13:1D-16 - Actions and proceedings

13:1D-16.  Actions and proceedings
    This act shall not affect actions or proceedings, civil or criminal, brought  by or against any department, division, bureau, board, commission, council or  other agency, the functions, powers and duties of which have been herein  assigned or transferred to the Department of Environmental Protection or to any  other department, or to any agency designated, continued or constituted  hereunder, and pending on the effective date of this act, but such actions or  proceedings may be prosecuted or defended in the same manner and to the same  effect by the department or agency to which such assignment or transfer has  been made hereunder, as if the foregoing provisions had not taken effect;  nor  shall any of the foregoing provisions affect any order or recommendation made  by, or other matters or proceedings before, any department, division, bureau,  board, commission, council or other agency, the functions, powers and duties of  which have been herein assigned or transferred to the Department of  Environmental Protection or to any other department, or to any agency  designated, continued or constituted hereunder, and all such matters or  proceedings pending before such department, division, bureau, board,  commission, council or other agency on the effective date of this act shall be  continued by the department or agency to which such assignment or transfer has  been made hereunder, as if the foregoing provisions had not taken effect.

     L.1970, c. 33, s. 19, eff. April 22, 1970.