Ohio Revised Code Chapter 145 - Public Employees Retirement System

• Section 145.01 - Public Employees Retirement System Definitions.
  As used in this chapter: (A) "Public employee" means: (1) Any person holding an office, not elective, under the state or any county, township,...
• Section 145.011 - Certain University And College Employees Included.
  In addition to the membership of the public employees retirement system as prescribed in division (A) of section 145.01 of the Revised Code and...
• Section 145.012 - Public Employee Defined.
  (A) "Public employee," as defined in division (A) of section 145.01 of the Revised Code, does not include any person: (1) Who is employed...
• Section 145.013 - Fireman Electing To Remain In System.
  A member of the public employees retirement system who on the effective date of this section is employed as a fireman in a position...
• Section 145.014 - Regional Council Of Governments Employees.
  (A) "Employer" or "public employer," as defined in division (D) of section 145.01 of the Revised Code, does not include a regional council created...
• Section 145.015 - County Historical Society Employee Electing To Remain In System.
  As used in this section, "county historical society" means a private, non-profit organization exempt from federal income taxation pursuant to section 501 (a) and...
• Section 145.016 - Credit For Contributing Service.
  Contributing service shall be allowed in accordance with the following: (A) For service not later than December 31, 2013, credit for any contributing service...
• Section 145.017 - Calculation Of Final Average Salary.
  (A) For a member eligible for a retirement allowance under division (A) or (B) of section 145.32 of the Revised Code or division (A),...
• Section 145.02 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.148, SB 343, §2, eff. 1/7/2013. Effective Date: 11-02-1999
• Section 145.03 - Public Employees Retirement System - Exemption From Compulsory Membership.
  (A) A public employees retirement system is hereby created for the public employees of the state and of the several local authorities mentioned in...
• Section 145.031 - Exemption Requests By Hamilton County Municipal Court Employees.
  (A) Notwithstanding section 145.03 of the Revised Code, any employee of the Hamilton county municipal court on January 16, 1978, who was in the...
• Section 145.032 - Exemption Requests By Hamilton County Air Pollution Control Employees.
  (A) Notwithstanding section 145.03 of the Revised Code, any employee of the Hamilton county department of air pollution control on January 1, 1980, who...
• Section 145.033 - Exemption Requests By Cincinnati Correctional Institute Employees.
  (A) Notwithstanding section 145.03 of the Revised Code, any employee of the Hamilton county sheriff on July 1, 1981, who was in the employ...
• Section 145.034 - Exemption Requests By Members Becoming Subject To Social Security Tax.
  A member of the public employees retirement system who is a public employee as defined in division (A)(2) of section 145.01 of the Revised...
• Section 145.035 - Exemption Requests By Department Of Development Employees Located In Foreign Countries.
  Notwithstanding section 145.03 of the Revised Code, an individual employed by, or otherwise compensated with state funds appropriated to, the department of development who...
• Section 145.036 - Transmission Of List Of Independent Contractors; Determination Of Status By Board.
  On or before the last day of January of each year, each public employer shall transmit to the public employees retirement system a list...
• Section 145.037 - Request To Be Classified As Public Employee.
  (A) As used in this section and section 145.038 of the Revised Code, "business entity" means an entity with five or more employees that...
• Section 145.038 - Acknowledgement Of Independent Contractor Status.
  (A) A public employer who on or after January 7, 2013, begins to receive personal services from an individual it classifies as an independent...
• Section 145.04 - Public Employees Retirement Board.
  (A) The general administration and management of the public employees retirement system and the making effective of Chapter 145. of the Revised Code, are...
• Section 145.041 - Orientation Program Required For Members - Continuing Education.
  Each member of the public employees retirement board shall, not later than ninety days after commencing service as a board member, complete the orientation...
• Section 145.042 - Members With Excessive Travel Expenses Ineligible For Another Term.
  A person who served as an elected or appointed member of the public employees retirement board for one or more entire fiscal years in...
• Section 145.05 - Term Of Office - Election Of Employee Members - Eligibility - Nomination By Petition.
  (A) The terms of office of employee members of the public employees retirement board shall be for four years each beginning on the first...
• Section 145.051 - Special Election Where Person Elected Unable To Serve.
  If a person elected to serve on the public employees retirement board is unable to assume office at the January meeting of the board...
• Section 145.052 - Board Member Election Unnecessary If Only One Candidate Nominated.
