Terms Used In Ohio Code > Chapter 144 - Old Age and Survivors Insurance - Municipal Employees

• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Bond: includes an undertaking. See Ohio Code 1.02
• City: means any municipal corporation having its own retirement system and includes any municipal university belonging to the municipal corporation. See Ohio Code 144.01
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• County-related corporation: means a nonprofit corporation, without capital stock, organized and existing under Chapter 1702 of the Revised Code to carry on county-related recreational functions on property, the title of which rests in the name of the county, that would normally be carried on by commercial interests for profit, the receipts in excess of actual and necessary expenses of which are transferred to a board of county commissioners, and the assets of which, upon dissolution of the corporation, become the property of a board of county commissioners. See Ohio Code 144.01
• Employee: has the meaning prescribed in section 210 (k) of the "Social Security Act" and may include officers of a county-related corporation or city. See Ohio Code 144.01
• Employment: means any service performed by an employee in the employ of a county-related corporation or city, except service which, in the absence of an agreement entered into under this chapter, would constitute "employment" as defined in the "Social Security Act" or service which under the "Social Security Act" may not be included in an agreement between the state and the secretary of health and human services. See Ohio Code 144.01
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Property: means real and personal property. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Secretary of health and human services: includes any individual to whom the secretary delegates any of his functions under the "Social Security Act" with respect to coverage under such act of employees of states and their subordinate units of government. See Ohio Code 144.01
• state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
• State agency: means that agency which the governor designates to carry out this chapter. See Ohio Code 144.01
• United States: includes all the states. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Wages: means all remuneration for employment as defined in this section, including the cash value of all remuneration paid in any medium other than cash, but does not include that part of such remuneration which, even if it were for "employment" within the meaning of the "Federal Insurance Contributions Act" would not constitute "wages" within the meaning of that act. See Ohio Code 144.01