Any business or other matter undertaken or commenced by any board, trust, council or commission pertaining to or connected with the functions, powers and duties transferred to the office by the provisions of this act, and pending on the effective date of this act, may be conducted and completed by the office in the same manner and under the same terms and conditions and with the same effect as if conducted and completed by such board, trust, council or commission.
N.Y. Parks Rec. and Hist. Preserv. Law § 29.05