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...S.C.A. 415, as amended, are raised, the school employees retirement board shall increase the amount of the pension, benefit, or allowance of any person whose pension, benefit, or allowance payable under section 3309.36, 3309.374, 3309.381, 3309.40, or 3309.401 or former section 3309.38 of the Revised Code was limited by the application of section 415. The amount of the increased pension, benefit, or allowance s...

...The school 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 school employees retirement system and be maintained...

...(A) A recipient of a disability allowance under section 3309.401 of the Revised Code who is subject to division (C)(3) of that section may make application for retirement under this section. Retirement shall be effective on the first day of the first month following the last day for which the disability allowance is paid. (B) The annual allowance payable under this section shall consist of the sum of the amounts det...

...(A) The school employees retirement system shall provide disability coverage to each member who has at least five years of total service credit. Not later than October 16, 1992, the school employees retirement board shall give each person who is a member on July 29, 1992, the opportunity to elect disability coverage either under section 3309.40 of the Revised Code or under section 3309.401 of the Revised Code...

... first day of September thereafter, the school employees 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, the status of each application as of the last day of the fiscal year, total applications granted or denied, and the percentage of disability benefi...

...under 42 U.S.C. 410(a). (C) Unless the school employees retirement system determines that good cause exists to exempt the recipient from the requirements of this section, a recipient who is subject to division (A) or (B) of this section shall file the applications required by those divisions as follows: (1) For a recipient who on the effective date of this amendment is enrolled in health care coverage under sectio...

...ned age sixty, and is determined by the school employees retirement board under section 3309.39 of the Revised Code to qualify for a disability benefit shall be retired on disability under this section. Upon disability retirement, a member shall receive an annual amount that shall consist of: (A) An annuity having a reserve equal to the amount of the member's accumulated contributions; (B) A pension that shall be ...

...r this section who is determined by the school employees retirement board under section 3309.39 of the Revised Code to qualify for a disability benefit shall receive a disability allowance under this section. The allowance shall be an annual amount equal to the greater of the following: (1) Forty-five per cent of the member's final average salary; (2) The member's total service credit multiplied by two and two-te...

... become exempt from contribution to the school employees retirement system pursuant to section 3309.23 of the Revised Code, or ceases to be an employee for any cause other than death, retirement, receipt of a disability benefit, or current employment in a position in which the member has elected to participate in an alternative retirement plan pursuant to section 3305.05 or 3305.051 of the Revised Code, shall be paid...

...ection, on application, a member of the school employees retirement system who is also a member of one or both of the other retirement systems and has ceased to be an employee under this chapter may be paid, in accordance with section 3309.42 of the Revised Code, the member's accumulated contributions to the school employees retirement system. This payment does not affect the member's membership in the other retireme...

...ed in writing on a form provided by the school employees retirement board, signed by the member and filed with the board prior to death. The last designation of any beneficiary revokes all previous designations. The member's marriage, divorce, legal dissolution, legal separation, or withdrawal of account, or the birth of the member's child, or the member's adoption of a child, constitutes an automatic revocatio...

...Upon the death of a member prior to receipt of a disability benefit or service retirement, the surviving spouse or dependents of the deceased member shall have the right to purchase any service credit which the member, had he not died, would have been eligible to purchase under this chapter upon the same terms and conditions which the deceased member could have purchased such service credit had he not died. Any servi...

...ertified by the actuary engaged by the school employees retirement board to be the actuarial equivalent of the member's retirement allowance and is approved by the retirement board. (B)(1)(a) Except as provided in divisions (B)(1)(b) and (c) of this section, a member who retires under section 3309.36 or 3309.381 of the Revised Code shall receive a retirement allowance under "plan A," which shall consist of th...

...Each school employees retirement system contributor shall contribute eight per cent of the contributor's compensation to the employees' savings fund, except that the school employees retirement board may raise the contribution rate to a rate not greater than ten per cent of compensation. The contributions by the direction of the school employees retirement board shall be deducted by the employer from the comp...

...Except as otherwise provided in section 124.385 of the Revised Code, any contributor who is granted disability leave pursuant to a program sponsored by his employer, whereby the contributor receives a percentage of his salary while on disability leave, shall not be required to make contributions for time off while on disability leave. Except as otherwise provided in section 124.385 of the Revised Code, each employe...

...n the first day of classes of the third school year following the date of her resignation. Service credit purchased by a member under this section may not exceed the lesser of two years or an amount equal to the period from the effective date of her resignation to the date of her return to employment as a contributor, except that service credit may be purchased for more than one period of absence due to pregnancy, b...

...on (D) of this section, a member of the school employees retirement system who resigned due to pregnancy or adoption of a child may purchase service credit for a period following the resignation during which the member did not make contributions under section 3309.47 of the Revised Code, if the member meets both of the following conditions: (1) The member has earned a minimum of one year of service credit subsequent...

...fund, state teachers retirement system, school employees retirement system, or state highway patrol retirement system. (B) A state retirement system member who while a member of the school employees retirement system was out of service due to a leave of absence approved by the member's employer may purchase from the school employees retirement system service credit for any period during the leave for which contribut...

...r refused to deduct and transmit to the school employees retirement system the employee contributions as required by section 3309.47 of the Revised Code during any year for which membership was compulsory as determined by the school employees retirement board, shall be granted service credit without cost, which shall be considered as total service credit for the purposes of meeting the qualifications for service reti...

...Each employer shall pay to the school employees retirement system at such times as required by the school employees retirement board under section 3309.51 of the Revised Code an amount that shall be a certain per cent of the earnable compensation of all employees, and shall be known as the "employer contribution." The rate per cent of such contribution shall be fixed by the actuary on the basis of the actuary's evalu...

...(A) An actuary employed by the school employees retirement board shall annually determine the minimum annual compensation amount for each member that will be needed to fund the cost of providing future health care benefits under section 3309.69 of the Revised Code. The amount determined by the actuary under this division shall be approved by the board and shall be known as the "minimum compensation amount." (B)(1)...

...lowance or disability benefit from the school employees retirement system, a lump-sum payment of one thousand dollars shall be paid, following completion of an application on a form approved by the school employees retirement board, in the following order of precedence to: (a) The retirant or recipient's designated beneficiary; (b) The retirant or recipient's surviving spouse; (c) The retirant or recipient's ...

...t fund, monthly or at such times as the school employees retirement board requires, an amount certified by the school employees retirement board, which shall be as required by Chapter 3309. of the Revised Code. Payments by school district boards of education to the employers' trust fund of the school employees retirement system may be made from the amounts allocated under Chapter 3317. of the Revised Code prior to...

...ed and supplied to each employer by the school employees retirement board. Any such appointment or reappointment of any employee, or service upon indefinite tenure, shall be conditioned upon the employee's acceptance of such sections as a part of the contract.

...ndar month, or at such intervals as the school employees retirement board approves, notify the board of removals and withdrawals of employees that have occurred during the month preceding or the period since the period covered by the last notification. Each employer shall keep such records and shall furnish such information and assistance to the school employees retirement board as it requires in the discharge of its...