(a) All employees, agents or officers of any state agency, department or commission, the functions of which are transferred to the state Fire Commission by the provisions of this article, and whose employment is covered and protected by the provisions of article six, chapter twenty-nine of this code and the rules and regulations promulgated by the civil service commission, and whose service is classified by such provisions, rules and regulations, shall continue in their employment in all respects and in the same classification, coverage and protection upon the transfer of such functions from the agency, department or commission by which they were employed to the state Fire Commission.
(b) All rules and regulations promulgated and all orders in effect and all proceedings pending on the effective date of this chapter, which were promulgated or effected or brought under any authority transferred to the state Fire Commission herein created and, as herein provided, shall remain in full effect unless otherwise provided in this article or until amended, revoked, suspended, modified, repealed or superseded, as the case may be.