§ 107. Pending actions and proceedings. This chapter shall not affect
any action or proceeding, civil or criminal, brought by or against the
transit commission, or the former transit construction commissioner,
public service commission for the first district, or the board of rapid
transit railroad commissioners in respect of rights, powers, duties and
obligations transferred to and conferred upon the board of
transportation; but such action or proceeding may be prosecuted or
defended in the name of the board of transportation and, upon
application to the court, the board of transportation shall be
substituted as a party in such pending action or proceeding. Any
investigation, examination or hearing, undertaken, commenced or
instituted by the transit commission or the transit construction
commissioner or the public service commission for the first district or
the board of rapid transit railroad commissioners before the time this
article takes effect, and relating to a subject or matter jurisdiction
whereof was transferred to the board of transportation, may be conducted
to final determination by the board of transportation.