  Notwithstanding sections 145.04 and 145.05 of the Revised Code, the public employees retirement board is not required to hold an election, including a special...
• Section 145.053 - Candidate Campaign Finance Statements - Donor Statement Of Independent Expenditures.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Campaign committee" means a candidate or a combination of two or more persons authorized by a candidate...
• Section 145.054 - Filing Of Statements - Prohibited Campaign Activities.
  (A) No person shall knowingly fail to file a complete and accurate campaign finance statement or independent expenditure statement in accordance with section 145.053...
• Section 145.055 - Complaint Alleging Violation Of Rc 145.054 - Procedure - Fine.
  The secretary of state, or any person acting on personal knowledge and subject to the penalties of perjury, may file a complaint with the...
• Section 145.057 - Disqualification Of Convicted Member - Misconduct In Office - Removal Procedure.
  (A) The office of a member of the public employees retirement board who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a felony, a theft...
• Section 145.058 - Adoption Of Election Rules - Certification Of Nominating Petitions And Election Results.
  (A) The public employees retirement board, following consultation with the secretary of state, shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised...
• Section 145.06 - Vacancies.
  (A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, if a vacancy occurs in the term of any employee member of the public...
• Section 145.07 - Oath Of Office - Quorum - Meetings.
  Each member of the public employees retirement board, upon assuming office, shall take an oath that the member will support the constitution of the...
• Section 145.08 - Reimbursing Expenses Of Board Members - Liability Insurance.
  (A) The members of the public employees retirement board shall serve without compensation but shall suffer no loss or penalty whatsoever because of absence...
• Section 145.09 - Election Of Chairperson And Appointment Of Executive Director - Powers And Duties Of Board.
  The public employees retirement board shall elect from its membership a chairperson . The board shall appoint an executive director who shall serve as...
• Section 145.091 - Administering Defined Benefit And Defined Contribution Plans.
  The public employees retirement system shall administer the PERS defined benefit plan and the PERS defined contribution plans. Effective Date: 10-01-2002
• Section 145.092 - Travel Expense Policies - Bonus Policy - Budget.
  (A) The public employees retirement board, in consultation with the Ohio ethics commission, shall review any existing policy regarding the travel and payment of...
• Section 145.093 - Ethics Policy - Commission Approval - Ethics Training.
  The public employees retirement board shall, in consultation with the Ohio ethics commission, develop an ethics policy to govern board members and employees in...
• Section 145.094 - Chief Investment Officer - Supervision Duties - Monitoring Of Securities Transactions.
  (A) The public employees retirement board shall designate a person who is a licensed state retirement system investment officer to be the chief investment...
• Section 145.095 - Selection Of Internal Auditor.
  The public employees retirement board shall appoint a committee to oversee the selection of an internal auditor. The committee shall select one or more...
• Section 145.10 - Legal Adviser.
  The attorney general shall be the legal adviser of the public employees retirement board. Effective Date: 10-01-1953
• Section 145.101 - Venue For Court Actions.
  Any action brought against the public employees retirement system or the public employees retirement board or its officers, employees, or board members in their...
• Section 145.11 - Investment Powers And Fiduciary Duties Of Board.
  (A) The members of the public employees retirement board shall be the trustees of the funds created by section 145.23 of the Revised Code....
• Section 145.111 - No Board Member Or Employee Shall Have An Interest In Board Funds.
  Except as provided in this chapter, no member or employee of the public employees retirement board shall have any interest direct or indirect in...
• Section 145.112 - Prohibited Business Transactions.
  The public employees retirement system shall make no investments through or purchases from, or otherwise do any business with, any individual who is, or...
• Section 145.113 - Restrictions On Fiduciaries.
  (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, a fiduciary shall not cause the public employees retirement system to engage in a...
• Section 145.114 - Designation Of Ohio-qualified Agents - Selection Policy - Utilization - Annual Report.
  (A) As used in this section and in section 145.116 of the Revised Code: (1) "Agent" means a dealer, as defined in section 1707.01...
• Section 145.115 - Annual Disclosures To Ohio Ethics Commission.
  (A) The public employees retirement system shall disclose the following to the Ohio ethics commission: (1) Anything of value received by the system from...
• Section 145.116 - Designation Of Ohio-qualified Investment Managers - Utilization - Annual Report.
