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... (A) As used in this section, "member" has the same meaning as in section 5505.01 of the Revised Code, except that it also includes a former member who has earned service credit and has not received a refund of accumulated contributions under section 5505.19 of the Revised Code. A member who became a member of the state highway patrol before January 1, 2020, may be granted retirement under this division if the memb...

...On receipt of notice from the public employees retirement system, Ohio police and fire pension fund, state teachers retirement system, or school employees retirement system of the re-employment of a retirant, the state highway patrol retirement system shall not pay, or if paid shall recover, any amount to be forfeited by the retirant in accordance with section 145.38, 742.26, 3307.35, or 3309.341 of the Revised Code.

...(A) As used in this division, "member" has the same meaning as in section 5505.01 of the Revised Code, except that it also includes a former member who has earned service credit and has not received a refund of accumulated contributions under section 5505.19 of the Revised Code. On application for retirement as provided in section 5505.16 of the Revised Code, a member of the state highway patrol retirement system ma...

...(A) A retirant who retired prior to September 21, 1994, under section 5505.16 of the Revised Code may elect to receive the actuarial equivalent of the retirant's pension in a lesser amount payable for the remainder of the retirant's life and continuing after death to the retirant's surviving designated beneficiary under one of the optional plans described in division (A)(2)(a), (b), or (c) of section 5505.162 of the ...

...(A)(1) Upon retirement as provided in section 5505.16 of the Revised Code, a state highway patrol retirement system retirant shall receive a life pension, without guaranty or refund, equal to the greater of one thousand fifty dollars or the sum of two and one-half per cent of the retirant's final average salary multiplied by the first twenty years of total service credit, plus two and one-quarter per cent of the reti...

...(A) All persons who retired and were eligible to receive a pension that was payable prior to July 1, 1968, pursuant to division (A)(1) of section 5505.17 or division (B)(1) of section 5505.18 of the Revised Code, shall receive an additional monthly payment of two dollars for each year between the member's effective date of retirement or disability and December 31, 1971, or an additional fifty dollars, whichever is le...

...On and after the effective date of this section, all persons who retired and were eligible to receive a pension that was first payable on or after July 1, 1968, and prior to July 1, 1971, pursuant to division (A)(1) of section 5505.17 or division (B)(1) of section 5505.18 of the Revised Code, shall receive an additional monthly payment of two dollars for each year between the member's effective date of retirement or ...

...(A) Effective July 1, 1981, each person eligible to receive an age and service or disability pension, allowance, or benefit pursuant to Chapter 5505. of the Revised Code, that was based upon an award made effective before October 1, 1974, shall have the person's monthly pension increased by five per cent of the first five thousand dollars of the annual pension, allowance, or benefit. (B) Effective July 1, 1981, eac...

...(A) Eligibility for an increase under this section shall be determined as follows: (1) For a person whose pension effective date is prior to January 7, 2013, an "eligible person" is one of the following: (a) A person fifty-three years old or older who has been receiving a pension pursuant to division (B) of section 5505.16, division (A)(1) of section 5505.17, or division (B) of section 5505.18 of the Revised Code f...

...henever 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 state highway patrol retirement board shall increase the amount of the pension, benefit, or allowance of any person whose pension, benefit, or allowance payable under section 5505.17, 5505.174, or 5505.18 of the Revised Code was limited by the application of section 415. T...

...(A) The state highway patrol retirement system shall increase the pension payable to each person receiving a pension granted prior to September 16, 1998, that was calculated under division (A)(1) of section 5505.17 of the Revised Code on the basis of total service credit of more than twenty-five years. The increase shall be an amount determined by multiplying the pension payable to the member on September 16, 1998, ...

...The state highway patrol 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 state highway patrol retirement system and be ma...

...Except as provided in division (A)(3) of section 5505.162 of the Revised Code, all pensions shall be paid in equal monthly installments.

...As used in this section, "member" does not include state highway patrol cadets attending training schools pursuant to section 5503.05 of the Revised Code. (A) Upon the application of a member of the state highway patrol retirement system, a person acting on behalf of a member, or the superintendent of the state highway patrol on behalf of a member, a member who becomes totally and permanently incapacitated for duty ...

...Not later than March 1, 2000, and each first day of March thereafter, the state highway patrol retirement board shall make and submit a report for the preceding fiscal year of the disability retirement experience of the state highway patrol. 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 o...

...Subject to section 5505.26 of the Revised Code, a member of the state highway patrol retirement system who ceases to be an employee of the state highway patrol for any cause except death, disability, or retirement, upon application filed in writing with the state highway patrol retirement board, shall be paid the accumulated contributions, less interest, standing to the credit of the member's individual account in th...

...Should a member of the state highway patrol retirement system cease to be an employee of the state highway patrol, for any reason, except retirement or death, the member shall thereupon cease to be a member of the retirement system. A member who is paid the member's accumulated contributions under section 5505.19 of the Revised Code shall forfeit the member's total service credit at that time. Should the former membe...

... Except for service credit transferred under section 5505.41 of the Revised Code, a member of the state highway patrol retirement system shall, in computing years of active service in the highway patrol under sections 5505.16, 5505.17, and 5505.18 of the Revised Code, be given full credit for time served as a police officer or firefighter covered under Chapter 742. and former Chapters 521. and 541. of the Revised Cod...

...(A) The state highway patrol retirement board may establish by rule a payroll deduction plan for payment of the following: (1) The cost of restoring service credit under section 5505.20 of the Revised Code or purchasing any service credit members of the state highway patrol retirement system are eligible to purchase under this chapter; (2) Charges for participation in programs established under section 5505.33 of t...

...Should a member or former member of the state highway patrol retirement system die and no pension becomes payable from funds of the system on account of the member's or former member's employment with the patrol, the member's or former member's accumulated contributions, less interest, standing to the member's or former member's credit in the employees' savings fund at the time of death shall be paid to the beneficia...

...The right of any individual to a pension, or to the return of accumulated contributions, payable as provided under this chapter, and all moneys and investments of the state highway patrol retirement system 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 county, municipal, or other local tax, except income taxes...

...The attorney general shall be the legal adviser to the state highway patrol retirement board.

...(A)(1) A member of the state highway patrol retirement system who is not receiving a pension from the system may purchase service credit for each year or portion of a year of service incurred by reason of having been on active duty as a member of the uniformed services of the United States if the member is honorably discharged. (2) On presentation of documentation of the service and subject to state highway patrol r...

...(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any payment that is to be made under a pension or other type of benefit, other than a survivorship benefit, that has been granted to a person under this chapter, any payment of accumulated contributions standing to a person's credit under this chapter, and any payment of any other amounts to be paid to a person under this chapter upon withdrawal of contribution...

...(A) As used in this section, "alternate payee," "benefit," "lump sum payment," "participant," and "public retirement program" have the same meanings as in section 3105.80 of the Revised Code. (B) On receipt of an order issued under section 3105.171 or 3105.65 of the Revised Code, the state highway patrol retirement system shall determine whether the order meets the requirements of sections 3105.80 to 3105.90 of the ...