N.Y. Navigation Law § 202: Application and saving clause

§ 202. Application and saving clause. Any work or proceeding initiated

under any existing law which is repealed through the enactment of this

chapter shall be continued legally to its termination and conclusion

subject to the provisions of and in accordance with the procedure

prescribed by such law. It is the intent that upon the enactment of

this chapter into law all proceedings undertaken thereafter relative to

the navigable waters of the state, as defined in this chapter, shall be

administered under the authority of and by the provisions contained in

this chapter. Upon all waters where the United States authorities have

established active control of navigation, any part of this chapter which

is contrary to or in conflict with the United States navigation law, or

with regulations issued pursuant thereto, shall be considered

inoperative and the pertinent part of the United States law or

regulation shall apply. It is the intent upon enactment of this chapter

that no provision hereof shall affect or impair in any manner whatsoever

any provision of chapter two hundred eighty-five of the laws of nineteen

hundred forty. If any clause, sentence, paragraph or part of this

chapter shall, for any reason 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 or part thereof, directly involved in

the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered. Nothing

contained in this chapter shall be construed to abridge the terms of

office of the board of commissioners of pilots in the city of New York;

nor to limit or restrict the powers of such board under article six, nor

to confer a power or impose a duty upon the commissioner relating

thereto.