The section defines “legal proceeding” and “document,” and says proceedings involving an abolished agency continue in the abolished agency’s name, with the new department substituted without needing document amendments.
§924. Legal proceedings and documents continued A. For purposes of this Section, "legal proceeding" includes, but is not limited to, any suit, action, incidental demand or action, claim, and any other matter filed or pending before any court, administrative agency, or other judicial or quasi-judicial body. B. For purposes of this Section, "document" includes, but is not limited to, any petition, application, exception, motion, rule, answer, incidental demand, citation, notice, return, affidavit, certificate, oath, bond or other security summons, subpoena, writ, interrogatory, deposition, inventory, appraisal, evidence, court record, instruction, verdict, judgment, order, injunction, confirmation, appointment, warrant, letter, homologation, and any other pleading or instrument whatsoever permitted or required in any legal proceeding. C. Any legal proceeding to which any agency, which is abolished and the powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities of which are transferred in accordance with the provisions of this Part, is a party and which is filed, initiated, or otherwise pending before any court on the effective date of such abolition and transfer, and all documents involved in or affected by said legal proceeding, shall retain their effectiveness and shall be continued in the name of the agency abolished. All further legal proceedings and documents in the continuation, disposition, and enforcement of said legal proceeding shall be in the name of the original party agency which is abolished, and the department to which the powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities of the agency are transferred shall be substituted for the original party agency without necessity for amendment of any document to substitute the name of the department or the name or title of any office, official, employee, or other agent or representative of the department. Any legal proceeding, and all documents involved in or affected by such legal proceeding, which has been continued in the name of the department after the effective date of the abolition of an agency so abolished, the powers, duties, functions, and responsibilities of which are so transferred, and prior to the effective date of this Section, shall retain their effectiveness, and those provisions of this Section requiring that the continuation, disposition and enforcement of a legal proceeding and documents related thereto shall be in the name of the agency shall not apply to or affect the validity of such legal proceeding. Acts 1977, No. 83, §1, eff. June 22, 1977.