process, and list of projects, the transportation review advisory council shall conduct no more than six public hearings per year at various locations around the state. At the hearings, the council shall accept public comment related to the project selection process, and on the merits of major new transportation projects. Members of the council shall attend the ...