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Ohio Rev Code § 145.291 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.291 | Purchasing Service Credit for Time Spent on Pregnancy or Adoption.

Effective: January 7, 2013|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 343 - 129th General Assembly|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 resignation the member returned to regular contributing status in the retirement system for at least twelve calendar months. In the case of resignation, the member must submit evidence satisfactory to the retirement board documenting that the resignation was due to pregnancy or adoption of a child. Credit shall be purchased under this section in accordance with section 145.29 of the Revised Code, except that service credit purchased under this section shall not exceed one year.
Ohio Rev Code § 145.292 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.292 | Credit for Prior Service.

Effective: January 7, 2013|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 343 - 129th General Assembly|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.
Ohio Rev Code § 145.293 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.293 | Credit for Prior Service - Comparable Public Position.

Effective: January 7, 2013|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 343 - 129th General Assembly|(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 patrol retirement system;(2) Service for which contributions were made by the member or on the member's behalf to a municipal retirement system in this state, except that if the conditions specified in section 145.2910 of the Revised Code are met, service credit for this service may be purchased only in accordance with section 145.2911 of the Revised Code.The number of years purchased under this section shall not exceed the lesser of five years or the member's total accumulated number of years of Ohio service.(B) Credit shall be purchased under this section in accordance with section 145.29 of the Revised Code.(C) A member is ineligible to purchase under this section credit for service under former section 145.44 of the Revised Code or service that is used in the calculation of any retirement benefit currently being paid or payable in the future to the member under any other retirement program except social security. At the time the credit is purchased the member shall certify on a form furnished by the retirement board that the member does and will conform to this requirement.(D) Credit purchased under this section may be combined pursuant to section 145.37 with credit purchased under sections 3307.74 and 3309.31 of the Revised Code, except that not more than an aggregate total of five years' service credit purchased under this section and sections 3307.74 and 3309.31 of the Revised Code shall be used in determining retirement eligibility or calculating benefits under section 145.37 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 145.296 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.296 | Contributions During Disability Leave.

Effective: June 30, 1991|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 382 - 119th General Assembly|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 employer who sponsors a disability leave program shall make the periodic employer and employee contributions, in the amounts set pursuant to sections 145.47 and 145.48 of the Revised Code, for contributors granted disability leave, based on the contributor's earnable salary in effect at the time disability leave was granted.
Ohio Rev Code § 145.299 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.299 | Purchasing Credit for Service as School Board Member.

Effective: January 7, 2013|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 343 - 129th General Assembly|(A) As used in this section, "school board member" means a member of a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district board of education and "governing board member" means a member of an educational service center governing board. (B) A member of the public employees retirement system may purchase credit for service as a school board member if all of the following conditions are met:(1) The member is eligible to retire under this chapter or will become eligible to retire as a result of purchasing the credit.(2) The member agrees to retire within ninety days after receiving notice of the additional liability under section 145.29 of the Revised Code.(3) The retirement system receives certification of the member's service and compensation as a school board or governing board member from the board of education or governing board of the district or educational service center in which the member served or, if that district or educational service center no longer exists, the board or governing board that controls the territory, or the largest part of the territory, of the district or educational service center in which the member served.(C) Credit shall be purchased under this section in accordance with section 145.29 of the Revised Code, except that payment for the credit or portion of credit shall be paid in full at the time of purchase.(D) The retirement system shall calculate the amount of credit the member is eligible to purchase by dividing the compensation received pursuant to section 3313.12 of the Revised Code for each month served as a school board or governing board member by the amount of compensation that, for the same month, the retirement system considered equivalent to full-time service.(E) Credit may be purchased for service as a school board or governing board member, other than service 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, between January 1, 1935, and the first day of January of the year in which the credit is purchased. A member may purchase not more than one-twelfth of a year's credit for each month of service as a school board or governing board member.(F) The public employees retirement board shall adopt rules in accordance with section 111.15 of the Revised Code concerning the purchase of credit under this section. In addition to any other matters considered relevant by the retirement board, the rules shall specify the procedure to be followed by a member to inform the system of the member's desire to purchase credit for service as a school board or governing board member.(G) If the member does not retire within ninety days after purchasing credit under this section, the system shall withdraw the credit and refund the amount paid by the member.
Ohio Rev Code § 145.2910 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.2910 | Transferring Service Credit and Contributions Between Pers and Cincinnati Retirement System.

