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...Except as provided in section 145.195, 145.814, or in division (C) of section 145.82 of the Revised Code, a member of the public employees retirement system who elects to participate in a PERS defined contribution plan shall be ineligible for any benefit or payment under the PERS defined benefit plan and shall be forever barred from claiming or purchasing service credit with the system or any other Ohio state ...

...Except as provided in section 145.194 or division (C)(4) of section 3305.05 and division (F) of section 3305.051 of the Revised Code, an election made or deemed to have been made under section 145.19 or 145.191 of the Revised Code applies to all positions subject to this chapter for which the member is contributing under section 145.47 or 145.85 of the Revised Code. A member who terminates employment in all ...

...(A) A member participating in a PERS defined contribution plan who becomes a PERS law enforcement officer or PERS public safety officer shall cease making contributions to a PERS defined contribution plan. During employment as a PERS law enforcement officer or a PERS public safety officer and any concurrent employment in a position subject to this chapter, the member shall contribute only to the PERS defined benefit ...

... The public employees retirement system may, in accordance with rules it adopts under this section, permit a member who participated in both the PERS defined benefit plan and one or more PERS defined contribution plans to combine years of service as a member for the purpose of determining eligibility for a benefit under section 145.32, 145.331, 145.332, or 145.335 of the Revised Code, or a benefit under a PERS define...

... (A) As used in this section: (1) "Individual account" means the account maintained for a member of the PERS combined plan in the defined contribution fund created in section 145.23 of the Revised Code, in which the member's contributions under section 145.85 of the Revised Code are deposited and credited. (2) "PERS combined plan" means the hybrid plan established under section 145.81 of the Revised Code that i...

...(A) Any elective official of the state of Ohio or of any political subdivision thereof having employees in the public employees retirement system shall be considered as an employee of the state or such political subdivision, and may become a member of the system upon application to the public employees retirement board, with all the rights, privileges, and obligations of membership. An elective official who bec...

... (A) Subject to the limit described in division (C) of this section, any member who is or has been an elected official of the state or any political subdivision thereof or has been appointed either by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate or directly by the speaker of the house of representatives or president of the senate to serve full-time as a member of a board, commission, or other public body ma...

...The public employees retirement board shall provide for the maintenance of an individual account with each contributor showing the amount of the contributor's contributions and the interest accumulations thereon. It shall collect and keep in convenient form such data as is necessary for the preparation of the required mortality and service tables, and for an actuarial valuation of the assets and liabilities of the va...

...(A) The public employees retirement board shall have prepared annually by or under the supervision of an actuary an actuarial valuation of the pension assets, liabilities, and funding requirements of the public employees retirement system as established pursuant to this chapter. The actuary shall complete the valuation in accordance with actuarial standards of practice promulgated by the actuarial standards boa...

...The public employees retirement board shall establish a period of not more than thirty years to amortize the public employees retirement system's unfunded actuarial accrued pension liability. If in any year the period necessary to amortize the unfunded actuarial accrued pension liability exceeds thirty years, as determined by the annual actuarial valuation required by section 145.22 of the Revised Code, the board, no...

... (A) As used in this section: (1) "Compensation" means both of the following: (a) In the case of a public employees retirement system member, the member's earnable salary; (b) In the case of an electing employee, the amount that would be the electing employee's earnable salary if the electing employee was a member of the retirement system. (2) "Compensation ratio" means the ratio for the most recent full f...

...The funds hereby created are the employees' savings fund, the employers' accumulation fund, the annuity and pension reserve fund, the income fund, the survivors' benefit fund, the defined contribution fund, and the expense fund. (A) The employees' savings fund is the fund in which shall be accumulated contributions from the earnable salaries of contributors for the purchase of annuities or retirement allowanc...

...Should any employer fail to contribute to the employers' accumulation fund on a basis equal to that on which other employers are contributing, the public employees retirement board shall hold all contributions from such employer in a separate fund as long as the inequality of contributions continues. During that period no funds contributed by any other employers shall be used to pay benefits to persons who were emplo...

...When reference is made in this chapter, to the employees' savings fund, the employers' accumulation fund, the annuity and pension reserve fund, the income fund, the survivors' benefit fund, the defined contribution fund, or the expense fund, such reference is made to each as a separate legal entity. This section does not prevent the deposit or investment of all such moneys intermingled for such purpose but such funds...

...The treasurer of state shall be the custodian of the funds of the public employees retirement system, and all disbursements therefrom shall be paid by the treasurer of state only upon instruments authorized by the public employees retirement board and bearing the signatures of the board; provided, that such instruments may bear the names of the board members printed thereon and the signatures of the chairperson, or o...

...(A)(1) As used in this division, "personal history record" means information maintained by the public employees retirement board on an individual who is a member, former member, contributor, former contributor, retirant, or beneficiary that includes the address, telephone number, social security number, record of contributions, correspondence with the public employees retirement system, or other information the...

...(A) As used in this section, "paying system" and "transferring system" have the same meanings as in section 145.37 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Except as provided in division (B)(2) of this section, a member of the public employees retirement system with at least eighteen months of contributing service in the system, the state teachers retirement system, or the school employees retirement system who exempted self fro...

...(A) A member of the public employees retirement system who elects to purchase or otherwise obtain service credit under section 145.28, 145.291, 145.292, 145.293, or 145.299 or division (G) of section 145.47 of the Revised Code shall do both of the following: (1) Submit a request to the public employees retirement board in a manner or form approved by the board; (2) For each year, or portion of a year, of credit pur...

...Any member of the public employees retirement system who subsequent to January 1, 1935, and the date membership was established was off the payroll either on a leave of absence approved by the then appointing authority or because the member resigned due to pregnancy or adoption of a child may purchase service credit for the period of absence or resignation, provided that subsequent to such leave of absence or r...

... Credit for service between January 1, 1935, and the date of becoming a member of the public employees retirement system except a part-time employee who claimed exemption under the provisions of section 145.03 of the Revised Code, may be purchased by any public employee for service rendered an employer. Credit shall be purchased under this section in accordance with section 145.29 of the Revised Code.

...(A) Service credit may be purchased under this section for the following: (1) Service rendered in another state, and service in any entity operated by the United States government, that, if served in a comparable position in Ohio, would be covered by the public employees retirement system, Ohio police and fire pension fund, state teachers retirement system, school employees retirement system, or state highway...

...(A)(1) The public employees retirement board may establish by rule a payroll deduction plan for payment of the cost of restoring service credit under section 145.31 or 145.311 of the Revised Code or purchasing any service credit members of the public employees retirement system are eligible to purchase under this chapter, or for making additional deposits under section 145.583 or 145.62 of the Revised Code. In ...

...(A) As used in this section and section 145.2913 of the Revised Code: (1) "Uniform retirement system" or "uniform system" means the Ohio police and fire pension fund or state highway patrol retirement system. (2) "Military service credit" means credit purchased or obtained under this chapter or Chapter 742. or 5505. of the Revised Code for service in the armed forces of the United States. (B) A member of the publi...

...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...

...(A) As used in this section, "employing unit" means: (1) A municipal corporation, agency of a municipal corporation designated by the legislative authority, park district, conservancy district, sanitary district, health district, township, department of a township designated by the board of township trustees, metropolitan housing authority, public library, county law library, union cemetery, joint hospital, or other...