Section 1199-GG. Transfer of officers and employees

Any public officer or
  employee  under civil service who is selected by the authority may, with
  the consent of the commission,  board,  department  or  municipality  by
  which  he  or she has been employed, be transferred to the authority and
  shall be eligible for such transfer and appointment without  examination
  to comparable offices, positions and employment under the authority. The
  salary  or compensation of any such officer or employee shall after such
  transfer be paid by the authority. Any such  officers  or  employees  so
  transferred  to  the  authority,  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of this
  section, who are members of or beneficiaries 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 any such fund  or  system  to  be
  paid by the employer on account of such officers and employees, shall be
  paid by the authority. All such officers and employees so transferred to
  the  authority  who have been appointed to positions under the rules and
  classifications of the civil service  commission  shall  have  the  same
  status  with respect thereto after transfer to the authority as they had
  under their original appointments. The appointment and promotion of  all
  employees  of  the  authority  shall  be  made  in  accordance  with the
  provisions of the civil service law and such rules as the civil  service
  commission may adopt and make applicable to the authority.
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