2006 New York Code - Savings Clause.

 
    §  4413.  Savings clause. Nothing contained in this article or any act
  amendatory thereof shall affect or impair the validity of any  act  done
  or right accruing, accrued or acquired or any order, judgment, or status
  established  prior  to  the  enactment  of  this article or prior to the
  amendment of any act amendatory thereof.
    Medical corporations organized pursuant to the  provisions  of  former
  article  forty-four  of  the  public  health  law in effect prior to the
  effectiveness of the provisions of this article may continue to  operate
  pursuant  to  the provisions of law in effect prior to the effectiveness
  hereof.
    Health maintenance organizations that  applied  for  a  license  under
  article  forty-three  of  the  insurance  law and receive approval under
  article twenty-eight of the public health law  may  continue  under  the
  provisions  of  the  laws  in  existence  on  the effective date of this
  article.