General Obligations Law 1-201 — Legislation

Legislation Search OpenLegislation Statutes Search Term Search icon Search up TITLE 2 Construction; Applicability of Certain Sections next SECTION 1-202 Definition Viewing most recent revision (from 2014-09-22) View historical revision as of: -- Choose a Date -- 2014-09-22 Share Facebook Email SECTION 1-201 Construction of act of reconsolidation General Obligations (GOB) CHAPTER 24-A, ARTICLE 1, TITLE 2 § 1-201. Construction of act of reconsolidation. 1. This chapter shall be construed as a continuation and re-enactment of the provisions repealed by article nineteen hereof as such provisions existed on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred sixty-two. 2. The repeal by this chapter of provisions specified in article nineteen hereof and the enactment of this chapter shall not affect any action or proceeding pending under any such provision at the time this chapter shall take effect. 3. Any act of the legislature of the year nineteen hundred sixty-three or nineteen hundred sixty-four which in form amends or repeals or purports to amend or repeal any provision or provisions repealed by article nineteen of this chapter shall be legally effective notwithstanding the repeal of such provision or provisions and shall be construed as an amendment or repeal, as the case may be, of the corresponding provision or provisions of this chapter, and such corresponding provisions shall be construed to be amended, modified, changed or repealed as though they had been expressly and in terms so amended or repealed. 4. Reference by any law, general or special, in force on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred sixty-two, or in any act of the legislature of the year nineteen hundred sixty-three or nineteen hundred sixty-four, to a provision repealed by article nineteen of this chapter, as in force immediately before the time this chapter shall take effect, shall be construed to refer to the corresponding provision of this chapter.