Section 603. 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  division  of
  housing,  any municipality, limited-profit housing company, the New York
  state housing  finance  agency,  limited-dividend  housing  corporation,
  redevelopment  company,  urban  redevelopment  corporation  or  mortgage
  facilities 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  laws  repealed  by this chapter; but all such actions or proceedings may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 as if such  laws  were
  not repealed but continued to be fully effective.