§ 1857. Officers and employees; transfer, promotion and seniority. 1.
Officers and employees of state departments and agencies may be
transferred to the authority and officers and employees of the authority
may be transferred to state departments and agencies without examination
and without loss of any civil service status or rights. No such transfer
may, however, be made except with the approval of the head of the state
department or division involved and the director of the budget and the
chairman of the authority and in compliance with the rules and
regulations of the state civil service commission.

2. Promotions from positions in state departments and agencies to
positions in the authority, and vice versa, may be made from
interdepartmental promotion lists resulting from promotion examinations
in which both employees of the authority and employees of the state are
eligible to participate.

3. In computing seniority for purposes of promotion or for the
purposes of suspension or demotion upon the abolition of positions in
the service of the authority or in the service of the state, in the case
of an employee of the authority a period of prior employment in the
service of the state shall be counted in the same manner as though such
period of employment had been in the service of the authority, and in
the case of an employee of the state a period of prior employment in the
service of the authority shall be counted in the same manner as though
such period of employment had been in the service of the state. For the
purposes of the establishment and certification of preferred lists,
employees suspended from the authority shall be eligible for
reinstatement in the service of the state, and employees suspended from
the service of the state shall be eligible for reinstatement in the
service of the authority, in the same manner as though the authority
were a department of the state.