Section 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.
    * NB Effective March 21, 2010