§ 2611 — Pending actions and proceedings

§ 2611. Pending actions and proceedings. (a) No action or proceeding,\ncivil or criminal, pending at the time when this act shall take effect,\nshall be affected or abated by the passage of this act or by anything\nherein contained. All actions or proceedings, civil or criminal, pending\nin the courts of special sessions of the towns of Babylon, Huntington,\nIslip, Smithtown and Brookhaven or pending before justices of the peace\nin the said towns on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred sixty-five,\nthe date such courts are to be abolished, are hereby transferred to the\ndistrict court of Suffolk county.\n (b) For the purpose of the disposition of such actions and proceedings\nonly, the jurisdiction of the district court of Suffolk county shall be\ndeemed:\n (1) expanded to that of the abolished court whenever necessary to\nsustain the jurisdiction of the district court of Suffolk county over\nsuch action or proceeding if the abolished court has jurisdiction of the\nsame; and\n (2) contracted to that of the abolished court so as to prevent the\ndistrict court of Suffolk county from giving relief of such nature or in\nsuch amount as could not be given by the abolished court.\n (c) Except as provided for in the foregoing, practice and procedure in\nsuch actions and proceedings shall be as if the same were instituted in\nthe district court of Suffolk county after December thirty-first,\nnineteen hundred sixty-five. But if the court shall find that a practice\nor procedure is necessary to the disposition of such action or\nproceeding, the court may permit recourse to or completion of the same.\n (d) All warrants theretofore issued by magistrates of the courts of\nspecial sessions of the towns of Babylon, Huntington, Islip, Smithtown\nand Brookhaven shall after December thirty-first, nineteen hundred\nsixty-five, be deemed valid warrants of the district court of Suffolk\ncounty and be returnable therein.\n