The provisions of this article shall become applicable upon the execution of an agreement between a county superintendent of schools and a community college district governing board providing for the assumption by the county superintendent of schools of a data processing center operated by the community college district.

A community college district classified employee assigned to a data processing center which is transferred to a county superintendent of schools shall, upon the election of the employee to do so, cease to be an employee of the community college district upon the effective date of the agreement transferring the data processing center to the county superintendent of schools and shall thereafter be an employee of the county superintendent of schools and be paid from the county school service fund.

District employees whose status is changed pursuant to this article shall retain all accumulated and unused sick leave, vacation, seniority rights and other rights and benefits which can reasonably be construed to have been an earned right at the time of transfer to the county school service fund.

No employee transferred from community college district service pursuant to this article to a position, the salary of which is paid from the county school service fund, shall suffer any loss of salary at the time of transfer, or as to the future as it relates to his or her status on the salary scale of the county superintendent of schools in effect at that time.