Ohio Code 3307.561 – Payments to members who are members of another state retirement system
(A) As used in this section, “other retirement system” means the public employees retirement system or the school employees retirement system.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 3307.561
- Employer: means the board of education, school district, governing authority of any community school established under Chapter 3314 of the Revised Code, a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics school established under Chapter 3326 of the Revised Code, college, university, institution, or other agency within the state by which a teacher is employed and paid. See Ohio Code 3307.01
- Member: means any person included in the membership of the state teachers retirement system, which shall consist of all teachers and contributors as defined in divisions (B) and (D) of this section and all disability benefit recipients, as defined in section 3307. See Ohio Code 3307.01
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Teacher: means all of the following:
(a) Any person paid from public funds and employed in the public schools of the state under any type of contract described in section 3311. See Ohio Code 3307.01
(B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, on application, a member of the state teachers retirement system who is also a member of one or both of the other retirement systems and has ceased to be a teacher for purposes of this chapter may be paid, in accordance with section 3307.56 of the Revised Code, the member’s accumulated contributions to the state teachers retirement system, plus any applicable amount calculated under section 3307.563 of the Revised Code. This payment does not affect the member’s membership in the other retirement systems or any right the member may have to a benefit or return of contributions under those systems.
(C) This section does not apply to a member of one of the other retirement systems whose employment under that system is with the public employer that was the employer under the state teachers retirement system at the time the member’s service subject to this chapter terminated.