New York Laws
Article 50 - Saving Clauses; Laws Repealed; Time to Take Effect
3013 - Saving Clauses.

§ 3013. Saving clauses. 1. Nothing contained in this chapter shall
affect or impair any act done or right accruing, accrued or acquired, or
any penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred prior to the time when
this chapter shall take effect, under or by virtue of the provision or
provisions of the vehicle and traffic law, as in force immediately prior
to the time this chapter shall take effect, but the same may be
asserted, enforced, prosecuted or inflicted, as fully and to the same
extent as if this chapter shall not have taken effect.

2. An act of the legislature of the year nineteen hundred fifty-nine
or nineteen hundred sixty which, in form, adds or purports to add a new
article, section, subdivision or other provision of law to the vehicle
and traffic law, as in force immediately prior to the time this chapter
shall take effect, shall be legally effective notwithstanding the repeal
of such law by this chapter and 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 respective position in regard to and as
modifying the effect of the corresponding provision or provisions of
this chapter.

3. Any act of the legislature of the year nineteen hundred fifty-nine
or nineteen hundred sixty which, in form, amends or repeals or purports
to amend or repeal any provision or provisions of the former vehicle and
traffic law shall be legally effective notwithstanding the repeal of
such former vehicle and traffic law by this chapter and shall be
construed as an amendment or repeal as the case may be, of the
corresponding provision or provisions of this chapter irrespective of
whether such provision or provisions are contained in this chapter in
one or more than one article, section, subdivision or other part thereof
and such corresponding provision or provisions shall be deemed and
construed to be amended, modified, changed or repealed as though the
same had been expressly and in terms so amended or repealed.

4. Reference in any act of the legislature of the year nineteen
hundred fifty-nine or nineteen hundred sixty to an existing article,
section, subdivision or other provision of the vehicle and traffic law,
as in force immediately prior to the time this chapter shall take
effect, shall be deemed and construed to refer to the corresponding
article, section, subdivision or other provision of such law, as
renumbered, modified or amended by this chapter.

5. The provisions of this chapter in so far as they are substantially
the same as the existing provisions of the vehicle and traffic law shall
be construed as a continuation of the provisions of the former vehicle
and traffic law and not as new enactments.

6. This chapter shall not affect pending actions or proceedings, civil
or criminal, but the same may be prosecuted or defended in the same
manner and with the same effect as though this chapter had not been
passed.

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