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...(A) In addition to the authority provided in section 135.14 or 135.143 of the Revised Code for the investment or deposit of interim moneys, the treasurer of state or the treasurer or governing board of a political subdivision, upon the deposit of interim moneys with, or the award of active or inactive deposits to, an eligible public depository described in section 135.03 of the Revised Code and designated pursuant to...

...Unless expressly authorized by the laws of this state, the treasurer or the governing board of a municipal corporation shall not do either of the following: (A) Make an investment decision with the primary purpose of influencing any environmental, social, personal, or ideological policy; (B) Permit any person or entity to which the treasurer or governing board delegates the management of the investment of public ...

...(A) Any national bank, any bank doing business under authority granted by the superintendent of financial institutions, or any bank doing business under authority granted by the regulatory authority of another state of the United States, located in this state, is eligible to become a public depository, subject to sections 135.31 to 135.40 of the Revised Code. No bank shall receive or have on deposit at any one time p...

...Whenever any deposit or investment acquired under section 135.35 of the Revised Code matures and becomes due and payable, the investing authority shall present it for payment according to its terms and shall collect the moneys payable thereon, provided that the principal may be reinvested without withdrawal. The money so collected shall be public moneys. Whenever the board of county commissioners, county treasurer, ...

...A county treasurer, county deputy treasurer, or members of a board of county commissioners, when acting as investing authorities, and their bondsmen or sureties shall be relieved from any liability for the loss of any public moneys deposited or invested by them when they have acted pursuant to law or an ordinance or resolution adopted by a county pursuant to a charter adopted under Article X, Ohio Constitution, but ...

...The Ohio history connection and the capitol square review and advisory board shall be eligible to pay any of their moneys into the Ohio subdivision's fund, to be invested by the treasurer of state in the same manner and subject to the same terms and conditions as public moneys of subdivisions paid into the fund under section 135.45 of the Revised Code.

...Each volunteer peace officers' dependents fund board may adopt rules as necessary for handling and processing claims for benefits. The board shall perform such other duties as are necessary to implement this chapter.

...Notwithstanding section 145.016 of the Revised Code, the public employees retirement board shall grant a full year of service credit to a member of the retirement system if all of the following conditions are met: (A) The member is employed by a county board of developmental disabilities. (B) The member's employment is in a position that would be covered by Chapter 3309. of the Revised Code if the member was empl...

...(A) A public employees retirement system is hereby created for the public employees of the state and of the several local authorities mentioned in section 145.01 of the Revised Code. Except as provided in division (B) of this section, membership in the system is compulsory upon being employed and shall continue as long as public employment continues. (B) A student who is not a member at the time of his employment wi...

...(A) Notwithstanding section 145.03 of the Revised code, any employee of the Hamilton county municipal court on January 16, 1978, who was in the employ of the city of Cincinnati in the Hamilton county municipal court and was appointed or employed by the court, the clerk of courts or the Cincinnati city manager, and whose salary was paid by the city of Cincinnati and who was a contributing member of the city of Cincinn...

...(A) Notwithstanding section 145.03 of the Revised Code, any employee of the Hamilton county department of air pollution control on January 1, 1980, who was in the employ of the city of Cincinnati in the division of air pollution control and was employed by the Cincinnati city manager, and whose salary was paid by the city of Cincinnati and who was a contributing member of the city of Cincinnati retirement system prio...

...(A) Notwithstanding section 145.03 of the Revised Code, any employee of the Hamilton county sheriff on July 1, 1981, who was in the employ of the city of Cincinnati in the Cincinnati correctional institute and who was a contributing member of the city of Cincinnati retirement system prior to that date may choose to be exempt from compulsory membership in the public employees retirement system and to continue contribu...

...Notwithstanding section 145.03 of the Revised Code, an individual employed by, or otherwise compensated with state funds appropriated to, the department of development who is principally located outside of the United States and is or intends to become a member of a foreign government's retirement or social security system in lieu of becoming a member of the public employees retirement system may choose to be exempted...

...Any action brought against the public employees retirement system or the public employees retirement board or its officers, employees, or board members in their official capacities shall be brought in the appropriate court in Franklin county, Ohio.

...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 ...

...Under 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.

...The public employees retirement board shall provide for the maintenance of an individual account with each contributor showing the amount of the contributor's contributions and the interest accumulations thereon. It shall collect and keep in convenient form such data as is necessary for the preparation of the required mortality and service tables, and for an actuarial valuation of the assets and liabilities of the va...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Compensation" means both of the following: (a) In the case of a public employees retirement system member, the member's earnable salary; (b) In the case of an electing employee, the amount that would be the electing employee's earnable salary if the electing employee was a member of the retirement system. (2) "Compensation ratio" means the ratio for the most recent full fis...

