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Ohio Rev Code § 145.17 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.17 | Department Monthly Statement.

Effective: June 30, 1991|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 382 - 119th General Assembly|The head of each department shall, on the first day of each calendar month, notify the public employees retirement board of the employment or the entering into office of new public employees, and shall submit to the board a statement showing the names, sex, title, earnable salary, duties, and date of birth of the new public employees, and shall also notify the board at the same time of all removals, withdrawals, and changes in salary of any contributors to the public employees retirement system that has occurred during the preceding month.
Ohio Rev Code § 145.171 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.171 | Information to New Employees.

Effective: September 21, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 628 - 123rd General Assembly|On receipt of notice under section 145.17 of the Revised Code of the employment of a new public employee, the public employees retirement system shall inform the employee of the requirements of section 145.19 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 145.18 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.18 | Records Kept by Department Heads.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Under the direction of the public employees retirement board, the head of each department shall keep such records as will enable him to furnish information in such form as the board requires in the discharge of its duties.
Ohio Rev Code § 145.19 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.19 | Electing Defined Benefit or Defined Contribution Plan.

Effective: January 7, 2013|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 343 - 129th General Assembly|(A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, an individual who becomes employed in a position subject to this chapter on or after January 1, 2003, shall make an election under this section. Not later than one hundred eighty days after the date on which employment begins, the individual shall elect to participate either in the PERS defined benefit plan or a PERS defined contribution plan. Unless a form evidencing an election under this section is received by the public employees retirement system on or before the last day of the one-hundred-eighty-day period, the individual is deemed to have elected to participate in the PERS defined benefit plan. (B) An election under this section shall be made on a form provided by the system and filed with the system.(C) An election under this section shall take effect on the date employment began and, except as provided in section 145.814 of the Revised Code or rules governing the PERS defined benefit plan, is irrevocable on receipt by the system.(D) An individual is ineligible to make an election under this section if one of the following applies:(1) The individual is a PERS retirant or other system retirant, as those terms are defined in section 145.38 of the Revised Code, or is retired under section 145.383 of the Revised Code.(2) The individual is participating or has elected to participate in an alternative retirement plan under section 3305.05 or 3305.051 of the Revised Code and the employment is in a position that is subject to division (C)(4) of section 3305.05 or division (F) of section 3305.051 of the Revised Code.(3) The individual has contributions standing to the individual's credit in the employees' savings fund or defined contribution fund established under section 145.23 of the Revised Code.(4) The individual is employed in a position covered under this chapter to which section 145.193 of the Revised Code applies.(5) The individual is a PERS law enforcement officer or PERS public safety officer.
Ohio Rev Code § 145.191 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.191 | Employee With Less Than 5 Years of Service Electing to Participate in Defined Contribution Plan.

Effective: March 23, 2015|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 42 - 130th General Assembly|(A) Except as provided in division (F) of this section, a public employees retirement system member or contributor who, as of December 31, 2002, has less than five years of total service credit is eligible to make an election under this section. A member or contributor who is employed in more than one position subject to this chapter is eligible to make only one election. The election applies to all positions subject to this chapter.Not later than June 30, 2003, an eligible member or contributor may elect to participate in a PERS defined contribution plan. Unless a form evidencing an election is received by the system on or before that date, a member or contributor to whom this section applies is deemed to have elected to continue participating in the PERS defined benefit plan.(B) An election under this section shall be made in writing on a form provided by the system and filed with the system.(C) On the request of a member or contributor who made an election under this section, the system shall credit to the plan elected the accumulated contributions standing to the credit of the member or contributor in the employees' savings fund and cancel all service credit and eligibility for any payment, benefit, or right under the PERS defined benefit plan.(D) For each member or contributor who elected under this section to participate in a PERS defined contribution plan and made a request under division (C) of this section, any additional deposits that were made by the member or contributor prior to April 6, 2007, under the version of division (C) of section 145.23 of the Revised Code as it existed immediately prior to that date shall be credited to the defined contribution plan.(E) An election under this section is effective as of January 1, 2003, and, except as provided in section 145.814 of the Revised Code or rules governing the PERS defined benefit plan, is irrevocable on receipt by the system.(F) An election may not be made under this section by a member or contributor who is either of the following:(1) A PERS retirant who is a member under division (C) of section 145.38 of the Revised Code;(2) A PERS law enforcement officer or a PERS public safety officer.
Ohio Rev Code § 145.192 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.192 | Effect of Electing Defined Contribution Plan.

