This act shall not affect actions or proceedings, civil or criminal, brought by or against the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Law and Public Safety relating to the functions, powers and duties which have been herein transferred to the Department of Transportation, and pending on the effective date of this act, but such actions or proceedings may be prosecuted in the same manner and to the same effect by the Department of Transportation as if the foregoing provisions had not taken effect; nor shall any of the foregoing provisions affect any order or recommendation made by, or other matters or proceedings before, the Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Law and Public Safety relating to the functions, powers and duties which have been herein transferred to the Department of Transportation, and all such matters or proceedings pending before such Division of Motor Vehicles in the Department of Law and Public Safety on the effective date of this act shall be continued by the Department of Transportation, as if the foregoing provisions had not taken effect.

L.1969, c. 65, s. 8.