N.Y. Transportation Law § 248: Pending actions and proceedings

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

pending on March first, nineteen hundred seventy-one brought by or

against the public service commission or the department of public

service, and pertaining to or connected with the functions, powers,

obligations and duties transferred pursuant to this article, shall be

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

the name of the department or the commissioner. In all such actions and

proceedings, the department or the commissioner, upon application to the

court, shall be substituted as a party.