Effective: January 7, 2013|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 343 - 129th General Assembly|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 retirement system, as defined in section 145.30 of the Revised Code, for service covered by the election.
Ohio Rev Code § 145.193 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.193 | Election After Reemployment.

Effective: January 7, 2013|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 343 - 129th General Assembly|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 positions subject to this chapter, receives a refund of the member's contributions made under section 145.47 or 145.85 of the Revised Code, and later becomes employed in a position subject to this chapter may make an election under section 145.19 of the Revised Code as provided by that section.
Ohio Rev Code § 145.194 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.194 | Contributions by Law Enforcement or Public Safety Officers to Defined Contribution Plan.

Effective: March 23, 2015|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 42 - 130th General Assembly|(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 plan.(B) A member described in division (A) of this section with contributions standing to the member's credit in a PERS defined contribution plan may elect to have those contributions deposited and credited in the PERS defined benefit plan in accordance with section 145.814 of the Revised Code and rules governing the PERS defined benefit plan.
Ohio Rev Code § 145.195 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.195 | Participants in Both Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution Plans.

Effective: January 7, 2013|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 343 - 129th General Assembly|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, or 145.332 of the Revised Code, or a benefit under a PERS defined contribution plan.
Ohio Rev Code § 145.20 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.20 | Elective Officials May Become Members of System - Credit for Prior Service.

Effective: January 7, 2013|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 343 - 129th General Assembly|(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 becomes a member of the system on or after January 1, 2003, shall make an election pursuant to section 145.19 of the Revised Code not later than one hundred eighty days after applying for membership in the system. The election is effective as of the date the official applies for membership and is irrevocable on receipt by the system. If a form evidencing an election is not received by the system not later than the last day of the one-hundred-eighty-day period, the official is deemed to have elected to participate in the PERS defined benefit plan. (B) Credit for service between January 1, 1935, and the date that membership is established, except service as an elective official that was subject to the tax on wages imposed by the "Federal Insurance Contributions Act," 68A Stat. 415 (1954), 26 U.S.C.A. 3101, as amended, may be secured by the elective official provided the elective official does all of the following:(1) Pays into the employees' savings fund an amount specified by the board that is equal to one hundred per cent of the additional liability resulting from the purchase of that year or portion of a year of credit as determined by an actuary employed by the board;(2) Completes one and one-half years of contributing membership in the public employees retirement system subsequent to the date membership was established;(3) Participates in the PERS defined benefit plan or a PERS defined contribution plan with definitely determinable benefits.A member may choose to purchase in any one payment only part of the credit the member is eligible to purchase, subject to board rules. The public employees retirement board shall determine the amount and manner of payment. In the event of death or withdrawal from service, the payment into the employees' savings fund for such service credit shall be considered as accumulated contributions of the member.
Ohio Rev Code § 145.21 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.21 | Individual Accounts for Each Member - Mortality Tables.

Effective: September 21, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 628 - 123rd General Assembly|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 various funds created by this chapter. Upon the basis of the mortality and service experience of the members, contributors, retirants, and beneficiaries of the public employees retirement system, the board shall adopt from time to time such tables as are deemed necessary for valuation purposes and for determining the amount of annuities to be allowed on the basis of the contributions.
Ohio Rev Code § 145.221 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.221 | Amortizing Unfunded Actuarial Accrued Pension Liability.

Effective: March 7, 1997|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 82 - 121st General Assembly|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, not later than ninety days after receipt of the valuation, shall prepare and submit to the Ohio retirement study commission and the standing committees of the house of representatives and the senate with primary responsibility for retirement legislation a report that includes the following information:(A) The number of years needed to amortize the unfunded actuarial accrued pension liability as determined by the annual actuarial valuation;(B) A plan approved by the board that indicates how the board will reduce the amortization period of unfunded actuarial accrued pension liability to not more than thirty years.
Ohio Rev Code § 145.24 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.24 | Inequality of Contributions by Employer.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|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 employees of such employer at the time of retirement.
Ohio Rev Code § 145.25 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.25 | Each Fund Is Separate Legal Entity.

