N.Y. Municipal Home Rule § 57: Effectiveness of certain acts of the legislature

§ 57. Effectiveness of certain acts of the legislature. 1. A state

statute of the year nineteen hundred sixty-three which, in form, amends

or repeals or purports to amend or repeal any provision or provisions 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, as in force immediately prior to January first, nineteen

hundred sixty-four, shall be deemed and construed as an amendment or

repeal, in whole or in part, as the case may be, of the corresponding

provision or provisions of such law, article or sections, as contained

in this chapter.

2. A state statute of the year nineteen hundred sixty-three which

adds, or purports to add a new section, subdivision or other provision

of law to 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, as in force immediately prior to January

first, nineteen hundred sixty-four, shall be deemed and construed as

having been added to this chapter and shall be given full effect

according to its context as if the same had been added expressly and in

terms to this chapter and shall be deemed and construed to have been

inserted in this chapter in the appropriate position in regard to and as

modifying the effect of the corresponding provision or provisions of

this chapter.