Section 248. Pending actions and proceedings  


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  • No  action  or  proceeding
      pending on March first,  nineteen  hundred  seventy-one  brought  by  or
      against  the  public  service  commission  or  the  department of public
      service, and pertaining to or  connected  with  the  functions,  powers,
      obligations  and  duties  transferred pursuant to this article, shall be
      affected by this article, but the same may be prosecuted or defended  in
      the name of the department or the commissioner.  In all such actions and
      proceedings, the department or the commissioner, upon application to the
      court, shall be substituted as a party.