§ 240. Transfer of functions. The functions and powers possessed by and the obligations and duties of the public service commission and the department of public service pertaining to the regulation of common carriers, bus companies, contract carriers of passengers by motor vehicle and contract carriers of property by motor vehicle, including such commission and […]
§ 241. Transfer of employees. Upon the transfer of functions to the department pursuant to this article, provision should be made for the transfer to the department of such employees of the public service commission and the department of public service who are engaged in carrying out such functions as the chairman of the public […]
§ 242. Transfer of records. The public service commission and the department of public service shall deliver to the commissioner all books, papers, records and property of such commission and department pertaining to the functions transferred pursuant to this article.
§ 243. Continuity of authority. For the purpose of succession to all functions, powers, duties and obligations transferred pursuant to this article, the department shall constitute the continuation of the public service commission and the department of public service, and not a different agency or authority.
§ 244. Continuation of rules and regulations. All rules and regulations, acts, determinations, orders and decisions of the public service commission and the department of public service, pertaining to the functions transferred pursuant to this article, in force at the time of such transfer shall continue in force and effect as rules, regulations, acts, determinations, […]
§ 245. Completion of unfinished business. Any business or other matter undertaken or commenced by the public service commission or the department of public service pertaining to or connected with the functions, powers, obligations and duties transferred pursuant to this article, and pending on the effective date thereof, may be conducted and completed by the […]
§ 246. Terms occurring in laws, contracts or other documents. Whenever the public service commission or the department of public service is referred to or designated in any law, contract or document pertaining to the functions, powers, obligations and duties transferred pursuant to this article, such reference or designation shall be deemed to refer to […]
§ 247. Existing rights and remedies preserved. No existing right or remedy of any character shall be lost, impaired or affected by reason of this article.
§ 248. Pending actions and proceedings. 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 […]
§ 249. Transfer of appropriations. All appropriations or reappropriations for the functions herein transferred heretofore made to the public service commission or the department of public service, or segregated pursuant to law, to the extent of remaining unexpended or unencumbered balances thereof, whether allocated or unallocated or whether obligated or unobligated, are hereby transferred to […]
§ 250. Opinions, determinations, decisions and judgments. All opinions, determinations, decisions and judgments hitherto rendered in a court of competent jurisdiction in an action or proceeding in which the public service commission or department of public service was a party shall continue to be binding and effective with respect to the matters therein determined with […]
§ 251. Codification of changes. The commissioner shall prepare or cause to be prepared for the submission to a session of the legislature a codification of the laws relating to the functions, powers and duties of the public service commission or the department of public service as amended, repealed or modified and other acts related […]
