New York Rent Laws
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The Local Emergency Housing Rent Control Act [1962]

Section 13. PENDING COURT PROCEEDINGS.

All appeals or other court proceedings relating to the regulation
and control of residential rents and evictions in a city having a
population of one million or more to which the temporary state
housing rent commission or the state rent administrator is a
party and which is pending on May first, nineteen hundred sixty-
two or thereafter prosecuted shall be prosecuted or defended by
the temporary state housing rent commission and the state rent
administrator pursuant to the state emergency housing rent
control law to a final determination or other disposition by the
court in accordance with law. If the court remits any such matter
to the temporary state housing rent commission, the commission
may transfer such matter to the city housing rent agency for
disposition pursuant to subdivision eleven of this section.