Title 22, Public officers and Employees

(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, payment of any pension, annuity, retirement allowance, disability benefit, death benefit, refund benefit or other benefit under any public employer retirement plan other than the Public Employees Retirement System that would otherwi…

As used in this section and ORS 237.620: (1) “Firefighter” means: (a) Persons employed by a city, county or district whose duties involve firefighting, but does not include volunteer firefighters; and (b) The State Fire Marshal and the chief deputy fire marshal and deputy state f…

(1) Except as provided in this section, all public employers of police officers or firefighters shall provide retirement benefits to those employees under the Public Employees Retirement System. (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, a public employer of police offic…

(1) Any public employer that provides retirement benefits to its police officers and firefighters other than by participation in the Public Employees Retirement System pursuant to the provisions of ORS 237.620 shall provide increases to the police officers and firefighters of the…

(1) Any public employer that provides retirement benefits to its police officers and firefighters other than by participation in the Public Employees Retirement System pursuant to the provisions of ORS 237.620 shall provide increases to the police officers and firefighters of the…

(1) A person who is appointed or elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly and who is not a member of the Public Employees Retirement System at the time of the appointment or election: (a) May not become a member of the Public Employees Retirement System for the purpose of …

(1) Except as provided in this section, a person who is appointed or elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly and who is a member of the Public Employees Retirement System at the time of the appointment or election may make a retirement plan election in the manner provided…

(1)(a) If a person appointed or elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly elects under ORS 237.645 or 237.650 to become a legislator member of the state deferred compensation plan for the purpose of service in the Legislative Assembly, the Legislative Assembly shall make em…

Notwithstanding the provisions of ORS chapters 238 and 238A, the Harney County Health District may offer to its employees, in addition to the Public Employees Retirement System, alternative retirement programs. [2019 c.496 §1] Note: 237.750 was enacted into law by the Legislative…

The Public Employees Retirement System of the State of Oregon, established by chapter 401, Oregon Laws 1945, as amended, hereby is abolished, subject to the provisions of ORS 237.950 to 237.980. [1953 c.180 §2]

(1) There hereby is established and created the Public Employees Retirement Board, which shall administer the provisions of ORS 237.414 and 237.950 to 237.980, shall have powers and duties herein provided, and shall be comprised of five persons appointed by the Governor. The term…

The board shall employ a director whose duties shall be as hereinafter provided. All ministerial duties required in the administration of ORS 237.414 and 237.950 to 237.980 shall be performed by the director and by employees under the direction of the director. The director shall…

(1) All assets of the previously existing Public Employees Retirement System, as of March 27, 1953, including moneys and securities, accounts receivable, office equipment and all personal property of any description, hereby are transferred to the Public Employees Retirement Board…

In order to liquidate accrued liabilities with respect to prior service credit and delinquent contributions, each public employer which at any time prior to March 27, 1953, has participated in the Public Employees Retirement System shall continue to remit payments to the Public E…

The board shall pay all retirement benefits to which members of the Public Employees Retirement System who retired prior to March 27, 1953, may be entitled under the provisions of chapter 401, Oregon Laws 1945, as amended, and shall give full recognition to all rights to which su…

Notwithstanding any other provision of chapter 180, Oregon Laws 1953, chapter 401, Oregon Laws 1945, as amended, shall remain in full force and effect with respect to any employee of a public employer which heretofore withdrew from the Public Employees Retirement System pursuant …

(1) From contributions of each employee and the matching contributions of the employer, respectively, due and paid to the Public Employees Retirement Fund for services performed after January 1, 1951, there shall be deducted as much thereof as necessary to constitute an amount eq…

During the entire period of liquidation of the Public Employees Retirement System, the right of a person to a pension, annuity or a retirement allowance, to the return of contributions upon separation from service with a public employer, the refund of contributions authorized by …

For purposes of this chapter: (1) “Active member” means a member who is presently employed by a participating public employer in a qualifying position and who has completed the six-month period of service required by ORS 238.015. (2) “Annuity” means payments for life derived from…

(1) For the purpose of computing salary under this chapter and ORS chapter 238A, salary includes retroactive payments of wages made to an employee to correct a clerical error. Retroactive payments described in this subsection shall be allocated to and deemed paid in the periods i…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or ORS chapter 238A, benefits received by a member under ORS 657.370 to 657.390 shall be treated as salary. [2023 c.404 §22] MEMBERSHIP (Membership Generally)

(1) No person may become a member of the system unless that person is in the service of a public employer and has completed six months’ service uninterrupted by more than 30 consecutive working days during the six months’ period. Every employee of a participating employer shall b…

Within the limits hereinafter specified regarding absence from service, no leave of absence, sabbatical leave, illness, accident or emergency preventing or interrupting service by an employee to an employer participating in the system shall be deemed to break the continuity of th…

(1) A public employer that is not participating in the system may, by application to the board, designate any class of employees of the public employer to become members of the system at the time of entering the system. (2) The board shall consider an application received under t…

