N.Y. Private Housing Finance Law § 559: Savings clause

§ 559. Savings clause. 1. The repeal of laws as specified in section

five hundred sixty of this article, or amendment of any law as provided

by this act, shall not affect or impair the validity of any action taken

by any public official under the law in effect immediately prior to the

time this article shall take effect nor affect or impair any contract or

remedy or any act done or right accruing, accrued or acquired, or any

penalty, forfeiture or punishment under or by virtue of the laws so

repealed and in existence prior to the time when this article takes

effect, but the same may be asserted, enforced or prosecuted, and for

such purposes all of the laws specified in section five hundred sixty

are hereby continued in full force and effect.

2. This article or anything herein contained shall not affect or abate

any actions, proceedings, civil or criminal, pending at the time when

this article takes effect, brought by, for or against the state, any

municipality, authority, limited dividend or limited-profit housing

company, under or in pursuance of the provisions of the laws repealed or

amended by this article or act; but all such actions or proceedings may

be continued, prosecuted, conducted and completed.

3. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this article

shall 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, section or part thereof directly involved in the controversy

in which such judgment shall have been rendered.

4. The provisions of this article shall be construed liberally so as

to facilitate the purposes of this article.