New York Education Law Section 6225 - Pending actions and proceedings.

 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.

Last modified: February 3, 2019