N.Y. General Obligations Law § 1-201: Construction of act of reconsolidation

§ 1-201. Construction of act of reconsolidation. 1. This chapter shall

be construed as a continuation and re-enactment of the provisions

repealed by article nineteen hereof as such provisions existed on

December thirty-first, nineteen hundred sixty-two.

2. The repeal by this chapter of provisions specified in article

nineteen hereof and the enactment of this chapter shall not affect any

action or proceeding pending under any such provision at the time this

chapter shall take effect.

3. Any act of the legislature of the year nineteen hundred sixty-three

or nineteen hundred sixty-four which in form amends or repeals or

purports to amend or repeal any provision or provisions repealed by

article nineteen of this chapter shall be legally effective

notwithstanding the repeal of such provision or provisions and shall be

construed as an amendment or repeal, as the case may be, of the

corresponding provision or provisions of this chapter, and such

corresponding provisions shall be construed to be amended, modified,

changed or repealed as though they had been expressly and in terms so

amended or repealed.

4. Reference by any law, general or special, in force on December

thirty-first, nineteen hundred sixty-two, or in any act of the

legislature of the year nineteen hundred sixty-three or nineteen hundred

sixty-four, to a provision repealed by article nineteen of this chapter,

as in force immediately before the time this chapter shall take effect,

shall be construed to refer to the corresponding provision of this

chapter.