(a) Effective January 1, 1984, the full amount of the statutorily required contributions to the Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio and the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund 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 the Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio and the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund) by the City of Miamisburg. This pick-up by the City is, and shall be designated as, public employee contributions and shall be in lieu of contributions to the Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio and the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund 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 Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio and the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund directly instead of having it “picked up” by the City or being excluded from the pick-up.
The City shall, in reporting and making remittance to the Public Employees Retirement of Ohio and the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund, 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 as provided by this section shall apply to all persons in the following classes:
(1) The Mayor.
(2) City Council.
(3) Municipal Court Judges and appointees of the Court.
(4) The Clerk of Court and Deputy Clerks.
(5) All employees of the City who are contributing members or who elect to be contributing members of the Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio and the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund. For the purpose of this paragraph, an employee shall not include:
A. A student whose employment will not exceed 1,500 hours in any calendar year; or
B. Any new employee who is not a member of the Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio or the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund at the time of his or her employment, whose employment will not exceed twenty hours per week; or
C. A temporary employee whose employment will not exceed three calendar months.
(c) The gross wage or salary of any person subject to the pick-up provided by this section shall not change as a result of this pick-up.
(d) The Finance Director is hereby authorized and directed to implement the provisions of this section to effect the pick-up of the statutorily required contributions to the Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio and the Police and Firemen's Disability and Pension Fund 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. 3529. Passed 6-12-84; Ord. 6422. Passed 9-17-13.)