Effective: April 1, 2001|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 535 - 123rd General Assembly|(A) As used in this section and sections 145.2911 and 145.2912 of the Revised Code, "military service credit" means service credit purchased or obtained under the public employees retirement system or city of Cincinnati retirement system for service in the armed forces of the United States.(B) Service credit and contributions may be transferred between the public employees retirement system and the city of Cincinnati retirement system as specified in sections 145.2911 and 145.2912 of the Revised Code if both of the following conditions are met:(1) The Cincinnati city council and the board of trustees of the Cincinnati retirement system take all actions, including the adoption of any ordinance or resolution, necessary to authorize the transfers.(2) The public employees retirement system and Cincinnati retirement system, through their boards of trustees, enter into an agreement governing the transfers that is consistent with the requirements of sections 145.2911 and 145.2912 of the Revised Code and includes both of the following:(a) A provision under which the retirement systems agree to transfer the amounts specified in those sections;(b) A provision that specifies an amount of credit the system to which the transfer is made will grant for a specific period of service earned under the transferring system.(C) The amount of credit specified under division (B)(2) of this section may be less than the person earned for a specific period of service under the transferring system.(D)(1) The public employees retirement system, through its board of trustees, and the Cincinnati retirement system, acting pursuant to the authority granted it by the Cincinnati city council, may do either of the following:(a) By mutual consent, modify the agreement described in this section;(b) Rescind the agreement described in this section.(2) Any action taken under division (D)(1) of this section does not affect any transfers made between the systems and grants of credit made by the systems prior to the time action is taken.(3) Rescinding an agreement as provided in division (D)(1)(b) of this section does not require mutual consent. The retirement system that rescinds the agreement must promptly notify the other.(E) If either of the conditions specified in division (B) of this section is not met, a member of the public employees retirement system who meets the requirements of section 145.293 of the Revised Code may purchase credit under division (A)(2) of that section for service in the Cincinnati retirement system.
Ohio Rev Code § 145.2916 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.2916 | Credit for Salary Increases for Elected Officials.

Effective: January 7, 2013|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 343 - 129th General Assembly|(A) When a member has been elected or appointed to an office, the term of which is two or more years, for which an annual salary is established, and in the event that the salary of the office is increased and the member is denied the additional salary by reason of any constitutional provision prohibiting an increase in salary during a term of office, the member may elect to have the amount of the member's and employer's contributions calculated upon the basis of the increased salary for the office. At the member's request and on notification to the public employees retirement system, the public employees retirement board shall compute the total additional amount the member and employer would have contributed, or the amount by which each of the member's and employer's contributions would have increased, had the member received the increased salary for the office the member holds. If the member elects to have the combined amount by which the member's and employer's contribution would have increased withheld from the member's salary, the member shall notify the employer, and the employer shall make the withholding commensurate with the period of denied salary and transmit it to the retirement system. The payment of the amount by which the employer's contribution would have increased shall be credited to the employers' accumulation fund.If the payment of the increased contributions is made in accordance with this section, the increased annual salary as provided by law for the office for the period for which the member paid increased contributions thereon shall be used in determining the member's earnable salary for the purpose of computing the member's final average salary.(B) If a member dies or withdraws from service, the payment under division (A) of this section shall be considered as accumulated contributions of the member.
Ohio Rev Code § 145.311 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.311 | Payroll Deduction Plans - Restoring Sers or Sters Credit.

Effective: March 23, 2015|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 42 - 130th General Assembly|(A) A member of the public employees retirement system who has at least eighteen months of contributing service credit in the system, the Ohio police and fire pension fund, school employees retirement system, state teachers retirement system, or state highway patrol retirement system, and is a former member of or no longer contributing to the school employees retirement system or state teachers retirement system may restore service credit under section 3307.71 or 3309.26 of the Revised Code by making payments pursuant to this section through a payroll deduction plan established under section 145.294 of the Revised Code. A member seeking to restore this service credit shall notify the public employees retirement system on a form approved by the public employees retirement board. After receiving the notice, the public employees retirement system shall request that the former retirement system calculate under section 3307.712 or 3309.262 of the Revised Code the cost to the member to restore service credit for each year or portion of a year of service for which the member seeks to restore the service credit. The amount the former retirement system certifies as the cost of restoring the service credit, plus interest described in division (B) of this section, is the cost to the member of restoring the service credit. On receiving the certification from the former retirement system, the public employees retirement system shall notify the member of the cost.(B) For each year or portion of a year of service credit restored under section 3307.71 or 3309.26 of the Revised Code, a member shall pay to the public employees retirement system the amount certified by the former retirement system plus interest at a rate specified by the former retirement system under section 3307.712 or 3309.262 of the Revised Code for the period during which deductions are made under section 145.294 of the Revised Code.(C) The public employees retirement board shall at least annually transmit to the former retirement system notice and any payments made to restore service credit under section 3307.71 or 3309.26 of the Revised Code. The former retirement system shall restore the service credit for the year or portion of a year for which the payment was made.(D) The board shall adopt rules to implement this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 145.312 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.312 | Proceedings on Request for Restoration of Service Credit.

Effective: July 13, 2000|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 190 - 123rd General Assembly|After receiving a request from the state teachers retirement system under division (A) of section 3307.711 or the school employees retirement system under division (A) of section 3309.261 of the Revised Code, the public employees retirement system shall do both of the following:(A) Calculate and certify to the requesting retirement system the cost to a former member to restore service credit under section 145.31 of the Revised Code for each year or portion of a year for which the former member seeks to restore service credit under that section.(B) Inform the requesting retirement system of the rate of interest charged to a member under a payroll deduction plan authorized under section 145.294 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 145.331 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.331 | Disability Allowance Recipient Applying for Service Retirement.