  (A) The public employees retirement board shall, for the purposes of this section, designate an investment manager as an Ohio-qualified investment manager if the...
• Section 145.12 - Certifying Rate Necessary To Pay Employer Contributions.
  The public employees retirement board shall prepare and submit to the board of county commissioners and county auditor of each county, to the executive...
• Section 145.13 - Denomination Of Bonds.
  Bonds purchased from any taxing district of the state shall be in the denomination required by the public employees retirement board in its resolution...
• Section 145.14 - Percentage Of Funds Available For Annuities And Other Payments - Deposit.
  For the purpose of meeting disbursements for annuities and other payments in excess of the receipts, there shall be kept available by the treasurer...
• Section 145.15 - Employee Information Provided By Each Department.
  The head of each department shall submit to the public employees retirement board a statement showing the name, sex, title, earnable salary, duties, date...
• Section 145.16 - Statement To Be Filed By Employee Member.
  Each public employee shall file a detailed statement of all his previous service as a public employee and shall furnish such other information as...
• Section 145.17 - Department Monthly Statement.
  The head of each department shall, on the first day of each calendar month, notify the public employees retirement board of the employment or...
• Section 145.171 - Information To New Employees.
  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...
• Section 145.18 - Records Kept By Department Heads.
  Under the direction of the public employees retirement board, the head of each department shall keep such records as will enable him to furnish...
• Section 145.19 - Electing Defined Benefit Or Defined Contribution Plan.
  (A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, an individual who becomes employed in a position subject to this chapter on or...
• Section 145.191 - Employee With Less Than 5 Years Of Service Electing To Participate In Defined Contribution Plan.
  (A) Except as provided in division (F) of this section, a public employees retirement system member or contributor who, as of December 31, 2002,...
• Section 145.192 - Effect Of Electing Defined Contribution Plan.
  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...
• Section 145.193 - Election After Reemployment.
  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...
• Section 145.194 - Contributions By Law Enforcement Or Public Safety Officers To Defined Contribution Plan.
  (A) A member participating in a PERS defined contribution plan who becomes a PERS law enforcement officer or PERS public safety officer shall cease...
• Section 145.195 - Participants In Both Defined Benefit And Defined Contribution Plans.
  The public employees retirement system may, in accordance with rules it adopts under this section, permit a member who participated in both the PERS...
• Section 145.20 - Elective Officials May Become Members Of System - Credit For Prior Service.
  (A) Any elective official of the state of Ohio or of any political subdivision thereof having employees in the public employees retirement system shall...
• Section 145.201 - Additional Service Credit Purchased By Elected Or Appointed Officials.
  (A) Subject to the limit described in division (C) of this section, any member who is or has been an elected official of the...
• Section 145.202 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 09-14-2000
• Section 145.203 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 10-13-2000
• Section 145.21 - Individual Accounts For Each Member - Mortality Tables.
  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...
• Section 145.22 - Actuarial Valuation Of Pension Assets, Liabilities, And Funding Requirements.
  (A) The public employees retirement board shall have prepared annually by or under the supervision of an actuary an actuarial valuation of the pension...
• Section 145.221 - Amortizing Unfunded Actuarial Accrued Pension Liability.
  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...
• Section 145.23 - Creation Of Funds.
  The funds hereby created are the employees' savings fund, the employers' accumulation fund, the annuity and pension reserve fund, the income fund, the survivors'...
• Section 145.24 - Inequality Of Contributions By Employer.
  Should any employer fail to contribute to the employers' accumulation fund on a basis equal to that on which other employers are contributing, the...
• Section 145.25 - Each Fund Is Separate Legal Entity.
  When reference is made in this chapter, to the employees' savings fund, the employers' accumulation fund, the annuity and pension reserve fund, the income...
• Section 145.26 - Treasurer Of State Custodian Of 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...
• Section 145.27 - Annual Statement Of Funds.
  (A) (1) As used in this division, "personal history record" means information maintained by the public employees retirement board on an individual who is...
• Section 145.28 - Purchase Of Service Credit For Period Of Self-exemption.
  (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)...
• Section 145.29 - .
  (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,...
• Section 145.291 - Purchasing Service Credit For Time Spent On Pregnancy Or Adoption.
  Any member of the public employees retirement system who subsequent to January 1, 1935, and the date membership was established was off the payroll...
• Section 145.292 - Credit For Prior Service.
