Section 1147-H. 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  municipality served by the authority, may, at the
  request of the authority and with the consent  of  the  chief  executive
  officer  of  such municipality 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.