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...Whenever the limits established by section 415 of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C.A. 415, as amended, are raised, the public employees retirement board shall increase the amount of the pension, benefit, or allowance of any person whose pension, benefit, or allowance payable under section 145.323, 145.33, 145.331, 145.332, 145.335, 145.36, or 145.361 or former section 145.34 of the Revise...

...The public employees retirement board may establish and maintain a qualified governmental excess benefit arrangement that meets the requirements of division (m) of section 415 of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C.A. 415, as amended, and any regulations adopted thereunder. If established, the arrangement shall be a separate portion of the public employees retirement system and be maintained...

...(A)(1) Subject to the provisions of section 145.57 of the Revised Code and except as provided in division (B) of this section, if a member elects to become exempt from contribution to the public employees retirement system pursuant to section 145.03 of the Revised Code or ceases to be a public employee for any cause other than death, retirement, receipt of a disability benefit, or current employment in a position in ...

...(A) As used in this section, "service credit" means service credit earned for periods for which contributions were made under section 145.47 of the Revised Code and, if applicable, periods for which service credit was purchased or restored under section 145.302 or 145.31 of the Revised Code. (B) If a member has, or at the time of death had, at least five years of service credit, the public employees retirement...

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

...Membership shall cease upon refund of accumulated contributions, death, or retirement except as provided in section 145.362 of the Revised Code. A member who separates from service for any reason other than death or retirement or who otherwise ceases to be a public employee for any reason other than death or retirement may leave the member's accumulated contributions on deposit with the public employees retirement bo...

...(A) As used in this section and in section 145.45 of the Revised Code: (1) "Child" means a biological or legally adopted child of a deceased member. If a court hearing for an interlocutory decree for adoption was held prior to the member's death, "child" includes the child who was the subject of the hearing notwithstanding the fact that the final decree of adoption, adjudging the surviving spouse as the adoptive par...

...Designation of a beneficiary for the purposes of section 145.40 of the Revised Code or a return of contributions to the beneficiary of a member participating in a PERS defined contribution plan shall be made under this section. A beneficiary shall be designated in writing duly executed on a form provided by the public employees retirement board and signed by the member. A designation under this section is not valid u...

...(A) Upon the death of a retirant or disability benefit recipient, who at the time of death is receiving an age and service retirement benefit or a disability benefit from this system, a death benefit shall be paid, following the completion of an application on a form approved by the public employees retirement board, to one of the following in the order given: (1) The person the retirant or disability benefit recipi...

...The surviving spouse of a member who dies on or after the effective date of this amendment may continue any service credit purchase the member initiated before death. A purchase shall be considered to have been initiated before the member's death if the member made one or more payments for the purchase before death. Any service credit purchased under this section shall be applied under the provisions of this...

...(A) A retirement allowance calculated under section 145.33, 145.331, 145.332, or 145.335 of the Revised Code shall be paid as provided in this section. Unless the member is required by division (C) of this section to select a specified plan of payment, a member may elect a plan of payment as provided in division (B)(1), (2), or (3) of this section. An election shall be made at the time the member makes application...

...(A)(1) On and after December 13, 2000, the public employees retirement board shall credit interest to the individual accounts of contributors, except that interest shall not be credited to the individual account of a PERS or other system retirant, as defined in section 145.38 of the Revised Code, for contributions received during the period described in division (B)(4)(a) or (b) of section 145.38 of the Revised Code....

...This section applies to individuals who are contributors on December 13, 2000. (A) Not later than thirty days after December 13, 2000, the public employees retirement board shall credit interest to the individual account of each contributor in accordance with this section, except that interest shall not be credited to the individual account of a PERS or other system retirant, as defined in section 145.38 of the Rev...

...(A) The rate of interest credited to individual accounts of contributors under sections 145.471 and 145.472 of the Revised Code shall be as follows: (1) Four per cent per annum, compounded annually, to and including December 31, 1955; (2) Three per cent per annum, compounded annually, from January 1, 1956, to and including December 31, 1963; (3) Three and one-quarter per cent per annum, compounded annually, ...

...Upon a finding that an employer failed to deduct contributions pursuant to section 145.47 of the Revised Code during a period of employment for which such contributions were required, a statement of delinquent contributions shall be prepared showing the amount the contributor and employer would have contributed had regular payroll deductions been taken. Simple interest from the end of each calendar year at a ra...

...(A) Each employer described in division (D) of section 145.01 of the Revised Code shall pay into the employers' accumulation fund, in monthly installments, an amount certified by the public employees retirement board, which equals the employer obligation as described in section 145.12 or 145.69 of the Revised Code. In addition, the board shall add to the employer billing next succeeding the amount, with interes...

...(A) As used in this section and section 145.53 of the Revised Code, "transitional liability" means an amount equal to the employer obligation due under division (A) of section 145.51 of the Revised Code for the months of October, November, and December of 2007. (B) The transitional liability is payable in three installments on or before December 31, 2008, December 31, 2009, and December 31, 2010. (1) The first inst...