  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...
• Section 145.293 - Credit For Prior Service - Comparable Public Position.
  (A) Service credit may be purchased under this section for the following: (1) Service rendered in another state, and service in any entity operated...
• Section 145.294 - Payroll Deduction Plans.
  (A) (1) The public employees retirement board may establish by rule a payroll deduction plan for payment of the cost of restoring service credit...
• Section 145.295 - Credit For Service In Uniform Retirement System.
  (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...
• Section 145.296 - Contributions During Disability Leave.
  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...
• Section 145.297 - Retirement Incentive Plan.
  (A) As used in this section, "employing unit" means: (1) A municipal corporation, agency of a municipal corporation designated by the legislative authority, park...
• Section 145.298 - Retirement Incentive Plan - Closing Of Or Layoff At State Institution.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "State employing unit" means an employing unit described in division (A)(2) of section 145.297 of the Revised...
• Section 145.299 - Purchasing Credit For Service As School Board Member.
  (A) As used in this section, "school board member" means a member of a city, local, exempted village, or joint vocational school district board...
• Section 145.2910 - Transferring Service Credit And Contributions Between Pers And Cincinnati Retirement System.
  (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...
• Section 145.2911 - Eligibility For Credit For Service In Cincinnati Retirement System.
  (A) If the conditions described in division (B) of section 145.2910 of the Revised Code are met, a member of the public employees retirement...
• Section 145.2912 - Transferring Contributions To Cincinnati Retirement System.
  (A) If the conditions described in division (B) of section 145.2910 of the Revised Code are met and a person who is a member...
• Section 145.2913 - Transferred Service Credit From Uniform Retirement System.
  (A) As used in this section, "transferred service credit" means service credit purchased or obtained under section 742.21, 742.214, 742.375, 5505.201, 5505.40, or 5505.41...
• Section 145.2914 - Non-law Enforcement Service As Law Enforcement Service.
  (A) The public employees retirement board may adopt rules in accordance with section 145.09 of the Revised Code to establish a program under which...
• Section 145.2915 - Credit For Work Missed While Receiving Workers' Compensation.
  (A) As used in this section, "workers' compensation" means benefits paid under Chapter 4121. or 4123. of the Revised Code. (B) A member of...
• Section 145.2916 - Credit For Salary Increases For Elected Officials.
  (A) When a member has been elected or appointed to an office, the term of which is two or more years, for which an...
• Section 145.30 - Credit For Military Service.
  (A) (1) As used in this section and section 145.301 of the Revised Code: (a) "Armed forces" of the United States includes the following:...
• Section 145.301 - Purchasing Military Service Credit.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Prisoner of war" means any regularly appointed, enrolled, enlisted, or inducted member of the armed forces of...
• Section 145.302 - Purchasing Uniformed Services Credit.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Service in the uniformed services" means the performance of duty on a voluntary or involuntary basis in...
• Section 145.31 - Restoring Service Credit.
  (A) (1) Except as provided in this section, a member or former member of the public employees retirement system with at least eighteen months...
• Section 145.311 - Payroll Deduction Plans - Restoring Sers Or Sters Credit.
  (A) A member of the public employees retirement system who has at least eighteen months of contributing service credit in the system, the Ohio...
• Section 145.312 - Proceedings On Request For Restoration Of Service Credit.
  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...
• Section 145.32 - Age And Service Retirement.
  Eligibility of members of the public employees retirement system, other than those subject to section 145.332 of the Revised Code, for age and service...
• Section 145.321 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.148, SB 343, §2, eff. 1/7/2013. Effective Date: 02-01-2002
• Section 145.322 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.148, SB 343, §2, eff. 1/7/2013. Effective Date: 09-21-2000
• Section 145.323 - Cost Of Living Increase.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the public employees retirement board shall annually increase each allowance, pension, or benefit payable under this...
• Section 145.324 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.148, SB 343, §2, eff. 1/7/2013. Effective Date: 08-20-1976
• Section 145.325 - [Renumbered].
