2023 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  be deemed and construed to be amended, modified, changed or repealed  as
  though the same had been expressly and in terms so amended or repealed.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.