...(A) From the employer obligation for the month of February 2008, under section 145.51 of the Revised Code, an amount equal to the portion of the employer obligation attributable to section 145.86 of the Revised Code for the months of October, November, and December of 2007, shall be credited to the PERS defined contribution plan to satisfy the portion of the transitional liability attributable to section 145.86 of th...

...The public employees retirement board shall estimate annually the amount required to defray the expenses of the administration of the public employees retirement system in the ensuing year. If in the judgment of the board, as evidenced by a resolution of that board in its minutes, the amount in the income fund exceeds the amount necessary to cover the ordinary requirements of that fund, the board may transfer t...

...The deductions provided for in this chapter shall be made notwithstanding that the minimum compensation provided for by law for any contributor is reduced thereby. Every contributor is deemed to consent to the deductions made and provided for in this chapter. Payment less the deductions shall be a complete discharge and acquittance of all claims and demands whatsoever for the services rendered by such person during ...

...idual, under this chapter, or under any municipal retirement system established subject to this chapter under the laws of this state or any charter, the various funds created by this chapter, or under such municipal retirement system, and all moneys, investments, and income from moneys or investments are exempt from any state tax, except the tax imposed by section 5747.02 of the Revised Code, and are exempt from any ...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section and section 145.363, 145.573, or 145.574 of the Revised Code, the granting of a retirement allowance, annuity, pension, or other benefit to any person pursuant to action of the public employees retirement board vests a right in such person, so long as the person remains the recipient of any benefit of the funds established by section 145.23 of the Revised C...

...(A) Any person who is receiving an allowance or benefit or any increases under this chapter may, at any time, waive his rights thereto, or to a portion thereof, by filing a written notice of waiver with the public employees retirement board. Except as provided in division (B) of this section, such waiver shall remain in effect until the first day of the month following his death or the filing of his written cancellat...

...Notwithstanding section 145.561 of the Revised Code: (A) The public employees retirement system may adjust an allowance or benefit payable under this chapter if an error occurred in calculation of the allowance or benefit; (B) If any person who is a member, former member, contributor, former contributor, retirant, beneficiary, or alternate payee, as defined in section 3105.80 of the Revised Code, is paid any benefi...

...Any person receiving from the public employees retirement system an allowance, annuity, pension, or benefit may authorize the system to make deductions therefrom for the payment of dues and other membership fees to any retirement association or other organization composed primarily of retired public employees or retired public employees and their spouses if the association or organization adopts a resolution approvin...

...A municipal corporation creating an urban renewal debt retirement fund pursuant to section 725.03 of the Revised Code, may: (A) Issue unvoted urban renewal bonds, which pledge and are payable solely from all or any portion of the revenues as defined in division (D) of section 725.01 of the Revised Code. The revenues pledged shall be placed in the urban renewal debt retirement fund established for such urban renewal ...

... of the faith and credit of the issuing municipal corporation. All such urban renewal bonds described in this division shall contain on the face thereof a statement to the effect that the bonds, as to both principal and interest, are not a general obligation of the issuing municipal corporation but are payable solely from receipts pledged for their payment. (B) Urban renewal bonds issued pursuant to division (B) of...

...A municipal corporation may contract with any corporation, company, partnership, association, or person maintaining overhead cables, wires, and appurtenant equipment on a street of the municipal corporation for the relocation of such overhead cables, wires, and appurtenant equipment underground within the limits of the street. Such contract shall provide for the payment of the contract price by the municipal corporat...

...When it is deemed necessary by a municipal corporation to make a public improvement to be paid for in whole or in part by special assessments levied under this chapter, plans, specifications, profiles of the proposed improvement showing the proposed grade of the street and improvement after completion with reference to the property abutting thereon, and an estimate of the cost of the improvement shall be prepared and...

...ments, the legislative authority of the municipal corporation may provide in the assessing ordinance passed pursuant to section 727.25 of the Revised Code for interest on unpaid special assessments which shall be treated as part of the cost of the improvement for which the special assessments are made. The unpaid special assessments shall bear the rate or rates of interest determined by the legislative authority in t...

...The legislative authority of a municipal corporation, when securities are not issued in anticipation of the collection of a special assessment, may provide, in the assessing ordinance, that if a special assessment is unpaid, the treasurer of the municipal corporation shall collect the unpaid special assessment in place of the county treasurer. For purposes of enforcing the collection, the treasurer of the municipal c...

... authority shall be elected at the same municipal election as provided for in this section. (B) At the regular municipal election occurring not less than ninety days after the certification of the ordinance or resolution to the board of elections eliminating staggered terms of office, the following apply: (1) If there are six members of the legislative authority, the number of members eligible for election at...

...Except as otherwise provided in the municipal charter or in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, each officer of a municipal corporation required by law or ordinance to give bond shall do so before entering upon the duties of the office. Except as otherwise provided in the municipal charter or in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, the legislative authority thereof may at any time require each officer to give a new or a...

... probate judge of the county in which a municipal corporation or the larger part thereof is situated, by any elector of the municipal corporation, signed and approved by four other electors thereof, the judge shall forthwith issue a citation to any person charged in the complaint for his appearance before the judge within ten days from the filing thereof, and shall also furnish the accused and the village solicitor o...

