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...n or election made under this 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 o...

...the Ohio police and fire pension fund shall give a member of the fund who is in the active service of a police or fire department, is not receiving a pension or benefit payment from the fund, and is not a participant in the deferred retirement option plan established under section 742.43 of the Revised Code full credit for service credit earned for full-time service as a member of the Cincinnati retirement system or ...

...f the Cincinnati retirement system take all actions, including the adoption of any ordinance or resolution, necessary to authorize the transfer of service credit and contributions between 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 sect...

...with the Cincinnati retirement system shall, in computing years of service credit, be given credit for service credit earned for full-time service under the Cincinnati retirement system or purchased or obtained as military service credit if both of the following occur: (1) For each year of service, the Cincinnati retirement system transfers to the Ohio police and fire pension fund the sum of the following: (a) The ...

... as military service credit, the fund shall transfer the amounts specified in division (B) or (C) of this section to the Cincinnati retirement system. (B) If a person has not received a refund of accumulated contributions from the fund, the fund shall, for each year of service credit, transfer to the Cincinnati retirement system the sum of the following: (1) An amount equal to the person's contributions to the fund...

...er section 742.43 of the Revised Code shall, in computing years of service, be given full credit for transferred service credit if a transfer to the Ohio police and fire pension fund is made under this section. At the request of a member, the non-uniform system shall transfer to the Ohio police and fire pension fund the sum of the following: (1) An amount equal to the amounts transferred to the non-uniform system un...

...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 contributions to the fund in accordance with section 742.31 of the Revised Code, and the member's disability...

...e 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 in such department under division (C) of section 742.37 or section 742.39 of the Revised Code, be given full credit for time for which contributions wer...

...ee 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 742.39 of the Revised Code, be gi...

...oyee of the fire department of a municipal corporation, who has resigned or has been honorably 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 gi...

... fund, in computing years of service, shall be given credit for the service credit to which the member was entitled in a firemen's relief and pension fund, established pursuant to former section 521.02 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 pol...

...r 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 member may purchase credit for such service if all of the following conditions are met: (1) The service was rendered as an employee of an entity of state or local government, or of an entity of the United States government; (2) The member is eli...

...) As used in this section: (1) "Actuarial present value" means the calculation under which the probability of occurrence, based on a specified mortality table, and the discount for future monetary growth at a specified interest rate are considered by an actuary to determine the value of an annuity. (2) "Other system retirant" means a former member of the public employees retirement system, state teachers retirement...

...ng 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 the member was laid off, if all of the following conditions are met: (1) During the time the member was laid off, the member was not entitled to receive disability benefits fr...

... section 742.29 of the Revised 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...

...(A) Each employer shall promptly pay the amount due on the accrued liability on the dates fixed 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 paym...

...n (B) of this section, each employee shall contribute an amount equal to a percentage 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-quarter...

...As used in this section, "entry age normal actuarial cost method" means an actuarial cost method under which the actuarial present value of the projected benefits of each individual included in the valuation is allocated on a level basis over the earnings or service of the individual between the entry age and the assumed exit age, with the portion of the actuarial present value that is allocated to the valuation year...

...(A) The fiscal officer of each employer shall transmit monthly to the secretary 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 ...

...(A) Each employer shall pay monthly, on such dates 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...

...(A) Each employer shall pay monthly, on such dates 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....

...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...

...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, which shall be sixty days after...

...er division (C) of this section, the penalties for failing to transmit reports and payment in accordance with sections 742.32 and 742.56 of the Revised Code or payments in accordance with section 742.35 of the Revised Code shall be as follows: (1) If a report or payment is at least one but not more than ten days past due, one hundred dollars; (2) If a report or payment is at least eleven but not more than thirty da...

...th division (C) of this section, the penalties assessed under sections 742.351 and 742.38 of the Revised Code shall be as follows: (1) If a form, report, or statement is at least one but not more than ten days past due, one hundred dollars; (2) If a form, report, or statement is at least eleven but not more than thirty days past due, one thousand dollars; (3) If a form, report, or statement is at least thirty-one ...