52:17B-46 - Pending actions or proceedings against department, officer or agency not affected

52:17B-46.  Pending actions or proceedings against department, officer or agency not affected
    This act shall not affect actions or proceedings, civil or criminal, brought  by or against any department, officer or agency, the functions, powers and  duties of which have been herein assigned or transferred to the Department of  Law and Public Safety or to any officer or 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, officer 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,  officer or agency, the functions, powers and duties of which have been herein  assigned or transferred to the Department of Law and Public Safety or to any  officer or agency designated, continued or constituted hereunder, and all such matters or proceedings pending before such department, officer or agency on the  effective date of this act shall be continued by the department, officer or  agency to which such assignment or transfer has been made hereunder, as if the  foregoing provisions had not taken effect.

     L.1948, c. 439, p. 1721, s. 46.