...(A) The legislative authority of a municipal corporation may establish, by ordinance or resolution, a voluntary motor vehicle decal registration program to be controlled by the director of public safety of the municipal corporation and conducted by the police department of the municipal corporation. The legislative authority may establish a fee for participation in the program in an amount sufficient to cover t...

...er. (B) The taxing authority of each municipal corporation in which there was a police relief and pension fund on October 1, 1965, shall annually, in the manner provided for making other municipal levies and in addition to all other levies authorized by law, levy a tax of three-tenths of one mill upon all the real and personal property as listed for taxation in the municipal corporation for the purpose of paying t...

...er. (B) The taxing authority of each municipal corporation in which there was a firemen's relief and pension fund on October 1, 1965, shall annually, in the manner provided for making other municipal levies and in addition to all other levies authorized by law, levy a tax of three-tenths of one mill upon all the real and personal property as listed for taxation in the municipal corporation for the purpose of payin...

...A municipal corporation which has water works or electric works may contract with any other municipal corporation to supply it or its inhabitants with water or electricity upon such terms as are agreed upon by their respective legislative authorities. A municipal corporation which has a water works may dispose of surplus water, for manufacturing or other purposes, by lease or otherwise, upon such terms as are agreed ...

...The legislative authorities of municipal corporations may make surveys of water works, sewerage systems, or other public works or improvements which they are by law authorized to construct, operate, maintain, or repair, the construction, improvement, enlargement, or repair of which is contemplated, whether governmental or proprietary, and they may proceed in the manner provided in this section. The legislative autho...

...e improvements" means streets, bridges, municipal buildings, parks and green space, site improvements, recreation facilities, improvements for parking purposes, and any other public facilities that are owned by a municipal corporation with a useful life of five or more years. "Existing infrastructure improvements" does not include the construction of new infrastructure improvements. (B) A municipal corporation that...

...d under leases of a project made by the municipal corporation, and all proceeds of the sale or other disposition of a project of the municipal corporation, after paying the necessary expenses including expenses of maintenance and repair which the municipal corporation is required to incur for a project owned by it shall be placed in separate sinking funds to the extent provided in the ordinances of the municipal corp...

...ivision (A) of this section is within a municipal corporation or if an annexation petition that includes the land has been filed with the board of county commissioners under section 709.02 of the Revised Code at the time of the filing, the owner also shall file a copy of the application for inclusion in an agricultural district with the clerk of the legislative body of the municipal corporation. No later than thirty ...

...er regulation of such activities by any municipal corporation or other political subdivision. (B) Any ordinance, resolution, regulation, or other action by a municipal corporation or other political subdivision to regulate, directly or indirectly, the origination, granting, servicing, or collection of loans or other forms of credit constitutes a conflict with the Revised Code, including, but not limited to, Titles X...

...ompletion of an approved state, county, municipal, or department of natural resources peace officer basic training program. (2) The person previously has been awarded a certificate by the executive director of the Ohio peace officer training commission attesting to the person's satisfactory completion of an approved state, county, municipal, or department of natural resources peace officer basic training prog...

... the existence of a fiscal watch to the municipal corporation, county, or township and the county budget commission. The fiscal watch shall be in effect until the auditor of state determines that none of the conditions are any longer present and cancels the watch, or until the auditor of state determines that a state of fiscal emergency exists. The auditor of state, or a designee, shall provide such technical and sup...

...ch ordinance or resolution; (A) If the municipal corporation, county, or township defaults in the payment of debt service on an issue of debt obligations, whether at maturity or upon call for redemption, and such default continues for a period of thirty days, or if the municipal corporation, county, or township fails or refuses to comply with this chapter, or defaults in any contract made with the holders of an issu...

...mic development planning committee in a municipal corporation, county, or township whose territory includes the eligible area. The committee shall consist of members of the public and private sectors who live in that municipal corporation, county, or township. The local economic development planning committee shall prepare and submit to the department a five-year economic development plan for that municipal corporati...

... one hundred twenty-five thousand, or a municipal corporation in such a county, that has experienced or is experiencing a closing or downsizing of a major employer that will adversely affect the county's or municipal corporation's economy. In order to be designated as a situational distress area for a period not to exceed thirty-six months, the county or municipal corporation may petition the director of development....

...ermanent part-time county, township, or municipal corporation employee who is not subject to a collective bargaining agreement between a public employer and an exclusive representative. (2) "Fiscal emergency" means any of the following: (a) A fiscal emergency declared by the governor under section 126.05 of the Revised Code. (b) A fiscal watch or fiscal emergency has been declared or determined under section 11...

...y and the legislative authority of each municipal corporation in the county and of each township whose territory is proposed to be included in a countywide 9-1-1 system shall act by resolution to approve or disapprove the plan, except that, with respect to a final plan that provides for funding of the 9-1-1 system in part through charges imposed under section 128.35 of the Revised Code, the board of county commission...