OHIO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM ... - OPERS

savings fund and the employers' accumulation fund for service credit under division (A) or (B) of
this section shall be considered as accumulated contributions of the member.
(SB 386, Eff. 9/16/57; SB 160, Eff. 8/1/59; HB 776, Eff. 11/5/65; SB 389, Eff. 11/21/69; HB 1, Eff. 3/26/71; HB 268,
Eff. 8/20/76; HB 548, Eff. 10/8/82; HB 502, Eff. 4/24/86; HB 552, Eff. 12/15/88; HB 382, Eff. 6/30/91; HB 222, Eff.
11/2/99)
Sec. 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 145.01 of the Revised Code.
Except as provided in division (B) of this section, membership in the system is compulsory upon
being employed and shall continue as long as public employment continues.
(B) A student who is not a member at the time of his employment with the school, college,
or university in which he is enrolled and regularly attending classes may elect to be exempted from
compulsory membership and a student who is a member may elect to have his employment with
the school, college, or university in which he is enrolled and regularly attending classes exempted
from contribution to the retirement system. An election to be exempted from membership or
contribution shall be made by signing a written application for exemption within the first month
after being employed and filing the application with the public employees retirement board. All
applications, when approved by the public employees retirement board and filed with the
employer, shall be irrevocable while the employee is continuously employed by the school,
college, or university and regularly attending classes.
(HB 551, Eff. 10/26/53; SB 386, Eff. 9/16/57; SB 160, Eff. 8/1/59; HB 430, Eff. 11/20/73; HB 268, Eff. 8/20/76; HB
382, Eff. 6/30/91; HB 123, Eff. 11/20/91; HB 383, Eff. 5/4/92; SB 351, Eff. 7/1/92)
Sec. 145.031 Municipal court employees transferred from Cincinnati to Hamilton
County; option to remain in city system and be exempt from PERS
(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 employ of the city of Cincinnati in the
Hamilton county municipal court and was appointed or employed by the court, the clerk of courts
or the Cincinnati city manager, and whose salary was paid by the city of Cincinnati and who was a
contributing member of the city of Cincinnati retirement system prior to that date, may choose to
be exempt from compulsory membership in the public employees retirement system and to
continue contributing membership in the city of Cincinnati retirement system on and after that
date, by filing a written request for exemption from the public employees
retirement system, which request shall bear the signature of the employee, with the public
employees retirement board, provided that exemptions permitted by this division are contingent
upon the following:
(1) The adoption of an agreement between the board of county commissioners of Hamilton
county and authorized representatives of the city of Cincinnati retirement system that provides
such employees with the option to continue contributing membership in that retirement system on
and after January 16, 1978, upon a compliance with the requirements of this section;
(2) The filing of the request for exemption within thirty days of the effective date of the
agreement.
(B) No employee contributions shall be deducted from the earnable salary or compensation
of, or paid to the public employees retirement system on account of, any employee of the Hamilton
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