NY Civ Serv L § 185 (2021)
2021 New York Laws CVS - Civil Service Article 13 - Saving Clause; Construction; Separability 185 - Saving Clause; Construction.

§ 185. Saving  clause;  construction. 1. Nothing contained in this act   shall affect or impair any  act  done  or  right  accruing,  accrued  or   acquired  prior to the time when this act shall take effect, under or by   virtue  of  the  provisions  of  the  civil  service  law  as  in  force   immediately  prior  to the time this act shall take effect, but the same   may be asserted and enforced as fully and to the same extent as if  this   act  had  not been enacted. This act shall not affect pending actions or   proceedings, but the same may be prosecuted  or  defended  in  the  same   manner and with the same effect as though this act had not been enacted.2. Any act of the legislature of the year nineteen hundred fifty-eight   which,  in  form,  amends  or repeals or purports to amend or repeal any   provision or provisions of the civil service law as in force and  effect   immediately  prior  to  the  time  this  act shall take effect, shall be   legally effective  notwithstanding  the  repeal  of  such  provision  or   provisions by this act and shall be construed as an amendment or repeal,   as the case may be, of the corresponding provision or provisions of this   act  irrespective  of whether such provision or provisions are contained   in this act in one or more than one  article,  section,  subdivision  or   other  part thereof and such corresponding provision or provisions shall   be deemed and construed to be amended, modified, changed or repealed  as   though the same had been expressly and in terms so amended or repealed.3.  An act of the legislature of the year nineteen hundred fifty-eight   which adds or purports to add a new  article,  section,  subdivision  or   other  provision of law to the civil service law, as in force and effect   immediately prior to the time this  act  shall  take  effect,  shall  be   deemed  and  construed  as  having been added to such law, as amended by   this act, and shall be given full effect according to its context as  if   the  same  had been added expressly and in terms of such law, as amended   by this act, and shall be deemed and construed to have been inserted  in   such law, as amended by this act, in the appropriate respective position   in  regard to and as modifying the effect of the corresponding provision   or provisions of such law, as amended by this act.4. Reference in any act  of  the  legislature  of  the  year  nineteen   hundred  fifty-eight  to  an  existing  article, section, subdivision or   other provision of the civil service law, as in force immediately  prior   to the time this act shall take effect, shall be deemed and construed to   refer  to  the  corresponding  article,  section,  subdivision  or other   provision of such law, as renumbered, modified or amended by this act.5. Reference in any general, special or local law, rule, regulation or   public document to any provision or provisions of the civil service law,   as in force immediately prior to the time this act  shall  take  effect,   shall  be deemed to be and construed as a reference to the corresponding   provision or provisions of such law, as renumbered, modified or  amended   by  this act, irrespective of whether such provision or provisions is or   are  contained  in  one  or  more  than  one  title,  article,  section,   subdivision or other part thereof.6.  The  provisions added to the civil service law by this act insofar   as they are substantially the same as provisions of such law repealed by   this  act  shall  be  construed  as  a  continuation  of  such  repealed   provisions, and not as new enactments.