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...Wherever in this chapter, reference is made to the teachers' savings fund, the employers' trust fund, the annuity and pension reserve fund, the guarantee fund, the survivors' benefit fund, the expense fund, or the defined contribution fund, such reference shall be construed to have been made to each as a separate legal entity. This section does not prevent the deposit or investment of all such moneys intermingled for...

...(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 ...

... for the exclusive purpose of providing benefits to participants and their beneficiaries and defraying reasonable expenses of administering the 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 ...

...The state teachers retirement system shall make no investments through, 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, 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 mem...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, a fiduciary shall not cause the state teachers retirement system to engage in a transaction, if the fiduciary 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 ...

...(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any payment of accumulated contributions standing to a person's credit under this chapter and any other amount or amounts to be paid to a person who is a contributor under this chapter upon the person's withdrawal of contributions pursuant to this chapter shall be subject to any forfeiture ordered under division (A) or (B) of section 2929.192 of the Revis...

...Not later than September 1, 2000, and each first day of September thereafter, the state teachers retirement board shall make and submit a report for the preceding fiscal year of the disability retirement experience of each employer. The report shall specify the total number of disability applications submitted under section 3307.62 of the Revised Code, the status of each application as of the last day of the fiscal y...

...At the time of retirement under the STRS defined benefit plan, the total service credited a teacher shall consist of all the teacher's service as a teacher since the teacher last became a member and, if the teacher has a prior service certificate which is in full force and effect, all service certified on such prior service certificate.

...The state teachers retirement board shall credit a year of service to any teacher participating in the STRS defined benefit plan who is employed on a full-time basis in a school district for the number of months the regular day schools of such district are in session in said district within any year. The board shall adopt appropriate rules and regulations for the determination of credit for less than a complete year ...

...(A) As used in this section, "other retirement system" means the public employees retirement system or the school employees retirement system. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, on application, a member of the state teachers retirement system who is also a member of one or both of the other retirement systems and has ceased to be a teacher for purposes of this chapter may be paid, in accordance ...

...On and after December 19, 1973, any person who retired or the retiree's beneficiary, who was eligible to receive an allowance that was first payable on or after July 1, 1968, and prior to July 1, 1971, and the beneficiary of a member who died before service retirement on or after July 1, 1968, and prior to July 1, 1971, receiving an allowance or benefit pursuant to former sections 3307.38, 3307.41, 3307.43, 3307.49, ...

...Effective September 1, 1947, the retirement allowances of retired Ohio teachers, or their beneficiaries under options elected at retirement and still in effect, on the retired list as of that date shall be recalculated and paid in accordance with the following: (A) Members retired on superannuation effective prior to August 31, 1945, shall have the prior service portion of their allowances recalculated as of the dat...

...(A)(1) Except as provided in this section, section 3305.05, or section 3305.051 of the Revised Code, a member or former member of the state teachers retirement system participating in the STRS defined benefit plan who has at least one and one-half years of contributing service credit in this system, the public employees retirement system, the school employees retirement system, the Ohio police and fire pension fund, ...

...The state teachers retirement board shall credit years of service to a member participating in the STRS defined benefit plan who was employed for teaching service by an employer who failed to make retirement contributions to the state teachers retirement system during any year or years beginning on or after September 1, 1920, if the member deposits in the teachers' savings fund a per cent of the member's annual...

...(A) As used in this section, "transferred service credit" means service credit purchased or obtained under section 742.21, 742.214, 742.375, 5505.201, 5505.40, or 5505.41 of the Revised Code prior to the date a member commenced the employment covered by the state teachers retirement system for which the member is currently contributing to the system. (B) A member of the state teachers retirement system who has contr...

...(A) As used in this section, "employer" means the employer employing a member of the state teachers retirement system at the time the member commences an absence, or is granted a leave described in this section. (B) Any member of the state teachers retirement system participating in the STRS defined benefit plan or the STRS combined plan who is, or has been, prevented from making contributions under section 3307.26 ...

...As used in this section, "regular employment" means a consistent pattern of employment for twelve or more consecutive weeks by the same employer during the year. A member of the state teachers retirement system participating in the STRS defined benefit plan who prior to July 1, 1982, was granted a leave of absence for pregnancy or resigned due to pregnancy or adoption of a child may purchase service credit un...

...(A) As used in this section, "school board member" means a member of a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district board of education and "governing board member" means a member of an educational service center governing board. (B) A member of the state teachers retirement system participating in the STRS defined benefit plan may purchase credit under section 3307.70 of the Revised Code for se...

...The right of each member participating in an STRS defined contribution plan to a retirement, disability, or survivor benefit, to health care insurance coverage, or to a withdrawal of contributions shall be governed by the plan selected by the member under section 3307.25 or 3307.251 of the Revised Code.

...The state teachers retirement system may require members participating in an STRS defined contribution plan and their employers to furnish the contributions and information required under this chapter at more frequent intervals than those required for members participating in the STRS defined benefit plan. The system has no duty to accept contributions by or on behalf of a member if a contribution or informatio...

...(A) As used in this section, "armed forces" includes both: (1) Army, navy, air force, marine corps, space force, coast guard, auxiliary corps as established by congress, army nurse corps, navy nurse corps, red cross nurse serving with the army, navy, air force, or hospital service of the United States, full-time service with the American red cross in a combat zone, and such other service as is designated by congres...

...ment of retirement allowances and other benefits provided in Chapter 3309. of the Revised Code. The board may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, and do all things necessary to carry out Chapter 3309. of the Revised Code. All of its business shall be transacted, all of its funds invested, all warrants for money drawn and payments made, and all of its cash, securities, and other p...

...(A) As used in this section: (1) "Campaign committee" means a candidate or a combination of two or more persons authorized by a candidate to receive contributions and in-kind contributions and make expenditures on behalf of the candidate. (2) "Candidate" means an individual who has been nominated pursuant to section 3309.07 of the Revised Code for election to the school employees retirement board or who is se...

... of all retirement allowances and other benefits and shall make other expenditures required or authorized by this chapter.

... for the exclusive purpose of providing benefits to participants and their beneficiaries and defraying reasonable expenses of administering the school 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 such matters would use in the conduct of an enterprise of a like character and with like aim...