Section 1780 - New York state employees' retirement system; rights and privileges of officers and employees transferred to the authority1.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.N.Y. Pub. Auth. Law § 1780