Effective: January 7, 2013|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 343 - 129th General Assembly|(A) A recipient of a disability allowance under section 145.361 of the Revised Code who is subject to division (C)(3) of that section may make application for age and service 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 determined under divisions (B)(1) and (2) of this section:(1) The greater of the following:(a) An allowance calculated as provided in section 145.33 or 145.332 of the Revised Code, excluding any period during which the applicant received a disability benefit under section 145.361 of the Revised Code;(b) An allowance calculated by multiplying the applicant's total service credit, including service credit for the last continuous period during which the applicant received a disability benefit under section 145.361 of the Revised Code, by two and two-tenths per cent of the applicant's final average salary, except that the allowance shall not exceed forty-five per cent of the applicant's final average salary.(2) An amount equal to the additional allowance the recipient would receive under section 145.323 of the Revised Code, plus any other additional amount the recipient would receive under this chapter, had the recipient retired under section 145.33 or 145.332 of the Revised Code effective on the effective date of the recipient's most recent continuous period of receipt of a disability benefit under section 145.361 of the Revised Code.(C) The allowance calculated under division (B) of this section, exclusive of any amount added under division (B)(2) of this section based on section 145.323 of the Revised Code, shall be the base for all future additional allowances under section 145.323 of the Revised Code.The anniversary date for future additional allowances under section 145.323 of the Revised Code shall be the effective date of the recipient's most recent continuous period of receipt of a disability benefit under section 145.361 of the Revised Code.(D) The retirement allowance determined under this section shall be paid as provided in section 145.46 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 145.333 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.333 | Contribution Based Benefit Cap.

Effective: January 7, 2013|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 343 - 129th General Assembly|(A) As used in this section: (1) "Retirement allowance" means any of the following as appropriate:(a) An allowance calculated under section 145.33 or 145.332 of the Revised Code prior to any reduction for early retirement or election under section 145.46 of the Revised Code of a plan of payment and exclusive of any amounts payable under divisions (I)(2)(b) and (c) or (I)(3)(b) and (c) of section 145.332 of the Revised Code;(b) An allowance calculated under division (A) of section 145.45 of the Revised Code;(c) An allowance calculated under division (B)(1)(a) of section 145.331 of the Revised Code.(2) "CBBC" means the contribution based benefit cap, a limit established by the public employees retirement board on the retirement allowance a member may receive.(B) Based on the advice of an actuary appointed by the board, the board shall designate a number as the CBBC factor. The board may revise the factor pursuant to advice from an actuary appointed by the board.(C) Prior to paying a retirement allowance, the public employees retirement system shall make the following calculations:(1) Determine an amount equal to the value of the member's accumulated contributions, exclusive of contributions payable under divisions (I)(2)(b) and (c) or (I)(3)(b) and (c) of section 145.332 of the Revised Code but including any contributions made under section 145.483 of the Revised Code that represent member contributions, any contributions used to fund a benefit under section 145.36 of the Revised Code, with interest compounded at a rate approved by the board, and a portion of any amounts paid by an employer under sections 145.297 or 145.298 of the Revised Code, as determined by an actuary appointed by the board;(2) Determine the amount of a single life annuity that is the actuarial equivalent of the amount determined under division (C)(1) of this section, adjusted for age of the member at the time of retirement or, when appropriate, the age at the time of the member's death;(3) Multiply the annuity amount determined under division (C)(2) of this section by the CBBC factor.(D) The amount determined under division (C)(3) of this section is the member's CBBC. Except as provided in division (E) of this section, if the retirement allowance the member would receive exceeds the member's CBBC, the allowance shall be reduced to an amount equal to the member's CBBC.(E) The retirement allowance of a member eligible for age and service retirement under division (A) of section 145.32 of the Revised Code or division (A) of section 145.332 of the Revised Code shall not be reduced under division (D) of this section by more than five per cent of the member's single lifetime allowance computed under section 145.33 or 145.332 of the Revised Code, unless during any full month of service earned after January 1, 1987, the member's earnable salary was less than one thousand dollars.
Ohio Rev Code § 145.334 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 1 | State Government|Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retirement System|Section 145.334 | Election as Pers Law Enforcement Officer or Public Safety Officer.

Effective: April 6, 2017|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 520 - 131st General Assembly|A member who, on the effective date of this section , meets the definition of bureau of criminal identification and investigation investigator, gaming agent, department of taxation investigator, special police officer for a port authority, or special police officer for a municipal airport in section 145.01 of the Revised Code may make the election to be considered a PERS law enforcement officer or PERS public safety officer by giving notice to the public employees retirement system on a form provided by the public employees retirement board. To be valid, the notice must be received by the retirement system not later than ninety days after the effective date of this section . The election, once made, causes the member to be considered a PERS law enforcement officer or PERS public safety officer and is irrevocable.Service credit earned by a member of the public employees retirement system before the first day of the first month following the retirement system's receipt of the notice of election shall not be considered service credit as a PERS law enforcement officer or PERS public safety officer.