48 - Courts on the judiciary; former commission on judicial conduct; jurisdiction and powers.
§ 48. Courts on the judiciary; former commission on judicial conduct; jurisdiction and powers. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary: 1. If a court on the judiciary shall have been convened before the first day of April, nineteen hundred seventy-eight, and the proceeding therein shall not have been concluded by that date, the court on the judiciary shall have continuing jurisdiction beyond that date to conclude the proceeding in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-two of article six of the constitution in effect on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred seventy-eight. 2. If, pursuant to the former provisions of section twenty-two of article six of the constitution and article two-A of the judiciary law, a complaint had been received by the former commission on judicial conduct but a court on the judiciary had not been convened in respect to such matter on or before the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred seventy-eight, a court on the judiciary shall not be convened, and the provisions of section twenty-two of article six of the constitution, as such section took effect on the first day of April, nineteen hundred seventy-eight, and the provisions of this article shall apply. 3. All matters pending before the former commission on judicial conduct on the thirty-first day of March, nineteen hundred seventy-eight, shall be transferred to and, effective the first day of April, nineteen hundred seventy-eight, shall be pending before the commission on judicial conduct established by section twenty-two of article six of the constitution, as such section took effect on the first day of April, nineteen hundred seventy-eight, and all files and records of the former commission shall be transferred to, and shall become files and records of the new commission created by this article from and after the first day of April, nineteen hundred seventy-eight. 4. All provisions of law enacted to take effect on or after the first day of April, nineteen hundred seventy-eight, relating to procedures before the commission on judicial conduct established by section twenty-two of article six of the constitution, as such section took effect on the first day of April, nineteen hundred seventy-eight, and all rules adopted by such commission, shall apply to (1) all matters coming before the commission on or after the first day of April, nineteen hundred seventy-eight, and (2) all matters transferred to such commission pursuant to subdivision three of this section. 5. The commission shall succeed to the exercise of all of the functions, powers and duties of the former commission on judicial conduct including the power to continue any investigation, proceeding or matter pending undetermined before such former commission pursuant to the former provisions of article two-A of this chapter and the power to act as counsel to conduct any proceeding before a court on the judiciary, pursuant to the former provisions of subdivision f of section twenty-two of article six of the constitution, provided, however, that any recommendation or determination by the commission in any matter pending undetermined before such former commission shall be made in accordance with the provisions of this article. 6. Any action taken, function performed or proceeding conducted by the commission on judicial conduct pursuant to the authority of section twenty-two of article six of the constitution, as such section took effect on the first day of April nineteen hundred seventy-eight, prior to the date on which the provisions of this article became effective, are hereby legalized, ratified and confirmed.