2010 New York Code
SOS - Social Services
Article 11 - (484 - 486) CONSTRUCTION; LAWS REPEALED; WHEN TO TAKE EFFECT
485 - Construction.

§  485.    Construction. 1.   The provisions of this chapter so far as
  they are substantially the same as those existing at the time they shall
  take effect, shall be construed as a continuation of such laws, modified
  or amended, according to the language employed in this chapter, and  not
  as new enactments.  References in laws not repealed to provisions of law
  repealed,  or  transferred  and  enacted  into  and  made a part of this
  chapter,  shall  be  construed  as  applying  to   the   provisions   so
  incorporated.
    2.    All  references  in this chapter to articles, titles or sections
  shall, unless otherwise indicated in connection therewith, be deemed  to
  refer  to  the  articles, titles or sections of this chapter; and, if so
  stated in connection therewith, to a subdivision of a  section  of  this
  chapter.    All  references in any section of this chapter to a numbered
  subdivision, or clause shall, unless otherwise indicated  in  connection
  therewith,  be deemed to refer to the subdivision, or clause so numbered
  or lettered in such section.  All references in any article to  a  title
  shall,  unless otherwise indicated in connection therewith, be deemed to
  refer to the title so numbered in such article.