N.Y. Multiple Dwelling Law § 366: Saving clauses

§ 366. Saving clauses. 1. The repeal of any provisions of this

chapter, or the repeal of any provisions of any statute of the state or

local law, ordinance, resolution or regulation shall not affect or

impair any act done, offense committed or right accruing, accrued or

acquired, or liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred or

imposed prior to the time of such repeal, but the same may be enjoyed,

asserted, enforced, prosecuted or inflicted as fully and to the same

extent and in the same manner as if such provisions had not been

repealed.

2. Any action or proceeding, civil or criminal, begun before April

eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, under or pursuant to or by

virtue of any provision of the tenement house law which is superseded by

this chapter as in this chapter provided, may be prosecuted, conducted

and completed in the same manner as if such law were not so superseded

but continued to be fully effective.

3. No action or proceeding, civil or criminal, pending at the time

this chapter, as amended by the laws of nineteen hundred forty-six,

takes effect, brought by or against a city or any agency or officer

thereof, shall be affected or abated by the adoption of this chapter as

so amended, or by anything therein contained, and all such actions and

proceedings may be continued in full force and effect under the

appropriate provisions of this chapter.

4. No existing right or remedy of any kind shall be lost or impaired

by reason of the adoption of this chapter as so amended unless by

specific provision of a law which does not amend all articles of this

chapter.

5. Except as otherwise provided in subdivision six of section three,

the provisions of this chapter shall not operate to limit or decrease

the power of any city to adopt local laws, ordinances, resolutions or

regulations in relation to any matter in respect to which such power

would otherwise exist.

6. The tenement house law shall, from and after the taking effect of

this chapter, not apply to cities with a population of eight hundred

thousand or more.