N.Y. Public Authorities Law § 1045-n: Transfer of officers and employees to and from city and state agencies; retirement rights of officers and employees

§ 1045-n. Transfer of officers and employees to and from city and

state agencies; retirement rights of officers and employees. Officers

and employees of city and state agencies may be transferred to the

authority or water board and officers and employees of the authority or

water board may be transferred to appropriate city and state agencies

without examination and without loss of any civil service or retirement

status or rights. Any officer or employee of the authority or water

board who heretofore acquired or shall hereafter acquire such position

status by transfer and who at the time of such transfer was a member of

the New York city employees' retirement system shall continue to be a

member of such system as long as he or she continues in such service,

and shall continue to have all the rights, privileges and obligations of

membership in such system. Employment by the authority or water board

shall constitute city-service for the purposes of chapter one of title

thirteen of the administrative code of the city of New York. Transfers

shall be in accordance with section seventy of the civil service law or

the rules of the civil service commission of the city, as the case may

be. No such transfer shall be made except with the approval of the head

of the agency involved, the director of the division of the budget or

the director of management and budget of the city, as the case may be,

and the chairman of the authority or water board, as applicable, and in

compliance with the rules and regulations of the civil service

commission of the city or the state, as the case may be.