  Renumbered as § 145.584 by 129th General AssemblyFile No.148, SB 343, §1, eff. 1/7/2013. Effective Date: 09-21-2000
• Section 145.326 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.148, SB 343, §2, eff. 1/7/2013. Effective Date: 06-29-2001
• Section 145.327 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.148, SB 343, §2, eff. 1/7/2013. Effective Date: 12-30-1972
• Section 145.328 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.148, SB 343, §2, eff. 1/7/2013. Effective Date: 12-19-1973
• Section 145.329 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.148, SB 343, §2, eff. 1/7/2013. Effective Date: 10-01-1974
• Section 145.3210 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.148, SB 343, §2, eff. 1/7/2013. Effective Date: 06-29-2001
• Section 145.3211 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.148, SB 343, §2, eff. 1/7/2013. Effective Date: 09-26-1988
• Section 145.3212 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.148, SB 343, §2, eff. 1/7/2013. Effective Date: 09-27-1996
• Section 145.3213 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.148, SB 343, §2, eff. 1/7/2013. Effective Date: 09-21-2000
• Section 145.33 - Allowance Upon Age And Service Retirement.
  (A) (1) Except as provided in section 145.332 of the Revised Code, when a member retires on age and service retirement, the member's total...
• Section 145.331 - Disability Allowance Recipient Applying For Service Retirement.
  (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...
• Section 145.332 - Determination Of Eligibility For Age And Service Retirement.
  Eligibility of members of the public employees retirement system, other than those subject to section 145.32 of the Revised Code, for age and service...
• Section 145.333 - Contribution Based Benefit Cap.
  (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...
• Section 145.34 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.148, SB 343, §2, eff. 1/7/2013. Effective Date: 09-21-2000
• Section 145.35 - Providing Disability Coverage For On-duty Illness Or Injury.
  (A) As used in this section and sections 145.362 and 145.363 of the Revised Code: (1) "Examining physician" means a physician appointed by the...
• Section 145.351 - Annual Report Disability Retirement Experience Of Each Employer.
  Not later than March 1, 2000, and each first day of March thereafter, the public employees retirement board shall make and submit a report...
• Section 145.36 - Benefits Upon Disability Retirement.
  A member who has elected disability coverage under this section, has not attained the applicable age , and is determined by the public employees...
• Section 145.361 - Annual Amount Of Disability Allowance.
  (A) A member with disability coverage under this section who is determined by the public employees retirement board under section 145.35 of the Revised...
• Section 145.362 - Disability Benefit Recipient To Retain Membership Status.
  A disability benefit recipient whose application for a disability benefit was received by the public employees retirement system before January 7, 2013, shall, regardless...
• Section 145.363 - Social Security Disability Insurance Benefits.
  This section does not apply to a disability recipient who, at the time contributing service terminated, was a PERS law enforcement officer. (A) A...
• Section 145.37 - Coordinating And Integrating Membership In State Retirement Systems.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "State retirement system" means the public employees retirement system, school employees retirement system, or state teachers retirement...
• Section 145.38 - Employment Of Retirant.
  (A) As used in this section and sections 145.381 and 145.384 of the Revised Code: (1) "PERS retirant" means a former member of the...
• Section 145.381 - Re-employing Retirant.
  (A) This section applies in the case of a person who is or most recently has been employed by a public employer in a...
• Section 145.382 - Employment Of Certain Retirants Notwithstanding Restrictions.
  (A) A former member receiving an age and service retirement allowance from the public employees retirement system, and hereafter referred to as a retirant,...
• Section 145.383 - Continuing Contributions To State System After Retirement.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Compensation" has the same meaning as in section 3307.01 or 3309.01 of the Revised Code, as appropriate....
• Section 145.384 - Retirant May Apply For Monthly Annuity Or Lump Sum Payment.
  (A) As used in this section, "PERS retirant" means a PERS retirant who is not subject to division (C) of section 145.38 of the...
• Section 145.385 - Reemployed Retirant Electing To Resume Retirement Allowance.
  (A) A PERS retirant who made an election under former section 145.381 of the Revised Code under which the annuity portion of the retirant's...
• Section 145.39 - Increasing Pension, Benefit, Or Allowance When Limits Of 26 Usc 415 Are Raised.
  Whenever 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,...
• Section 145.391 - Establishing And Maintaining Qualified Governmental Excess Benefit Arrangement.
  The public employees retirement board may establish and maintain a qualified governmental excess benefit arrangement that meets the requirements of division (m) of section...
• Section 145.40 - Payment To Member Who Ceases To Be A Public Employee.
  (A) (1) Subject to the provisions of section 145.57 of the Revised Code and except as provided in d division (B) of this section,...
