NRS1A.440. Determination of monthly allowance for service retirement. [Effective January 1, 2015, if the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014 General Election.]

  Except as otherwise required as a result of NRS 1A.400 or 1A.410:

      1.  Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, a monthly service retirement allowance must be determined by multiplying a member of the Judicial Retirement Plan’s average compensation by 3.4091 percent for each year of service, except that a member of the Plan is entitled to a benefit of not more than 75 percent of the member’s average compensation.

      2.  For the purposes of this section, “average compensation” means the average of a member of the Plan’s 36 consecutive months of highest compensation as certified by the Court Administrator if the member is a justice of the Supreme Court, a judge of the Court of Appeals or a district judge, by the county if the member is a justice of the peace or by the city if the member is a municipal judge.

      (Added to NRS by 2001 Special Session, 78; A 2003, 2072; 2005, 997; 2013, 1723, effective January 1, 2015, if the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014 General Election)