(a) Effective as of 12:01 a.m., January 1, 1984, and subject to subsection (c) hereof, the full amount of the statutorily required contribution to the Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio or the Police and Fire Pension System of Ohio shall be withheld from the gross pay of each person within any of the classes established in subsection (b) hereof and shall be "picked up" (assumed and paid to such Retirement System or Pension System) by the City. This "pick up" by the City is, and shall be designated as, public employee contributions and shall be in lieu of contributions to the Retirement System of Ohio or the Pension System of Ohio by each person within any of the classes established in subsection (b) hereof. No person subject to this "pick up" shall have the option of choosing to receive the statutorily required contribution to the Retirement System or the Pension System directly instead of having it "picked up" by the City or of being excluded from the "pick up."
The City shall, in reporting and making remittance to the Retirement System of Ohio or the Pension System, report that the public employee's contribution for each person subject to this "pick up" has been made as provided by statute.
(b) The "pick up" by the City shall apply to all full-time employees of the City who are contributing members of the Retirement System or the Pension System. For purposes of this section, "full-time employee" means a person who performs work for the City in accordance with an established scheduled working time, such schedule to be based upon not less than five calendar days for fifty-two weeks per year, plus all elected and appointed officials who are on the City payroll twelve months per year. "Full-time employee" shall not include:
(1) A student whose employment does not exceed 1,500 hours in any calendar year;
(2) Any new employee not a member of the Retirement System or the Pension System at the time of his or her employment, whose employment does not exceed twenty hours per week; or
(3) A temporary or emergency employee whose employment does not exceed three calendar months.
(c) If any person within any of the classes established in subsection (b) hereof is subject to a "pick up" by the City of his or her statutorily required contribution to the Retirement System or the Pension System, other than as provided by this section, the "pick up" provided for in subsection (a) hereof shall apply only to an amount equal to the difference between the full amount of that person's statutorily required contribution to such Retirement System or such Pension System and the amount which is "picked up" by the City other than as provided by this section.
(d) The gross wage or salary of any person subject to the "pick up" provided for by this section shall not change as a result of this "pick up."
(e) The City Auditor is hereby directed to implement the provisions of this section to effect the "pick up" of the statutorily required contributions to the Retirement System or the Pension System for those persons within the classes established in subsection (b) hereof so as to enable them to obtain the resulting Federal and State tax deferments and other benefits.
(Ord. 89-6. Passed 1-3-89.)