• Section 145.401 - Making Additional Payment Upon Death Of Member Or Withdrawal Of Contributions.
  (A) As used in this section , "service credit" means service credit earned for periods for which contributions were made under section 145.47 of...
• Section 145.402 - Payments To Members Who Are Members Of Another State Retirement System.
  (A) As used in this section, "other retirement system" means the state teachers retirement system or the school employees retirement system. (B) Except as...
• Section 145.41 - Termination Of Membership - Leave Of Absence.
  Membership shall cease upon refund of accumulated contributions, death, or retirement except as provided in section 145.362 of the Revised Code. A member who...
• Section 145.42 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.148, SB 343, §2, eff. 1/7/2013. Effective Date: 09-21-2000
• Section 145.43 - Designation Or Qualification Of Beneficiaries.
  (A) As used in this section and in section 145.45 of the Revised Code: (1) "Child" means a biological or legally adopted child of...
• Section 145.431 - Designation Of Beneficiary.
  Designation of a beneficiary for the purposes of section 145.40 of the Revised Code or a return of contributions to the beneficiary of a...
• Section 145.44 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.148, SB 343, §2, eff. 1/7/2013. Effective Date: 07-29-1992
• Section 145.45 - Beneficiary May Substitute Other Benefits.
  Except as provided in division (C)(1) of this section, in lieu of accepting the payment of the accumulated account of a member who dies...
• Section 145.451 - Payment Of Death Benefit.
  (A) Upon the death of a retirant or disability benefit recipient, who at the time of death is receiving an age and service retirement...
• Section 145.452 - Continuation Of Service Credit Purchase Upon Death Of Member.
  The surviving spouse of a member who dies on or after the effective date of this amendment may continue any service credit purchase the...
• Section 145.453 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 06-30-1991
• Section 145.46 - Electing A Plan Of Payment.
  (A) A retirement allowance calculated under section 145.33, 145.331, or 145.332 of the Revised Code shall be paid as provided in this section. Unless...
• Section 145.461 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.148, SB 343, §2, eff. 1/7/2013. Effective Date: 07-01-1981
• Section 145.462 - [Repealed].
  Repealed by 129th General AssemblyFile No.148, SB 343, §2, eff. 1/7/2013. Effective Date: 02-16-1984
• Section 145.47 - Per Cent Of Compensation Required As Contribution - Deductions.
  (A) Each public employee who is a contributor to the public employees retirement system shall contribute eight per cent of the contributor's earnable salary...
• Section 145.471 - Crediting Of Interest To Individual Accounts Of Contributors.
  (A) (1) On and after December 13, 2000, the public employees retirement board shall credit interest to the individual accounts of contributors, except that...
• Section 145.472 - Crediting Of Interest On Account Balances Of Contributors As Of 12-31-98.
  This section applies to individuals who are contributors on December 13, 2000. (A) Not later than thirty days after December 13, 2000, the public...
• Section 145.473 - Interest Rates.
  (A) The rate of interest credited to individual accounts of contributors under sections 145.471 and 145.472 of the Revised Code shall be as follows:...
• Section 145.48 - Rate Of Employer Contribution.
  (A) Each employer shall pay to the public employees retirement system an amount that shall be a certain per cent of the earnable salary...
• Section 145.481, 145.482 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 11-20-1973
• Section 145.483 - Statement Of Delinquent Contributions.
  Upon a finding that an employer failed to deduct contributions pursuant to section 145.47 of the Revised Code during a period of employment for...
• Section 145.49 - Calculations Of Employee And Employer Contribution Rates Separately.
  (A) Notwithstanding section 145.47 of the Revised Code: (1) The public employees retirement system shall be authorized to calculate the employee contribution rates separately...
• Section 145.491 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 145.49.
  Effective Date: 09-21-2000
• Section 145.50 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 09-21-2000
• Section 145.51 - Payments Into Employer's Accumulation Fund.
  (A) Each employer described in division (D) of section 145.01 of the Revised Code shall pay into the employers' accumulation fund, in monthly installments,...
• Section 145.52 - Transitional Liability - Installment Payments.
  (A) As used in this section and section 145.53 of the Revised Code, "transitional liability" means an amount equal to the employer obligation due...
• Section 145.53 - Amounts Credited To Employer Transitional Liability.
  (A) From the employer obligation for the month of February 2008, under section 145.51 of the Revised Code, an amount equal to the portion...
