New York Consolidated Laws, Municipal Home Rule Law - MHR § 57. Effectiveness of certain acts of the legislature

1. A state statute of the year nineteen hundred sixty-three which, in form, amends or repeals or purports to amend or repeal any provision or provisions of the city home rule law, village home rule law, article six or article six-a of the county law or sections fifty-one-a through fifty-one-f of the town law, as in force immediately prior to January first, nineteen hundred sixty-four, shall be deemed and construed as an amendment or repeal, in whole or in part, as the case may be, of the corresponding provision or provisions of such law, article or sections, as contained in this chapter.

2. A state statute of the year nineteen hundred sixty-three which adds, or purports to add a new section, subdivision or other provision of law to the city home rule law, village home rule law, article six or article six-a of the county law or sections fifty-one-a through fifty-one-f of the town law, as in force immediately prior to January first, nineteen hundred sixty-four, shall be deemed and construed as having been added to this chapter and shall be given full effect according to its context as if the same had been added expressly and in terms to this chapter and shall be deemed and construed to have been inserted in this chapter in the appropriate position in regard to and as modifying the effect of the corresponding provision or provisions of this chapter.