Transfers are hereby authorized between the Employees' Retirement System of the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans and the Employees' Retirement System of the city of New Orleans. Upon authorization by the board of trustees of both systems, transfer may be made from one system to the other whereby all the employee contributions and the reserves necessary to provide the benefits earned in the transferring system may be transferred to the other system, and upon such transfer the transferring employee shall be given credit in the new system for all years of creditable service he may have earned in the system from which he was transferred.
La. Consolidated Public Retirement § 11:3822