...(A) As used in this section, "paying system" and "transferring system" have the same meanings as in section 145.37 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Except as provided in division (B)(2) of this section, a member of the public employees retirement system with at least eighteen months of contributing service in the system, the state teachers retirement system, or the school employees retirement system who exempted self fro...

...(A) As used in this section and section 145.2913 of the Revised Code: (1) "Uniform retirement system" or "uniform system" means the Ohio police and fire pension fund or state highway patrol retirement system. (2) "Military service credit" means credit purchased or obtained under this chapter or Chapter 742. or 5505. of the Revised Code for service in the armed forces of the United States. (B) A member of the publi...

...(A) If the conditions described in division (B) of section 145.2910 of the Revised Code are met, a member of the public employees retirement system who is not receiving a pension or benefit from the public employees retirement system is eligible to obtain credit for service as a member of the Cincinnati retirement system under this section. (B) A member of the public employees retirement system who has contributions...

...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the public employees retirement board shall annually increase each allowance, pension, or benefit payable under this chapter. Until the last day of December of the fifth full calendar year after the effective date of this amendment, the increase shall be three per cent. For each succeeding calendar year, the increase shall be as follows: (1) For each allowance, ...

...A member who has elected disability coverage under this section, has not attained the applicable age, and is determined by the public employees retirement board under section 145.35 of the Revised Code to qualify for a disability benefit shall be retired on disability under this section. The applicable age is sixty if the member is described in division (A) or (B) of section 145.32 or division (A), (B), or (E...

...This section does not apply to a disability recipient who, at the time contributing service terminated, was a PERS law enforcement officer. (A) A recipient of a disability benefit granted under this chapter whose application for such benefit is received by the public employees retirement system on or after January 7, 2013, shall, regardless of when the disability occurred, apply for social security disability insura...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "State retirement system" means the public employees retirement system, school employees retirement system, or state teachers retirement system. (2) "Total service credit" means all service credit earned in the state retirement systems, except credit for service subject to section 145.38 of the Revised Code. Total service credit shall not exceed one year of credit for any twelve-mon...

...From a point where the seam is reached in the opening of an underground mine, to a point not exceeding a distance of four hundred feet therefrom, break-throughs shall be made between mine entries, where there are no rooms worked, not more than one hundred feet apart, provided such entries are not advanced beyond the point where the break-through will be made until the break-through is complete. Break-throughs between...

...The operator of a mine shall provide and maintain, in safe condition for the purpose provided, two separate and distinct traveling ways from the interior workings of the mine, each of which shall be available to at least one opening to the surface. One of such traveling ways may be designated by such operator as the principal traveling way. One of such traveling ways shall be designated as the escapement way, which s...

...The operator of a mine worked by shaft shall provide, and keep free from obstruction, a traveling way or passageway from one side of the shaft bottom to the other. Slopes and mechanical haulageways used as traveling ways by persons employed in a mine shall be made of a sufficient width to give not less than three feet of space between the rib and adjacent side of car or mechanical device to permit persons to pass mo...

...For the protection of transportation workers, track shall be laid to provide a minimum clearance of fourteen inches on the side of the entry opposite the trolley or feed wire at all haulage turnouts and crossovers between butt entries, on gathering passageways, on room entries, and chutes between room entries, except that where brake handles are on the side of mine cars, the clearance shall be provided on the wire si...

...The permanent boilers used for generating steam, and the buildings containing the boilers, shall not be nearer than sixty feet to any mine opening, or to a building or inflammable structure connected with or surrounding such opening. No owner, lessee, agent, or operator of a mine shall violate this section.

...Each operator of an underground coal mine shall provide bathing facilities, clothing change rooms, and sanitary toilet facilities in a location at each mine convenient for the use of all mine employees. All such bathing facilities, change rooms, and sanitary toilet facilities shall be constructed and equipped so as to comply with applicable building codes. If no building code is applicable, such facilities shall be c...

...In all mines generating methane in such quantities as to be considered a gaseous mine under section 1563.02 of the Revised Code, the mine foreperson of such a mine shall: (A) Employ a sufficient number of competent persons holding foreperson of gaseous mines or fire boss certificates, except as provided in section 1565.02 of the Revised Code, to examine the working places whether they are in actual course of ...

...Coal dust, loose coal, and other combustible materials shall not be permitted to accumulate in any active workings. Where mining operations raise an excessive amount of dust into the air, water or water with a wetting agent added to it, or other effective methods, shall be used to allay such dust at its source. No operator of a mine shall refuse or neglect to comply with this section.

...All mines, except those mines or locations in a mine that are too wet or too high in incombustible content to propagate an explosion, shall be rock dusted. The rock dusting shall be done with such regularity and frequency that all surfaces required to be rock dusted shall be kept in such condition that the incombustible content of the adhering and lodging dust is not less than sixty-five per cent. When methane is pre...