Each circuit court judge who was a district court judge before January 15, 1998, and who is a member of the Public Employees Retirement System shall be governed by the provisions of this chapter applicable to other persons holding elective offices who may become members of the sy…

(1) On August 1, 1991, all judges receiving retirement pay from the Judges’ Retirement Fund and all surviving spouses of judges receiving a pension from the Judges’ Retirement Fund shall be retired members of the Public Employees Retirement System, except that: (a) The amount of …

Any deputy district attorney receiving any compensation from the state or from a county participating in the Public Employees Retirement System shall establish membership in the system after service for six months without having been absent 30 working days. Any contributions requ…

(1) Notwithstanding ORS 238.015, any person who is a member of the Legislative Assembly at any time on or after September 13, 1975, and before January 1, 1988, regardless of whether the person has reached the age of 65 years, may become a member of the Public Employees Retirement…

An employee shall not be considered to have ceased to be a member of the system under ORS 238.095 (2) by reason of any year in which the employee is employed by the Legislative Assembly or either house thereof, or by a committee of the Legislative Assembly or either house thereof…

For purposes of calculating hours of employment of an academic employee of a community college operated under ORS chapter 341 or a public university listed in ORS 352.002, each hour assigned to the academic employee as an hour of lecture time or as an hour of classroom time const…

(1)(a) A member who has been retired for service for more than six consecutive calendar months may be reemployed by a participating public employer in the manner provided by this subsection. (b) Any person reemployed as provided in this subsection shall resume making employee con…

(1) Subject to the limitations in this section, any public employer may employ any member who is retired for service if the administrative head of the public employer is satisfied that such employment is in the public interest. (2) Except as provided in this section, the period o…

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, a person who is elected to a full-time salaried office of the state or one of the participating political subdivisions thereof, or who is appointed to a full-time salaried office having a term fixed by statute or charter, …

(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter: (a) A retired member of the Public Employees Retirement System who has retired as other than a member of the Legislative Assembly and who is thereafter appointed or elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly may elect,…

(1) An employee shall cease to be a member of the Public Employees Retirement System if the employee withdraws the member account, if any, of the member in the manner provided by ORS 238.265. (2) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, an inactive member ceases to b…

(1) Whenever, within five years after the employee is separated from all service entitling the employee to membership in the Public Employees Retirement System, an employee who has withdrawn the amount credited to the member account of the member reenters the service of an employ…

(1)(a) A member of the Public Employees Retirement System who, after separation from all service entitling the employee to membership in the system and withdrawal of the amount credited to the member account of the member, reenters the service of an employer participating in the …

A member of the system who has a combined total of 10 years or more of creditable service in the system and prior service credit at the time of retirement, and who was required to complete one or more periods of six months or less in the service of an employer participating in th…

(1) A member of the system who has 10 years or more of creditable service in the system at the time of retirement, and who served for less than six months working full-time in a seasonal position with a public employer participating in the system before becoming a member of the s…

(1) A member of the system employed as a police officer or firefighter shall be entitled to receive retirement credit as provided in subsection (3) of this section if: (a) The member was employed by a public employer as a police officer or firefighter prior to becoming a member o…

(1) A member of the Public Employees Retirement System who is a police officer is entitled to receive retirement credit as provided in subsection (2) of this section if: (a) The member was employed as a public safety officer by another state, or political subdivision of another s…

(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, but subject to subsection (4) of this section, an employee who leaves a qualifying position for the purpose of performing service in the uniformed services is entitled to receive contributions, benefits and service credit f…

(1) As used in this section, “uniformed services” has the meaning given that term in ORS 238.156. (2) Any person who entered or reentered active service in the uniformed services after January 1, 1950, or who was in active service in the uniformed services on January 1, 1950, and…

Any employee of an employer participating in the system shall receive retirement credit, subject to the limitations of this chapter, for the period of employment with the participating employer prior to July 1, 1946, and for employment in any branch or department of the United St…

(1) A member of the Public Employees Retirement System who is a teacher as described in subsection (3) of this section is entitled to receive retirement credit as provided in subsection (2) of this section if: (a) The member was employed as a teacher in a public school in another…

(1) As used in this section, “legislative employee” means any person employed by the Legislative Assembly, either of its houses or any of its committees prior or subsequent to July 22, 1973, during any period or periods of such employment qualifying the person for membership and …

(1) A member of the Public Employees Retirement System who receives a disability retirement allowance or disability payments under ORS chapter 656 shall receive retirement credit for the period during which the member receives the disability retirement allowance or disability pay…

(1)(a) An active member of the Public Employees Retirement System shall contribute to the Public Employees Retirement Fund and there shall be withheld from salary of the member six percent of that salary as an employee contribution. (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this subse…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, and subject to the provisions of this section, a public employer participating in the system may agree, by a written employment policy or agreement in effect on or after July 1, 1979, to “pick-up,” assume or pay the full amount…

The state shall “pick-up,” assume or pay the full amount of contributions to the fund required of circuit court judges who were district court judges before January 15, 1998, and who are members of the system, but not judge members under ORS 238.500 to 238.585. The full amount of…