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...tings of the board shall be open to the public except executive sessions as set forth in division (G) of section 121.22 of the Revised Code, and any portions of any sessions discussing medical records or the degree of disability of a member excluded from public inspection by section 742.41 of the Revised Code. At its first meeting the board shall organize by electing from its membership a chairperson and a vice-chai...

...erence, the board shall ensure that the public can hear and observe the discussions and deliberations of all the members of the board, whether the member is participating in person or electronically. (D) Except as provided in this section, no person shall do any of the following: (1) Limit the number of board members who may attend a meeting by means of video conference; (2) Limit the total number of meetings t...

...ees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for their necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their official duties. An employee member of the board shall suffer no loss or penalty whatsoever because of absence from the employee member's regular employment while engaged in official duties as a member of the board. (B) The board may secure insurance...

...ees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund.

...gainst the Ohio police and fire pension fund or the Ohio police and fire pension fund b oard of trustees or its officers, employees, or board members in their official capacities shall be brought in the appropriate court in Franklin county, Ohio.

...ees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, employ and fix the compensation of employees, and adopt rules for the proper administration and management of the fund. Effective ninety days after September 15, 2004, the board of trustees may not employ a state retirement system investment officer, as defined in section 1707.01 of the Revised ...

...ees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund shall estimate annually the amount required to pay its expenses for the ensuing year, and shall fix the amount which shall be transferred from the guarantee fund to the expense fund.

...board will improve the dissemination of public information pertaining to the board.

...trustees of the police and fire pension fund shall, in consultation with the Ohio ethics commission, develop an ethics policy to govern board members and employees in the performance of their official duties. The board shall submit this policy to the commission for approval. The commission shall review the policy and, if the commission determines that the policy is adequate, approve the policy. If the commission det...

...pension fund from misusing material, nonpublic information in violation of those laws, rules, and regulations. For purposes of this division, no chief investment officer shall be considered to have failed to satisfy the officer's duty of reasonable supervision if the officer has done all of the following: (1) Adopted and implemented written procedures, and a system for applying the procedures, that would reasonably...

...The Ohio police and fire pension fund board of trustees shall appoint a committee to oversee the selection of an internal auditor. The committee shall select one or more persons for employment as an internal auditor. The board shall employ the person or persons selected by the committee. The committee shall consist of the following board members: one retirant member, one employee member, and one other member. The co...

...nagement and research. (C) All bonds, notes, certificates, stocks, or other evidences of investments purchased by the board shall be delivered to the treasurer of state, who is hereby designated as custodian thereof, or to the treasurer of state's authorized agent, and the treasurer of state or the agent shall collect the principal, interest, dividends, and distributions that become due and payable and place them w...

...The Ohio police and fire pension fund 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, an officer of, or a board member of the fund, or in which a person who within the preceding three years was employed by, an offi...

... cause the Ohio police and fire pension fund 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 fund and a party in interest; (2) Lending of money or other extension of credit between the fund and a party in interest; (3) Furnishing of goods, services, or facilities between the fund ...

...ees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund 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 annual emolument for the trustee's or employee's services. No trustee or employee of said board shall, directly or indirectly, for self or as an agent or partner of others, borrow any funds or deposits over which t...

...as such by the board of trustees of the fund. (4) "Ohio-qualified investment manager" means an investment manager designated as such by the board of trustees of the fund. (5) "Principal place of business" means an office in which the agent regularly provides securities or investment advisory services and solicits, meets with, or otherwise communicates with clients. (B) The board of trustees of the fund shall, f...

...(A) The Ohio police and fire pension fund shall disclose the following to the Ohio ethics commission: (1) Anything of value received by the system from an agent and anything of value given on behalf of the system by an agent; (2) The name of any employee of the system with authority over the investment of retirement system funds or any board member of the system who deals with an agent regarding amounts described i...

...b) A process whereby the board can give public notice to Ohio-qualified investment managers of the board's search for an investment manager that includes the board's search criteria. (2) The board shall determine whether an investment manager is an Ohio-qualified investment manager and whether the investment manager offers quality, services, and safety comparable to other investment managers otherwise available to t...

...ees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund from any taxing district of the state shall be in the denomination required by the board in its resolution of purchase, or the board may by its resolution require that all bonds of any series of bonds purchased by it from any taxing district of the state be consolidated and issued as one bond, the principal amount of which is equal to the aggregate amount of all the bonds ...

...strict and the secretary of the sinking fund shall make and keep a detailed record of any such changes required by the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund. The board shall not change the date of maturity of any part of the principal or interest of any bond issue, nor shall it require a bond of any issue to be of a larger denomination, nor any partial payment of principal to be of greater amount...

...es of the Ohio police and fire pension fund shall have prepared triennially by or under the supervision of an actuary an actuarial valuation of the pension assets, liabilities, and funding requirements of the Ohio police and fire pension fund as established pursuant to sections 742.01 to 742.61 of the Revised Code. The actuary shall complete the valuation in accordance with actuarial standards of practice prom...

...ees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund shall collect and keep in convenient form such data as are necessary for the preparation of the required mortality and service tables and for the compilation of such other information as is required for the actuarial evaluations provided for by section 742.14 of the Revised Code.

...es of the Ohio police and fire pension fund shall establish a period of not more than thirty years to amortize the Ohio police and fire pension fund's unfunded actuarial accrued pension liabilities. The board shall adopt a plan that specifies how it proposes to meet the thirty-year amortization period not later than December 31, 2006. If the period necessary to amortize the unfunded actuarial accrued pension l...

...uary, the Ohio police and fire pension fund board of trustees determines that an adjustment to the age and years of service credit required to receive a pension or benefit under division (C) of section 742.37 of the Revised Code is appropriate, the board may, in accordance with rules adopted under section 742.10 of the Revised Code, do either of the following: (A) If the board's determination is that increasi...

...ted 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 or election the opportunity to correct any deficiency ...