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Ohio Rev. Code § 742.33 (2026)

Police officer employers' contribution

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Effective:
April 12, 2021
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 444 - 133rd General Assembly
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(A) Each employer shall pay monthly, on such dates as the board of trustees of the Ohio police and fire pension fund requires, from its general fund, or from a levy imposed pursuant to division (J), (W), or (JJ) of section 5705.19 of the Revised Code, to the fund an amount known as the "police officer employers' contribution," which shall be nineteen and one-half per cent of the salaries as defined in division (L) of section 742.01 of the Revised Code of the members of the police department of the employer.

(B) The taxing authority of each municipal corporation in which there was a police relief and pension fund on October 1, 1965, shall annually, in the manner provided for making other municipal levies and in addition to all other levies authorized by law, levy a tax of three-tenths of one mill upon all the real and personal property as listed for taxation in the municipal corporation for the purpose of paying the police officer employers' contribution and the municipal corporation's accrued liability for its former police relief and pension fund and interest thereon, and of defraying the current operating expenses of the municipal corporation. The annual revenues derived from the tax shall be used in the following order:

(1) First, to pay the current police officer employers' contribution and any interest related thereto;

(2) Second, to pay any accrued liability chargeable to the municipal corporation during the current calendar year for its former police relief and pension fund and any interest related thereto;

(3) Third, to defray the current operating expenses of the municipal corporation.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases, 1988–2002 · leading case: City of Rocky River v. State Emp. Relations Bd., 530 N.E.2d 1 (Ohio 1988).
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City of Rocky River v. State Emp. Relations Bd., 530 N.E.2d 1 (Ohio 1988). · cites it 3× “) R.C. 742.33 and 742.34 mandated that cities shall pay to the state fund an amount to be determined by the state board, and even that such payments shall be made from the municipality’s general fund.”
City of Rocky River v. State Emp. Relations Bd., 539 N.E.2d 103 (Ohio 1989). “) R.C. 742.33 and 742.34 mandated that cities shall pay to the state fund an amount to be determined by the state board, and even that such payments shall be made from the municipality’s general fund.”
Erb v. Erb, 661 N.E.2d 175 (Ohio 1996). “See R.C. 742.33 and 742.34. The employee draws pension benefits from the employer-employee contributions, as well as the investment returns realized from those contributions.”
Police & Firemen's Disability & Pension Fund v. City of Akron, 778 N.E.2d 68 (Ohio Ct. App. 2002). · cites it 2× “However, the Fund does not cite any subsection of Chapter 742 that creates an independent, statutory cause of action for breach of any of the duties imposed therein, nor ¿as our research uncovered any such provision.”
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