§5A-11-7. Effectuation of transfer of Public Land Corporation and transition.

To effectuate the transfer of the Public Land Corporation to Real Estate Division of the Department of Administration upon the effective date of this section in the year 2007:

(1) Subject to the provisions of section one-d of this article, the Secretary of the Department of Administration or a designee and the Secretary of the Department of Commerce or a designee shall determine which employees, records, responsibilities, obligations, assets and property, of whatever kind and character, of the Public Land Corporation will be transferred to the Real Estate Division of the Department of Administration beginning the effective date of this section in the year 2007: Provided, That any title transferred to or vested in the Public Land Corporation, formerly existing under the provisions of article one-a, chapter twenty of this code, as of July 1, 2007, or which may hereafter become vested in the Public Land Corporation in accordance with the provisions of this article, shall continue to be vested in the Public Land Corporation.

(2) All orders, determinations, rules, permits, grants, contracts, certificates, licenses, waivers, bonds, authorizations and privileges which have been issued, made, granted or allowed to become effective by the Governor, by any state department or agency or official thereof, or by a court of competent jurisdiction, in the performance of functions which have been transferred to the Real Estate Division of the Department of Administration and were in effect on the date the transfer occurred continue in effect, for the benefit of the department, according to their terms until modified, terminated, superseded, set aside or revoked in accordance with the law by the Governor, the secretary of the Department of Administration, or other authorized official, a court of competent jurisdiction or by operation of law.

(3) Any proceedings, including, but not limited to, notices of proposed rulemaking, in which the Public Land Corporation was an initiating or responding party are not affected by the transfer of the Public Land Corporation to the Real Estate Division of the Department of Administration. Orders issued in any proceedings continue in effect until modified, terminated, superseded or revoked by the Governor, the Secretary of Administration, by a court of competent jurisdiction or by operation of law. Nothing in this subdivision prohibits the discontinuance or modification of any proceeding under the same terms and conditions and to the same extent that a proceeding could have been discontinued or modified if the Public Land Corporation had not been transferred to the Real Estate Division of the Department of Administration. Transfer of the Public Land Corporation does not affect suits commenced prior to the effective date of the transfer and all such suits and proceedings shall be had, appeals taken and judgments rendered in the same manner and with like effect as if the transfer had not occurred, except that the Secretary of the Department of Administration or other officer may, in an appropriate case, be substituted or added as a party.