Section 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.