770 - Effect on actions and proceedings.

§  770. Effect on actions and proceedings. 1. Suits may be brought and  maintained against a consolidated local government entity in any of  the  courts  of  the  state  in  the  same  manner as against any other local  government entity.    2. In any action or  proceeding  pending  on  the  effective  date  of  consolidation to which any component local government entity is a party,  the consolidated local government entity may be substituted in its place  and  the  action  or  proceeding  may  be  prosecuted  to judgment as if  consolidation had not taken place.