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Title 1, Title 1. State Government

66 chapters · 2,424 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 12,424 Ch 122, Chapter 122 | Department of Development226 Ch 145, Chapter 145 | Public Employees Retir…182 Ch 109, Chapter 109 | Attorney General149 Ch 124, Chapter 124 | Department of Administ…129 Ch 121, Chapter 121 | State Departments97 Ch 101, Chapter 101 | General Assembly92 Ch 125, Chapter 125 | Department of Administ…85 Ch 153, Chapter 153 | Public Improvements85 Ch 135, Chapter 135 | Uniform Depository Act80 Ch 173, Chapter 173 | Department of Aging77 Ch 117, Chapter 117 | Auditor of State70 Ch 149, Chapter 149 | Documents, Reports, an…64 Ch 133, Chapter 133 | Uniform Public Securit…59 Ch 128, Chapter 128 | 9-1-1 Emergency Teleph…54

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Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.14 Percentage of funds available for annuities and other payments - deposit
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For the purpose of meeting disbursements for annuities and other payments in excess of the receipts, there shall be kept available by the treasurer of state an amount not exceeding ten per cent of the total amount in the funds provided for by this chapter on deposit in any bank o…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.15 Employee information provided by each department
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The head of each department shall submit to the public employees retirement board a statement showing the name, sex, title, earnable salary, duties, date of birth, and length of service as a public employee of every public employee in his department.
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.16 Statement to be filed by employee member
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Each public employee shall file a detailed statement of all his previous service as a public employee and shall furnish such other information as the public employees retirement board requires for the proper operation of the system.The employee shall file the statement within thi…
Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.17 Department monthly statement
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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…

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Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.171 Information to new employees

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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 Ann. § 145.18 Records kept by department heads

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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 Ann. § 145.19 Electing defined benefit or defined contribution plan

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(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 begin…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.191 Employee with less than 5 years of service electing to participate in defined contribution plan

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(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 emp…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.192 Effect of electing defined contribution plan

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Except as provided in section 145.195, 145.814, or in division (C) of section 145.82 of the Revised Code, a member of the public employees retirement system who elects to participate in a PERS defined contribution plan shall be ineligible for any benefit or payment under the PERS…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.193 Election after reemployment

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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 …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.194 Contributions by law enforcement or public safety officers to defined contribution plan

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(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 safet…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.195 Participants in both defined benefit and defined contribution plans

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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 det…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.196 Consolidation of combined plan with defined benefit plan

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(A) As used in this section: (1) "Individual account" means the account maintained for a member of the PERS combined plan in the defined contribution fund created in section 145.23 of the Revised Code, in which the member's contributions under section 145.85 of the Revised Code a…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.20 Elective officials may become members of system - credit for prior service

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(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 …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.201 Additional service credit purchased by elected or appointed officials

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(A) Subject to the limit described in division (C) of this section, any member who is or has been an elected official of the state or any political subdivision thereof or has been appointed either by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate or directly by the speake…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.21 Individual accounts for each member - mortality tables

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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 necess…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.22 Actuarial valuation of pension assets, liabilities, and funding requirements

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

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.221 Amortizing unfunded actuarial accrued pension liability

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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 l…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.222 Study to determine percentage of employee's compensation to be contributed by public institution of higher education

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

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.23 Creation of funds

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The funds hereby created are the employees' savings fund, the employers' accumulation fund, the annuity and pension reserve fund, the income fund, the survivors' benefit fund, the defined contribution fund, and the expense fund. (A) The employees' savings fund is the fund in whic…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.24 Inequality of contributions by employer

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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 con…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.25 Each fund is separate legal entity

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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 se…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.26 Treasurer of state custodian of funds

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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 th…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.27 Annual statement of funds

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

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.28 Purchase of service credit for period of self-exemption

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(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…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.29 Procedure for purchasing credit

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(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 t…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.291 Purchasing service credit for time spent on pregnancy or adoption

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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 o…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.2910 Transferring service credit and contributions between PERS and Cincinnati retirement system

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(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 Uni…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.2911 Eligibility for credit for service in Cincinnati retirement system

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(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 system who is not receiving a pension or benefit from the public employees retirement system is eligible to obtain credit for service as a …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.2912 Transferring contributions to Cincinnati retirement system

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(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 or former member of the public employees retirement system but not a current contributor and who is not receiving a pension or benefit from the public empl…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.2913 Transferred service credit from uniform retirement system

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(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 of the Revised Code prior to the date a member commenced the employment covered by the public employees retir…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.2914 Non-law enforcement service as law enforcement service

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(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 service credit earned under section 145.33 of the Revised Code or division (A)(2), (B)(1)(b), or (C)(2) of section 145.332 of the Rev…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.2915 Credit for work missed while receiving workers' compensation

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(A) As used in this section, "workers' compensation" means benefits paid under Chapter 4121. or 4123. of the Revised Code.(B) A member of the public employees retirement system may purchase service credit under this section for any period during which the member was out of servic…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.2916 Credit for salary increases for elected officials

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(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 constitutio…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.292 Credit for prior service

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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 servic…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.293 Credit for prior service - comparable public position

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(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 retireme…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.294 Payroll deduction plans

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(A)(1) The public employees retirement board may establish by rule a payroll deduction plan for payment of the cost of restoring service credit under section 145.31 or 145.311 of the Revised Code or purchasing any service credit members of the public employees retirement system a…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.295 Credit for service in uniform retirement system

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(A) As used in this section and section 145.2913 of the Revised Code:(1) "Uniform retirement system" or "uniform system" means the Ohio police and fire pension fund or state highway patrol retirement system.(2) "Military service credit" means credit purchased or obtained under th…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.296 Contributions during disability leave

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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 ma…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.297 Retirement incentive plan

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(A) As used in this section, "employing unit" means: (1) A municipal corporation, agency of a municipal corporation designated by the legislative authority, park district, conservancy district, sanitary district, health district, township, department of a township designated by t…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.298 Retirement incentive plan - closing of or layoff at state institution

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(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 Code, except that it does not mean an employing unit with fifty or fewer employees. (2) "State institution" means a state correctional fa…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.299 Purchasing credit for service as school board member

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(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 em…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.30 Credit for military service

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(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: (i) Army, navy, air force, marine corps, space force, coast guard, auxiliary corps as established by congress, red cross nurse serving with the …

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.301 Purchasing military service credit

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(A) As used in this section: (1) "Prisoner of war" means any regularly appointed, enrolled, enlisted, or inducted member of the armed forces of the United States, reserves, or Ohio national guard who was captured, separated, and incarcerated by an enemy of the United States.(2) "…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.302 Purchasing uniformed services credit

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(A) As used in this section: (1) "Service in the uniformed services" means the performance of duty on a voluntary or involuntary basis in a uniformed service under competent authority and includes active duty, active duty for training, initial active duty for training, inactive d…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.31 Restoring service credit

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(A)(1) Except as provided in this section, a member or former member of the public employees retirement system with at least eighteen months of contributing service credit in this system, the state teachers retirement system, the school employees retirement system, the Ohio polic…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.311 Payroll deduction plans - restoring SERS or STERS credit

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(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 sy…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.312 Proceedings on request for restoration of service credit

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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:(…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.32 Age and service retirement

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Eligibility of members of the public employees retirement system, including for members described in section 145.196 of the Revised Code and other than those subject to section 145.332 of the Revised Code, for age and service retirement shall be determined under this section. (A)…

Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 145.323 Cost of living increase

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(A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the public employees retirement board shall annually increase each allowance, pension, or benefit payable under this chapter. Until the last day of December of the fifth full calendar year after the effective date of this amendmen…