N.Y. Village Law § 16-1608: Reincorporation of certain villages confirmed

§ 16-1608 Reincorporation of certain villages confirmed. All villages

in the state incorporated by special laws and subject to their

provisions which have attempted to reincorporate under the provisions of

chapter four hundred and fourteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and

ninety-seven and the acts amendatory thereof, between July first,

eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and January first, nineteen hundred

and four, or under the provisions of chapter sixty-four of the laws of

nineteen hundred and nine to the date of the adoption of this chapter,

and which have held their elections, elected their officers and

conducted their municipal affairs under or agreeably or substantially

under or substantially agreeable to the provisions of said law for the

period of one year, or longer are hereby declared to be regularly and

duly incorporated villages under this chapter; and, so far as any

defects, omissions or irregularities to the proceedings for such

reincorporation affect their annual and special elections and meetings

and their acts and proceedings at such elections and meetings and the

election of their mayors and their other village officers and all the

acts and proceedings of their boards of trustees and all the acts and

proceedings of their officers, their said annual and special elections

and meetings and the election of their mayors and trustees and their

other village officers and all acts and proceedings of their boards of

trustees and all the acts and proceedings of their officers, are hereby

declared to be legal and valid; and so far as any defects, omissions or

irregularities in their proceedings for such reincorporation affect the

title to the offices held by their mayors, trustees and other officers,

their said mayors, trustees and other officers are hereby declared to be

legally holding and entitled to their offices de jure until the

expiration thereof as provided by this chapter.

This section shall not affect any action or proceeding now pending in

any court.