Effective: September 21, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 628 - 123rd General Assembly|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 shall be separate and distinct legal entities for all other purposes.
Ohio Rev Code § 145.26 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.26 | Treasurer of State Custodian of Funds.

Effective: September 21, 2000|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 628 - 123rd General Assembly|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 of the vice-chairperson in case of the absence or disability of the chairperson, and of the executive director of the board. The signatures of the chairperson and of the executive director may be affixed through the use of a mechanical check-signing device.The treasurer of state shall give a separate and additional bond in such amount as is fixed by the governor and with sureties selected by the board and approved by the governor, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of the treasurer of state as custodian of the funds of the system. Such bond shall be deposited with the secretary of state and kept in the office. The governor may require the treasurer of state to give other and additional bonds, as the funds of the system increase, in such amounts and at such times as may be fixed by the governor, which additional bonds shall be conditioned, filed, and obtained as is provided for the original bond of the treasurer of state covering the funds of the system. The premium on all bonds shall be paid by the board.The treasurer of state shall deposit any portion of the funds of the system not needed for immediate use in the same manner as state funds are deposited, and subject to all laws with respect to the deposit of state funds, by the treasurer of state, and all interest earned by such portion of the retirement funds as is deposited by the treasurer of state shall be collected by the treasurer of state and placed to the credit of the board.The treasurer of state shall furnish annually to the board a sworn statement of the amount of the funds in the treasurer of state's custody belonging to the system.
Ohio Rev Code § 145.28 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.28 | Purchase of Service Credit for Period of Self-Exemption.

Effective: March 23, 2015|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 42 - 130th General Assembly|(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 from membership in one or more of the systems pursuant to section 145.03 or 3309.23 of the Revised Code, or former section 3307.25 or 3309.25 of the Revised Code, or was exempt under section 3307.24 of the Revised Code, may purchase credit for each year or portion of a year of service for which the member was exempted.(2) A member may not purchase credit under this section for exempted service if the service was exempted from contribution under section 145.03 of the Revised Code and subject to the tax on wages imposed by the "Federal Insurance Contributions Act," 68A Stat. 415 (1954), 26 U.S.C.A. 3101, as amended.(C) Credit shall be purchased under this section in accordance with section 145.29 of the Revised Code.(D) Credit purchasable under this section shall not exceed one year of service for any twelve-month period. If the period of service for which credit is purchasable under this section is concurrent with a period of service that will be used to calculate a retirement benefit from this system, the state teachers retirement system, or school employees retirement system, the amount of the credit shall be adjusted in accordance with rules adopted by the public employees retirement board.A member who is also a member of the state teachers retirement system or the school employees retirement system shall purchase credit for any service for which the member exempted self under section 145.03 or 3309.23 of the Revised Code, or former section 3307.25 or 3309.25 of the Revised Code, or was exempt under section 3307.24 of the Revised Code, from the retirement system in which the member has the greatest number of years of service credit. If the member receives benefits under section 145.37 of the Revised Code, the system that is the paying system under that section shall receive from the system or systems that are transferring systems the amounts paid by the member for purchase of credit for exempt service plus interest at the actuarial assumption rate of the transferring system. The interest shall be for the period beginning on the date of the member's last payment for purchase of the credit and ending on the date of the member's retirement.(E) The retirement board shall adopt rules to implement this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 145.29 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.29 | Procedure for Purchasing Credit.

Effective: March 23, 2015|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 42 - 130th General Assembly|(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 purchased or otherwise obtained, pay to the employees' savings fund an amount specified by the board that is equal to one hundred per cent of the additional liability resulting from purchasing or obtaining that year or portion of a year of credit as determined by an actuary employed by the board.(B) Subject to board rules, a member may choose to purchase or otherwise obtain in any one payment only part of any service credit listed in division (A) of this section.(C) If a member dies or withdraws from service, any payment made by the member to purchase or obtain any service credit listed in division (A) of this section shall be considered as accumulated contributions of the member. Last updated May 6, 2021 at 2:00 PM