N.Y. General Municipal Law § 718: Construction

§ 718. Construction. 1. References in other laws, etc. With respect to

annexation proceedings commenced on or after January first, nineteen

hundred sixty-four, reference in any general, special or local law,

county, city or village charter, ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation

or document to any provision of the general city law, village law, town

law, county law, or other law repealed by this chapter, in force at the

time this chapter shall take effect, shall be deemed and construed to

refer to the corresponding provision of this article to the extent

consistent with the provisions of this article.

2. Pending actions and proceedings. No action or proceeding pending

at the time when this chapter shall take effect shall be affected by any

provision of this chapter, but the same may be prosecuted, defended or

enforced as if this chapter had not been enacted.

3. Existing rights and remedies preserved. No existing right or

remedy of any character shall be lost, impaired or affected by reason of

this article, nor shall the validity of any action taken by any public

official under the law in force immediately prior to the time this

article shall take effect be affected by the enactment of this article.

4. Severability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part

of this article shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction

to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the

remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause,

sentence, paragraph, section or part thereof directly involved in the

controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.

5. Article controlling. The provisions of this article shall be

controlling notwithstanding any inconsistent act of the legislature to

the contrary.