Section 224. Pending actions or proceedings

This chapter or anything
  therein contained shall not affect or abate  any  actions,  proceedings,
  civil  or  criminal,  pending  at  the time when this chapter shall take
  effect, brought by, for  or  against  the  state,  the  state  board  of
  housing,   any   municipality,  authority  or  limited-dividend  housing
  corporation, under or  in  pursuance  of  the  provisions  of  the  laws
  repealed  by  this  chapter;  but all such actions or proceedings may be
  continued, prosecuted,  conducted  and  completed  notwithstanding  that
  functions, powers and duties of any agency, officer or party thereto may
  by  this chapter be assigned or transferred to another agency or officer
  and as if such  laws  were  not  repealed  but  continued  to  be  fully
  effective.