N.Y. Education Law § 6225: Pending actions and proceedings

§ 6225. Pending actions and proceedings. No action or proceeding

based upon a cause of action which arose prior to the effective date of

this article or, with respect to Medgar Evers college, prior to July

first, nineteen hundred ninety-four, brought by or against the city of

New York, the city university of New York or its board of trustees, or

the city university construction fund shall be affected by any provision

of this article, but the same may be prosecuted or defended by the

corporation counsel of the city of New York in the name of the body

corporate of the city university of New York created by this article in

the same court in which the action is pending. In all such actions and

proceedings such body corporate, upon application to the court, shall be

substituted as a party. Judgments or awards in any such action or

proceeding shall be paid by the city of New York in the same manner as

prior to the effective date of this article, provided, however, the

state shall reimburse the city to the extent required by law in effect

at the time the cause of action arose.