N.Y. Municipal Home Rule Law § 56

§ 56. Existing charters and other laws continued. 1. All existing\nvalid provisions of laws, charters and local laws not specifically\nrepealed by this chapter shall continue in force until lawfully\nrepealed, amended, modified or superseded.\n 2. A reference in any law, ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation or\ndocument to any provision of the city home rule law, village home rule\nlaw, article six or article six-a of the county law, or sections\nfifty-one-a through fifty-one-f of the town law, repealed by this\nchapter, in force at the time this chapter takes effect, shall be deemed\nand construed to refer to the corresponding provision or provisions of\nthe municipal home rule law as continued, modified or amended by this\nchapter.\n