2013 New York Consolidated Laws
PVH - Private Housing Finance
Article 10 - (550 - 560) SALE OR LEASE OF PROJECTS
559 - Savings clause.

 
    §  559.  Savings clause. 1. The repeal of laws as specified in section
  five hundred sixty of this article, or amendment of any law as  provided
  by this act, shall not affect or impair the validity of any action taken
  by  any public official under the law in effect immediately prior to the
  time this article shall take effect nor affect or impair any contract or
  remedy or any act done or right accruing, accrued or  acquired,  or  any
  penalty,  forfeiture  or  punishment  under  or by virtue of the laws so
  repealed and in existence prior to the  time  when  this  article  takes
  effect,  but  the  same may be asserted, enforced or prosecuted, and for
  such purposes all of the laws specified in section  five  hundred  sixty
  are hereby continued in full force and effect.
    2. This article or anything herein contained shall not affect or abate
  any  actions,  proceedings,  civil or criminal, pending at the time when
  this article takes effect, brought by, for or  against  the  state,  any
  municipality,  authority,  limited  dividend  or  limited-profit housing
  company, under or in pursuance of the provisions of the laws repealed or
  amended by this article or act; but all such actions or proceedings  may
  be continued, prosecuted, conducted and completed.
    3. 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.
    4. The provisions of this article shall be construed liberally  so  as
  to facilitate the purposes of this article.