Section 3955. Assistance to the authority; employees of the authority

1.
  With the consent of  any  public  corporation,  the  authority  may  use
  agents,   employees  and  facilities  thereof,  paying  to  such  public
  corporation its agreed proportion of the compensation or costs.
    2.  Officers  and  employees  of  state  or  county  agencies  may  be
  transferred to the authority without examination and without loss of any
  civil service or retirement status or rights. Any officer or employee of
  the  authority  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  state and local 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.