...The mine foreman shall examine or have examined the working place of each person working in the mine on each coal-producing shift that such person is working in such working place or more often when the circumstances so require. In case the mine foreman should delegate such duty of inspecting working places, when men are at the faces, the person to whom he delegates such authority shall be certified. As evidence of...

...The worker performing the duties of fire boss shall, in an approved manner, use a flame safety lamp when making examinations under this chapter and Chapters 1561., 1565., and 1567. and applicable provisions of Chapter 1509. of the Revised Code. As evidence of such examinations the fire boss shall mark with chalk, upon the face of the coal or in some other conspicuous place, the fire boss's initials and the date...

...Each miner shall examine his working place upon entering it, and shall not commence to mine or load until it is made safe. He shall be very careful to keep his working place in a safe condition.

...When a working place becomes unsafe, the mine foreman shall order the persons working therein to cease mining or loading, and not remain in such working place, until it is safe, except as is necessary to make it safe. No person shall refuse or neglect to comply with this section.

...If a miner finds his place becoming dangerous, he shall at once cease work and notify the mine foreman, or other person acting for the mine foreman, of such danger and, upon leaving such place, he shall place some plain warning at the entrance thereto to warn others from entering into the danger. Such miner shall not return until ordered to do so by the mine foreman. No person shall refuse or neglect to comply wit...

...The mine foreman shall see that all dangerous places and old workings are properly fenced off, and proper dangersignal boards are hung on such fencing so that they may be plainly seen. He shall also travel all airways, and examine all the accessible openings to old workings as often as is necessary to insure their safety. All signs placed by the mine foreman under this section shall be marked "danger." No person sh...

...Each operator shall carry out on a continuing basis a program to improve the roof control system of each coal mine and the means and measures to accomplish such system. The roof and ribs of all active underground roadways, travelways, and working places shall be supported or otherwise controlled adequately to protect persons from falls of the roof or ribs. A roof control plan and revisions thereof suitable to the roo...

...Each operator shall adopt an adequate program for improving roof control systems. This program shall include a roof control plan, provision for the training of miners, a history of all unintentional roof falls, and systematic evaluation of the effectiveness of the roof control system in use. Each operator shall adopt a roof control plan suitable to the roof conditions and the mining system for all underground roadway...

...The chief of the division of mineral resources management shall approve roof control plans on a mine-by-mine basis in accordance with the criteria or specifications set forth in this section. Additional measures may be required. Roof control plans that do not conform to these criteria or specifications may be approved if the operator satisfies the chief that the resultant roof conditions will provide no less protecti...

...The method of mining followed in any coal mine shall not expose the miner to unusual dangers from roof falls caused by excessive widths of rooms and entries or faulty pillar recovery methods. (A) The method of mining shall provide widths of openings and pillar dimensions compatible with effective roof control. These widths and dimensions shall be incorporated into the roof control plan submitted for approval. Where...

...(A) The operator, in accordance with the approved plan, shall provide at or near each working face and at such other locations in the coal mines as the chief of the division of mineral resources management may prescribe an ample supply of suitable materials of proper size with which to secure the roof of all working places in a safe manner. Safety posts, jacks, or other approved devices shall be used to protect the w...

...If the appliances of a mine for the safety of the persons working therein do not conform to this chapter and Chapters 1509., 1561., 1565., and 1567. of the Revised Code, or if the owner, lessee, or agent disregards the requirements of such chapters, on application by the chief of the division of mineral resources management, in the name of the state, any court of competent jurisdiction may enjoin or restrain the owne...

...Whoever knowingly violates any section of this chapter is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.

...As used in this chapter: (A) "Manufactured home" has the same meaning as in section 3781.06 of the Revised Code. (B) "Mobile home" has the same meaning as in section 4501.01 of the Revised Code. (C) "Residential condominium unit" means a "residential unit" as defined in section 5311.01 of the Revised Code. (D) "Residential mortgage loan" means a loan or agreement to extend credit, including the renewal, refinanci...

...(A) A person is guilty of criminal mischief in violation of division (A)(1) of section 2909.07 of the Revised Code if all of the following apply: (1) The person knowingly and with purpose to diminish the value or enjoyment of the residential real property moves, defaces, damages, destroys, or otherwise improperly tampers with the person's own residential real property. (2) The residential real property is subject t...

...(A) Sentence may be suspended if a person, after conviction under section 2919.21 of the Revised Code and before sentence under that section, appears before the court of common pleas in which the conviction took place and enters into bond to the state in a sum fixed by the court at not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, with sureties approved by the court, conditioned that the person will furn...