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    § 718. Construction. 1. References in other laws, etc. With respect to
  annexation  proceedings  commenced  on  or after January first, nineteen
  hundred sixty-four, reference in any  general,  special  or  local  law,
  county, city or village charter, ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation
  or  document to any provision of the general city law, village law, town
  law, county law, or other law repealed by this chapter, in force at  the
  time  this  chapter  shall take effect, shall be deemed and construed to
  refer to the corresponding provision  of  this  article  to  the  extent
  consistent with the provisions of this article.
    2.  Pending  actions and proceedings.  No action or proceeding pending
  at the time when this chapter shall take effect shall be affected by any
  provision of this chapter, but the same may be prosecuted,  defended  or
  enforced as if this chapter had not been enacted.
    3.  Existing  rights  and  remedies  preserved.   No existing right or
  remedy of any character shall be lost, impaired or affected by reason of
  this article, nor shall the validity of any action taken by  any  public
  official  under  the  law  in  force  immediately prior to the time this
  article shall take effect be affected by the enactment of this article.
    4. Severability.  If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or  part
  of this article shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction
  to  be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the
  remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause,
  sentence, paragraph, section or part thereof directly  involved  in  the
  controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
    5.  Article  controlling.    The  provisions  of this article shall be
  controlling notwithstanding any inconsistent act of the  legislature  to
  the contrary.