Section 1226-K. Transfer of officers and employees

1. In accordance with
  the provisions of section seventy of the civil service law, any  officer
  or  employee  of  the  board of water supply, may, at the request of the
  authority and with the consent of such  board,  be  transferred  to  the
  authority  and  shall  be  eligible  for  such transfer and appointment,
  without  further  examination,  to  applicable  offices,  positions  and
  employment  under  the  authority.  Any  such  officers  or employees so
  transferred to the authority pursuant to this section, who  are  members
  of  or  benefit under any existing pension or retirement fund or system,
  shall continue to have all rights, privileges,  obligations  and  status
  with  respect  to  such fund or system as are now prescribed by law, but
  during  the  period  of  their  employment   by   the   authority,   all
  contributions  to  such  funds  or systems to be paid by the employer on
  account of such officers or employees shall be paid by the authority.
    2.  A  transferred  employee  shall  remain  in  the  same  collective
  bargaining  unit as was the case prior to his or her transfer; successor
  employees to the positions held by  such  transferred  employees  shall,
  consistent  with the provisions of article fourteen of the civil service
  law, be included in the  same  unit  as  their  predecessors.  Employees
  serving  in  positions  in newly created titles shall be assigned to the
  same collective bargaining unit as they would have been assigned to such
  unit were  such  titles  created  prior  to  the  establishment  of  the
  authority.  Nothing  contained  in  this title shall be construed (a) to
  diminish the rights of employees pursuant  to  a  collective  bargaining
  agreement  or  (b) to affect existing law with respect to an application
  to the public employment relations board seeking a  designation  by  the
  board that certain persons are managerial or confidential.