Ohio Code 145.018 – Conditions for full year of credit
Notwithstanding section 145.016 of the Revised Code, the public employees retirement board shall grant a full year of service credit to a member of the retirement system if all of the following conditions are met:
Terms Used In Ohio Code 145.018
- Earnable salary: includes the following:
(a) Payments made by the employer in lieu of salary, wages, or other earnings for sick leave, personal leave, or vacation used by the contributor;
(b) Payments made by the employer for the conversion of sick leave, personal leave, and vacation leave accrued, but not used if the payment is made during the year in which the leave is accrued, except that payments made pursuant to section 124. See Ohio Code 145.01
- Member: includes a PERS retirant who becomes a member under division (C) of section 145. See Ohio Code 145.01
- public employer: means the state or any county, township, municipal corporation, park district, conservancy district, sanitary district, health district, metropolitan housing authority, state retirement board, Ohio history connection, public library, county law library, union cemetery, joint hospital, institutional commissary, state medical university, state university, or board, bureau, commission, council, committee, authority, or administrative body as the same are, or have been, created by action of the general assembly or by the legislative authority of any of the units of local government named in this division not covered by section 742. See Ohio Code 145.01
(A) The member is employed by a county board of developmental disabilities.
(B) The member’s employment is in a position that would be covered by Chapter 3309 of the Revised Code if the member was employed by a public employer as defined in section 3309.01 of the Revised Code.
(C) The member performs full-time services in the position for at least nine months of the year and is paid earnable salary in each month of that year.