Section 75-7060 - Same; legal custody of records; preservation of civil actions and proceedings; no abatement of criminal actions(a) The department of corrections shall have the legal custody of all records, memoranda, writings, entries, prints, representations or combinations thereof of any act, transaction, occurrence or event of the juvenile justice authority and any agency or office transferred thereto under previous law.(b) No suit, action, or other proceeding, judicial or administrative, lawfully commenced, or which could have been commenced, by or against any state agency or program mentioned in K.S.A. 75-7057 through 75-7071, and amendments thereto, or by or against any officer of the state in such officer's official duties, shall abate by reason of the governmental reorganization effected under the provisions of K.S.A. 75-7057 through 75-7071, and amendments thereto. The court may allow any such suit, action, or other proceeding to be maintained by or against the successor of any such state agency or any officer affected.(c) No criminal action commenced or which could have been commenced by the state shall abate by the taking effect of K.S.A. 75-7057 through 75-7071, and amendments thereto. Executive Reorganization Order No. 42, § 3; L. 2013, ch. 143, § 4; July 1.