OHIO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM ... - OPERS

or beneficiaries. The costs of compiling, copying, and mailing the list shall be paid by such
person.
(4) Within fourteen days after receiving from the director of human services a list of the
names and social security numbers of recipients of public assistance pursuant to section
5101.181 of the Revised Code, the board shall inform the auditor of state of the name, current or
most recent employer address, and social security number of each member whose name and
social security number are the same as that of a person whose name or social security number
was submitted by the director. The board and its employees shall, except for purposes of
furnishing the auditor of state with information required by this section, preserve the
confidentiality of recipients of public assistance in compliance with division (A) of section
5101.181 of the Revised Code.
(5) The System shall comply with orders issued under section 3105.87 of the Revised
Code.
On the written request of an alternate payee, as defined in section 3105.80 of the Revised
Code, the system shall furnish to the alternate payee information on the amount and status of any
amounts payable to the alternate payee under an order issued under 3105.171 or 3105.65 of the
Revised Code.
(6) At the request of any person, the board shall make available to the person copies of all
documents, including resumes, in the board's possession regarding filling a vacancy of an
employee member or retirant member of the board. The person who made the request shall pay
the cost of compiling, copying, and mailing the documents. The information described in
division (D)(6) of this section is a public record.
(E) A statement that contains information obtained from the system's records that is
signed by the executive director or an officer of the system and to which the system's official seal
is affixed, or copies of the system's records to which the signature and seal are attached, shall be
received as true copies of the system's records in any court or before any officer of this state.
(HB 225, Eff. 11/13/65; HB 268, Eff. 8/20/76; HB 363, Eff. 6/7/79; HB 246, Eff. 8/23/82; HB 242, Eff. 1/1/87; HB
382, Eff. 6/30/91; SB 346, Eff. 7/29/92; SB 359, Eff. 12/22/92; HB 627, Eff. 12/2/96; HB 668, Eff. 12/6/96; HB 471,
Eff. 7/1/00; HB 628, Eff. 9/21/00; SB 180, Eff. 3/22/01; HB 535, Eff. 1/1/02; SB 247, Eff. 10/1/02; SB133, Eff.
9/15/04; SB 3, Eff. 5/13/08)
Sec. 145.28 Purchase of service credit for period of exemption
(A)(1) Except as provided in division (A)(2) of this section, a member of the public
employees retirement system with at least eighteen months of contributing service in the system,
the state teachers retirement system, or the school employees retirement system who exempted
self from membership in one or more of the systems pursuant to section 145.03 or 3309.23 of the
Revised Code, or former section 3307.25 or 3309.25 of the Revised Code, or was exempt under
section 3307.24 of the Revised Code, may purchase credit for each year or portion of a year of
service for which the member was exempted.
(2) A member may not purchase credit under this section for exempted service if the
service was exempted from contribution under section 145.03 of the Revised Code and 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.
(B) For each year or portion of a year of credit purchased under this section, a member
shall pay to the retirement system an amount determined by multiplying the member's earnable
salary for the twelve months of contributing service preceding the month in which the member
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