1. In determining the salary of a licensed administrator, other than the superintendent of schools, who is employed by a school district after the administrator has been employed by another school district in this State, the present employer shall, except as otherwise provided in subsection 2:

(a) Give the administrator the same credit for previous administrative service as the administrator was receiving from the administrator’s former employer, at the end of his or her former employment;

(b) Give the administrator credit for the administrator’s final year of service with his or her former employer, if credit for that service is not otherwise included in the credit given pursuant to paragraph (a); and

(c) Place the administrator on the schedule of salaries of the school district in a classification that is comparable to the classification the administrator had attained on the schedule of salaries of the administrator’s former employer.

2. This section does not:

(a) Require a school district to allow an administrator more credit for previous administrative service than the maximum credit for administrative experience provided for in the schedule of salaries established by it for its licensed personnel.

(b) Permit a school district to deny an administrator credit for his or her previous administrative service on the ground that the service differs in kind from the administrative experience for which credit is otherwise given by the school district.

3. As used in this section, “previous administrative service” means the total of:

(a) Any period of administrative service for which an administrator received credit from the administrator’s former employer at the beginning of his or her former employment; and

(b) The administrator’s period of administrative service in his or her former employment.

[338:32:1956] — (NRS A 1969, 1178; 1971, 75; 1979, 307, 1605; 1991, 817; 1993, 426; 1999, 1037, 1559; 2001, 1904; 2001 Special Session, 182; 2005, 2446; 2007, 2385; 2015, 2314) — (Substituted in revision for part of NRS 391.160)