N.Y. Second Class Cities Law § 4: Application of chapter

§ 4. Application of chapter. A provision of this chapter shall apply,

according to its term, only to a city of the state which on the

thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-three was a

city of the second class, until such provision is superseded pursuant to

the municipal home rule law, was superseded pursuant to the former city

home rule law or is or was otherwise changed, repealed or superseded

pursuant to law.