• Section 145.531 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 11-20-1973
• Section 145.54 - Annual Estimate Of Amount Necessary To Defray Expenses; Transfer Of Funds.
  The public employees retirement board shall estimate annually the amount required to defray the expenses of the administration of the public employees retirement system...
• Section 145.55 - Members Deemed To Consent To Deductions.
  The deductions provided for in this chapter shall be made notwithstanding that the minimum compensation provided for by law for any contributor is reduced...
• Section 145.56 - [Effective Until 1/1/2016] Tax Exemptions.
  The right of an individual to a pension, an annuity, or a retirement allowance itself, the right of an individual to any optional benefit,...
• Section 145.56 - [Effective 1/1/2016] Tax Exemptions.
  The right of an individual to a pension, an annuity, or a retirement allowance itself, the right of an individual to any optional benefit,...
• Section 145.561 - Acquiring Vested Right In Pension When Granted.
  (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section and section 145.363, 145.573, or 145.574 of the Revised Code, the granting of a...
• Section 145.562 - Waiver Of Rights.
  (A) Any person who is receiving an allowance or benefit or any increases under this chapter may, at any time, waive his rights thereto,...
• Section 145.563 - Adjustment For And Recovery Of Erroneous Payments.
  Notwithstanding section 145.561 of the Revised Code: (A) The public employees retirement system may adjust an allowance or benefit payable under this chapter if...
• Section 145.564 - Payroll Deduction Of Membership Dues And Fees Of Retiree Organizations.
  Any person receiving from the public employees retirement system an allowance, annuity, pension, or benefit may authorize the system to make deductions therefrom for...
• Section 145.57 - Restitution Order Based On Theft In Office Or Certain Sex Offenses.
  (A) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any payment that is to be made under a pension, annuity, allowance, or other type of...
• Section 145.571 - [Effective Until 1/1/2016] Order For Division Of Marital Property.
  (A) As used in this section, "alternate payee," "benefit," "lump sum payment," "participant," and "public retirement program" have the same meanings as in section...
• Section 145.571 - [Effective 1/1/2016] Order For Division Of Marital Property.
  (A) As used in this section, "alternate payee," "benefit," "lump sum payment," "participant," and "public retirement program" have the same meanings as in section...
• Section 145.572 - Forfeiture Of Retirement Benefits Under Rc 2929.192.
  (A) (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the following shall be subject to a forfeiture ordered under division (A) or (B) of...
• Section 145.573 - Benefits Subject To Termination.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a disability benefit granted under this chapter is subject to an order issued under section 2929.193 of...
• Section 145.574 - Forfeiture.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any right of a member of the public employees retirement system to a disability benefit is subject...
• Section 145.58 - Group Health Insurance Coverage For Retired Persons And Survivors.
  (A) The public employees retirement board shall adopt rules establishing eligibility for any coverage provided under this section. The rules shall base eligibility on...
• Section 145.581 - Establishing Programs For Long Term Health Care Insurance.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Long-term care insurance" has the same meaning as in section 3923.41 of the Revised Code. (2) "Retirement...
• Section 145.582 - Providing Health Care Coverage For Elected Officials Given Erroneous Information.
  If the public employees retirement system, between June 1, 1992, and December 31, 1992, informed a member in writing that, as a recipient of...
• Section 145.583 - Deposits To Fund Payments Under Plan.
  The PERS defined benefit plan or a PERS defined contribution plan may include a program under which a member participating in the plan, the...
• Section 145.584 - Benefits Equivalent To Medicare.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, the board of the public employees retirement system shall make available to each...
• Section 145.59 - Renumbered Rc 145.70.
  Effective Date: 2000 HB628 09-21-2000
• Section 145.62 - Additional Deposits In Employee Savings Fund.
  Subject to rules adopted by the public employees retirement system under section 145.09 of the Revised Code, a contributor participating in the PERS defined...
• Section 145.63 - Refund Of Additional Deposits.
  (A) Deposits under section 145.62 of the Revised Code, together with earnings, shall be refunded under whichever of the following circumstances applies: (1) On...
• Section 145.64 - Application For Benefit Where Refund Not Received.
  (A) As used in this section, "joint-life plan," "single-life plan," and "multiple-life plan" have the same meanings as in division (B) of section 145.46...
• Section 145.65 - Payment Of Deposits Made By Deceased Contributor.
