Ohio · statute · Ohio Rev. Code ch. 143 · 12 active provisions
As used in this chapter:(A) "Killed in the line of duty" means either of the following:(1) Death in the line of duty;(2) Death from injury sustained in the line of duty, including heart attack or other fatal injury or illness caused while in the line of duty.(B) "Totally and permanently disabled" means unable to engage…
(A) There is hereby established the volunteer peace officers dependents fund.Each county, municipal corporation, township, township police district, and joint police district with a police or sheriff's department that employs volunteer peace officers is a member of the volunteer peace officers' dependents fund and shal…
A volunteer peace officers' dependents fund board shall meet promptly after election of the board's members and organize. The board shall select from among its members a chairperson and a secretary.The secretary of the board shall keep a complete record of the board's proceedings, which shall be maintained as a permane…
Each volunteer peace officers' dependents fund board may adopt rules as necessary for handling and processing claims for benefits.The board shall perform such other duties as are necessary to implement this chapter.
The prosecuting attorney of the county in which a fund member is located shall serve as the legal advisor for the volunteer peace officer's dependents' board.
(A) The volunteer peace officers' dependents fund shall be maintained in the state treasury. All investment earnings of the fund shall be collected by the treasurer of state and placed to the credit of the fund.(B) Each fund member shall pay to the treasurer of state, to the credit of the fund, an initial premium as fo…
The total of all initial premiums collected by the treasurer of state under section 143.06 of the Revised Code is the basic capital account of the volunteer peace officers' dependents fund. No further contributions are required of fund members until claims against the fund have reduced it to ninety-five per cent or les…
(A) If a premium is not paid as provided in section 143.06 of the Revised Code, the director of commerce shall certify the failure as an assessment against the fund member to the auditor of the county within which the member is located. The county auditor shall withhold the amount of the assessment, together with inter…
(A) A volunteer peace officer who, on or after December 22, 2015, is totally and permanently disabled as a result of discharging the duties of a volunteer peace officer shall receive a benefit from the volunteer peace officers' dependents fund of three hundred dollars per month, except that no payment shall be made to…
(A) The director of commerce shall determine whether initial premiums paid by fund members under section 143.06 of the Revised Code are sufficient for death benefits to be paid from the volunteer peace officers' dependents fund to the individuals described in division (B)(1)(b) of section 143.09 of the Revised Code. (B…
(A)(1) Not later than five days after receipt of a claim for benefits, a volunteer peace officers' dependents fund board shall meet and determine the validity of the claim. If the board determines that the claim is valid, it shall make a determination of the amount due and certify its determination to the director of c…
The right of an individual to a benefit under this chapter shall not be subject to execution, garnishment, attachment, the operation of bankruptcy or insolvency laws, or other process of law whatsoever, and shall be unassignable except as specifically provided in this chapter and sections 3105.171, 3105.65, and 3115.32…