N.Y. Rapid Transit Law § 107: Pending actions and proceedings

§ 107. Pending actions and proceedings. This chapter shall not affect

any action or proceeding, civil or criminal, brought by or against the

transit commission, or the former transit construction commissioner,

public service commission for the first district, or the board of rapid

transit railroad commissioners in respect of rights, powers, duties and

obligations transferred to and conferred upon the board of

transportation; but such action or proceeding may be prosecuted or

defended in the name of the board of transportation and, upon

application to the court, the board of transportation shall be

substituted as a party in such pending action or proceeding. Any

investigation, examination or hearing, undertaken, commenced or

instituted by the transit commission or the transit construction

commissioner or the public service commission for the first district or

the board of rapid transit railroad commissioners before the time this

article takes effect, and relating to a subject or matter jurisdiction

whereof was transferred to the board of transportation, may be conducted

to final determination by the board of transportation.