Section 20.35. Actions by and against a trust

1. The supreme court shall
  have exclusive jurisdiction of any action, suit  or  special  proceeding
  brought  by  or  against  or involving a trust. The venue of any action,
  suit or special proceeding brought against a trust shall be laid in  the
  city and county in which its principal office is located.
    2.  Any  action  or  proceeding  to which a trust or the people of the
  state, a county or a municipality may be parties, in which any  question
  arises  as  to  the validity of this article or the special law creating
  the trust, shall  be  preferred  over  all  other  civil  causes  except
  election  causes  in  all  courts  of  the  state and shall be heard and
  determined in preference to all other  civil  business  pending  therein
  except  election  causes,  irrespective of position on the calendar. The
  same preference shall be granted upon application of counsel to a  trust
  in  any  action  or proceeding in which the trust is a party or in which
  such counsel may be allowed to intervene.
    3. Except as otherwise expressly provided by  a  lease,  sublease,  or
  other  agreement  to  which  it  is  a  party,  a participating cultural
  institution or not-for-profit cultural organization shall not be  liable
  to  any  person  for  any claim, loss, cost or damage arising from or in
  connection with the development of a combined-use facility,  a  facility
  for  a  not-for-profit  cultural  organization  or  a  public television
  facility with respect to which a trust entered  an  agreement  prior  to
  January first, nineteen hundred ninety, or any part or portion thereof.