Section 29 - Assistance by state officers, departments, boards and commissions(1) The department of audit and control, department of law, and all other state agencies may render such services to the corporation within their respective functions as may be requested by the corporation.(2) Upon request of the corporation, any state agency is hereby authorized and empowered to transfer to the corporation such officers and employees as it may deem necessary from time to time to assist the corporation in carrying out its functions and duties under this act. Officers and employees so transferred shall not lose their civil service status or rights.(3) In order most effectively to carry out its corporate purposes, the corporation shall assist and cooperate with the corporation for urban development and research of New York, created by the New York state urban development and research act.N.Y. Urban Development Corporation Act § 29