§ 6225. Pending actions and proceedings. No action or proceeding
based upon a cause of action which arose prior to the effective date of
this article or, with respect to Medgar Evers college, prior to July
first, nineteen hundred ninety-four, brought by or against the city of
New York, the city university of New York or its board of trustees, or
the city university construction fund shall be affected by any provision
of this article, but the same may be prosecuted or defended by the
corporation counsel of the city of New York in the name of the body
corporate of the city university of New York created by this article in
the same court in which the action is pending. In all such actions and
proceedings such body corporate, upon application to the court, shall be
substituted as a party. Judgments or awards in any such action or
proceeding shall be paid by the city of New York in the same manner as
prior to the effective date of this article, provided, however, the
state shall reimburse the city to the extent required by law in effect
at the time the cause of action arose.