N.Y. Municipal Home Rule § 56: Existing charters and other laws continued

§ 56. Existing charters and other laws continued. 1. All existing

valid provisions of laws, charters and local laws not specifically

repealed by this chapter shall continue in force until lawfully

repealed, amended, modified or superseded.

2. A reference in any law, ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation or

document to any provision of the city home rule law, village home rule

law, article six or article six-a of the county law, or sections

fifty-one-a through fifty-one-f of the town law, repealed by this

chapter, in force at the time this chapter takes effect, shall be deemed

and construed to refer to the corresponding provision or provisions of

the municipal home rule law as continued, modified or amended by this

chapter.