§ 355. Officers and employees; transfer, promotion and seniority. 1.
Officers and employees of state departments, agencies, or divisions may
be transferred to the authority and officers, agents and employees of
the authority may be transferred to state departments, agencies, or
divisions, without examination and without loss of any civil service
status or rights. No such transfer from the authority to any state
department, agency, or division may, however, be made except with the
approval of the head of the state department, agency, or division
involved and the director of the budget 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 employees of the authority and employees of the state are
eligible to participate.

3. In computing seniority for purposes of promotion or for 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.