  (A) As used in this section, "child," "parent," and "surviving spouse" have the same meanings as in section 145.43 of the Revised Code. (B)...
• Section 145.69 - Budgeting Amount Necessary To Pay The State's Obligation As Employer.
  The public employees retirement board shall prepare and certify to the director of budget and management and to the heads of the departments, on...
• Section 145.70 - Payment Of Amounts Due Retirement System From Treasury.
  All amounts due the public employees retirement system from the state treasury pursuant to this chapter shall be promptly paid upon warrant of the...
• Section 145.71 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 148.01.
  Effective Date: 2000 HB628 09-21-2000
• Section 145.72 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 148.02.
  Effective Date: 2000 HB628 09-21-2000
• Section 145.73 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 148.04.
  Effective Date: 2000 HB628 09-21-2000
• Section 145.74 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 148.06.
  Effective Date: 2000 HB628 09-21-2000
• Section 145.75 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 148.09.
  Effective Date: 2000 HB628 09-21-2000
• Section 145.76 - Amended And Renumbered Rc 148.10.
  Effective Date: 2000 HB628 09-21-2000
• Section 145.80 - Rules For Defined Contribution Plans.
  The public employees retirement board shall adopt rules to implement each PERS defined contribution plan. Effective Date: 10-01-2002
• Section 145.81 - Establishment And Administration Of Defined Contribution Plan.
  The public employees retirement board shall establish the PERS defined contribution plans, which shall be one or more plans consisting of benefit options that...
• Section 145.811 - Qualification Of Plan As Governmental Plan For Federal Tax Purposes.
  Each PERS defined contribution plan shall qualify as a governmental plan under section 414(d) of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085,...
• Section 145.812 - Qualification Of Plan As Retirement System Maintained By A State Or Local Government Entity For Federal Tax Purposes.
  Each PERS defined contribution plan shall meet the requirements necessary to qualify as a retirement system maintained by a state or local government entity...
• Section 145.813 - Maintaining Individual Account For Each Participant.
  Each PERS defined contribution plan shall require the public employees retirement board, or the entity administering the plan pursuant to a contract with the...
• Section 145.814 - Electing To Participate In Different Plan.
  (A) As used in this section , "eligible member" means a member who was eligible to make an election under section 145.19 or 145.191...
• Section 145.82 - Application Of Chapter To Defined Contribution Plan.
  (A) Except as provided in divisions (B) and (C) of this section, sections 145.201 to 145.70 of the Revised Code do not apply to...
• Section 145.83 - Accumulating Contributions To Pay Medical And Insurance Expenses.
  A PERS defined contribution plan may include a program described in section 145.583 of the Revised Code under which a member participating in the...
• Section 145.85 - Contributions Of Members.
  Each member participating in a PERS defined contribution plan shall contribute a per cent of the member's earnable salary to the public employees retirement...
• Section 145.86 - Contributions Of Employers.
  For each member participating in a PERS defined contribution plan, the employer shall contribute a per cent of the member's earnable salary to the...
• Section 145.87 - Transferring Portion Of Employer Contribution To Employers' Accumulation Fund.
  For each member participating in a PERS defined contribution plan, the public employees retirement system may transfer to the employers' accumulation fund a portion...
• Section 145.88 - Withholding.
  Amounts contributed under sections 145.85 and 145.86 of the Revised Code, and any earnings on those amounts, shall be deposited and credited in accordance...
• Section 145.91 - Member Rights Governed By Plan Selected.
  The right of each member participating in a PERS defined contribution plan to a retirement, disability, survivor, or death benefit, to health or long-term...
• Section 145.92 - Spousal Consent Or Waiver.
  If a member participating in a PERS defined contribution plan is married at the time benefits under the plan are to commence, unless the...
• Section 145.95 - Right To Payment Or Benefit Vested.
  (A) Subject to division (B) of this section and sections 145.38, 145.56, 145.57, 145.572, 145.573, and 145.574 of the Revised Code, the right of...
• Section 145.97 - Deposits Of Members.
  Each PERS defined contribution plan shall permit a member participating in the plan to do both of the following: (A) If the member has...
• Section 145.98 - Ceasing Contributions.
  Contributions under sections 145.85 and 145.86 of the Revised Code shall cease on the member's death or termination of employment or for any other...
• Section 145.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates division (A) of section 145.054 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars for each day...

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