Section 1780. New York state employees' retirement system; rights and privileges of officers and employees transferred to the authority

1.  The  authority shall be a "participating employer" in the New York state
  employees' retirement system and  all  officers  and  employees  of  the
  authority shall be eligible to participate in the said retirement system
  as  if  the  authority  had  become a participating employer pursuant to
  section thirty-one of the retirement and social security law.
    2. Officers and employees of any  participating  municipality  may  be
  employed  by  or transferred to the authority and when so transferred or
  employed shall continue to have the rights, privileges, obligations  and
  status  as  if  they had continued in their former municipal affairs and
  employments.
    3. Upon the transfer of the present Salamanca district hospital to the
  authority, all officers and employees  having  a  civil  service  status
  under  the  civil  service  law  of  the  state  of  New  York, shall be
  automatically transferred to and shall become officers and employees  of
  the   authority   and   shall   retain   their   former   civil  service
  classifications and rights, except as  specifically  excepted  by  other
  provisions of this act.