N.Y. Public Housing Law § 219-i: Miscellaneous

§ 219-i. Miscellaneous. 1. All actions taken, contracts or

commitments made, appropriations made, indebtedness incurred, all bonds

or other obligations heretofore issued, including any guarantees

thereof, and the proceedings authorizing the issuance thereof, and all

things done by or between an authority, city, or government, prior to

the enactment of this article and subsequent to January first, nineteen

hundred forty-six, and for the purposes provided in this article, are

hereby ratified, confirmed and approved and are hereby validated in all

respects.

2. To the extent that the provisions of this article are inconsistent

with the provisions of any other article of this chapter or with the

provisions of any general, special or local law or charter, the

provisions of this article shall be controlling.

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. Before a city or an authority enters, without public advertisement

for sealed bids, into a contract which but for the provisions of this

article would be required by general, special or local law to be made on

sealed bids invited by public advertisement, such city or authority

shall obtain the approval of the mayor or deputy mayor of the city.

Within twenty days after the execution of such contract, it shall cause

to be published in the official publication of the city a notice that

such contract has been let and the name of the contractor.