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...(A) Interest compounded annually shall be credited to the accounts of members participating in the STRS defined benefit plan and to the various funds listed in divisions (A) to (F) of section 3307.14 of the Revised Code, and shall be assumed in determining actuarial factors, at rates recommended by the actuary and approved by the state teachers retirement board, but not less than three and twenty-five hundredths per ...

...If the state teachers retirement board discontinues health care coverage authorized under section 3307.39 of the Revised Code, on satisfaction of all liabilities for health care coverage at the time of the discontinuance of coverage, the board shall transfer any surplus in the health care fund established under division (H) of section 3307.14 of the Revised Code in a fair and appropriate manner to the employers...

...to influence the governance of any corporation. To facilitate investment of the funds, the board may establish a partnership, trust, limited liability company, corporation, including a corporation exempt from taxation under the Internal Revenue Code, 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C. 1, as amended, or any other legal entity authorized to transact business in this state. (B) In exercising its fiduciary responsibility with...

...r any partnership, association, or corporation that is owned or controlled by, a person, who within the preceding three years was employed by, an officer, or a board member of the system or in which a person, who within the preceding three years was employed by, a board member of, or an officer of the system holds a fiduciary, administrative, supervisory or trust position, or any other position in which such person w...

...(A) As used in this section and in section 3307.154 of the Revised Code: (1) "Agent" means a dealer, as defined in section 1707.01 of the Revised Code, who is licensed under sections 1707.01 to 1707.50 of the Revised Code or under comparable laws of another state or of the United States. (2) "Minority business enterprise" has the same meaning as in section 122.71 of the Revised Code. (3) "Ohio-qualified agent" ...

...(A) The state teachers 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) Has...

...No trustee and no employee of the state teachers 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 for his services. No trustee or employee of the said board, directly or indirectly, for himself or as an agent or partner of others, shall borrow any of its funds or deposits or use t...

...neficiaries; or (3) Receive any consideration for the fiduciary's own personal account from any party dealing with such system in connection with a transaction involving the assets of the system. (D) In addition to any liability which the fiduciary may have under any other provision, a fiduciary with respect to the system shall be liable for a breach of fiduciary responsibility of any fiduciary with respect to the ...

...The state teachers retirement board shall provide for the maintenance of an individual account for each contributor showing the amount of the contributor's contributions and any accumulations thereon.

..., when necessary for the proper administration of the fund, to the board assigned physician. (b) Documentation required by section 2929.193 of the Revised Code shall be provided to a court holding a hearing under that section. (2) No medical report or recommendation received by the board under section 3307.48, 3307.62, or 3307.66 of the Revised Code shall be released to the individual concerned or considered a medi...

...Each employer, before employing any teacher to whom this chapter applies, shall notify such person of the person's duties and obligations under this chapter as a condition of the person's employment. Any such appointment or reappointment of any teacher in the public day schools of the state, or service upon indefinite tenure, shall be conditioned upon the teacher's acceptance of this chapter, as a part of the contra...

...During September of each year, or at such other time as the state teachers retirement board approves, each employer shall certify to the board the names of all teachers to whom this chapter applies.

...Each employer shall on the first day of each calendar month, or at such less frequent intervals as the state teachers retirement board approves, notify the board of removals, withdrawals, and changes in compensation of teachers that have occurred during the month preceding or the period since the period covered by the last notification. Not later than ten days after the date of hire, each employer shall notify the b...

...Each employer shall keep such records and shall furnish such information and assistance to the state teachers retirement board as it requires in the discharge of its duties.

...On receipt of notice under section 3307.212 of the Revised Code of the employment of a new teacher, the state teachers retirement system shall inform the teacher of the requirements of section 3307.25 of the Revised Code.

...To the extent to which it is used in determining the liability of any fund created by section 3307.14 of the Revised Code, the state teachers retirement board shall verify the information provided under section 3307.213 of the Revised Code by the best evidence it is able to obtain. If official records are not available as to the length of service of a teacher, compensation, or other information required, the board m...

...ed to have an educator license or registration, and it may also make optional with teachers in any such class their right to contribute, or their right to individual entrance into membership. The state teachers retirement board may at any time deny the right to contribute or the right to membership to any teacher whose compensation, though disbursed by an employer, is reimbursed to the employer, in whole or in part...

...(A) An individual who becomes a member of the state teachers retirement system on or after the date on which the state teachers retirement board establishes an STRS defined contribution plan 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 STRS defined benefit plan or one of the STRS def...

...As used in this section, "accumulated contributions" and "total service credit" have the same meanings as in section 3307.50 of the Revised Code. (A) A member of the state teachers retirement system who, as of the thirtieth day of June immediately preceding the date on which the system establishes an STRS defined contribution plan, has less than five years of total service credit is eligible to make an election unde...

...A member of the state teachers retirement system who elects to participate in an STRS defined contribution plan shall be ineligible for any benefit or payment under the STRS defined benefit plan and, except as provided in section 3307.25 of the Revised Code, shall be forever barred from claiming or purchasing service credit with the system or any other Ohio state retirement system for service covered by the ele...

...(A) Each teacher shall contribute a certain per cent of the teacher's earned compensation, except that the per cent shall be not greater than fourteen per cent of the teacher's compensation. The per cent shall be as follows: (1) For compensation earned not later than June 30, 2013, ten per cent; (2) For compensation earned on or after July 1, 2013, but not later than June 30, 2014, eleven per cent; (3) For compens...

...Except as otherwise provided in section 124.385 of the Revised Code, any teacher who is granted disability leave pursuant to a program sponsored by the teacher's employer, whereby the teacher receives a percentage of the teacher's salary while on disability leave, shall not be required to make contributions for time off while on disability leave. Except as otherwise provided in section 124.385 of the Revised Code, e...

...The contributions required under section 3307.26 of the Revised Code may be paid by the employer in accordance with division (h) of section 414 of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C.A. 414(h), as amended.

...Each employer shall pay to the state teachers retirement system an amount which shall be a certain per cent of the earnable compensation of all members, and which shall be known as the "employer contribution." Each employer shall remit the employer contribution at intervals required by the state teachers retirement system. For members participating in the STRS defined benefit plan, the employer contribution shall be ...

...Each employer shall cause to be deducted, on each payroll of a contributor for each payroll period, the contribution payable by such contributor as provided in this chapter. Each employer shall certify to the treasurer of said employer on each payroll a statement as voucher for the amounts so deducted and for the amount of the normal contribution and the deficiency contribution payable by the employer. Each employer ...