(a) All books, records, papers, maps, charts, plans and other material including, but not limited to, any equipment in the possession of any agency of the State and used in connection with a function transferred by this chapter to the Office of Management and Budget shall, on July 1, 2005, be delivered into the custody of the said Office. All investigations, petitions, hearings and legal proceedings pending before or instituted by any agency from which functions are transferred by this chapter and not concluded prior to July 1, 2005, shall continue unabated and remain in full force and effect, notwithstanding the passage of this chapter and, where necessary, may be completed before, by or in the name of the Office. All orders, rules and regulations made by any agency from which functions are transferred by this chapter and which govern such functions, and which are in effect on July 1, 2005, shall remain in full force and effect until revoked or modified in accordance with law by the Office. All contracts and obligations of any agency made or undertaken in the performance of a function transferred to the Office by this chapter and being in force on July 1, 2005, shall, notwithstanding this chapter, remain in full force and effect and be performed by the Office.

(b) Employees of any agency whose functions are consistent with and have been transferred to the Office of Management and Budget by this chapter shall continue and be deemed to be the employees of the said Office on July 1, 2005, and, where applicable, with all the benefits accrued as merit employees as of July 1, 2005.

(c) All definitions and references to any commission, board, department, council or agency which appear in any other act or law shall, to the extent that they are consistent with this chapter and in connection with a function transferred to the Office of Management and Budget, be construed as referring and relating to the Office of Management and Budget as created and established by this chapter.

(d) All definitions and references to any director, commissioner, executive secretary, commission, board or council member or other similar person which appear in any other act or law shall, to the extent that they are consistent with this chapter and in connection with a function transferred by this chapter to the Office of Management and Budget, be construed as referring or relating to such person or persons and their powers, duties and functions as established and created by this chapter.

75 Del. Laws, c. 88, § 4.