§ 50. Legislative intent. 1. It is the intention of the legislature by this chapter to provide for carrying into effect provisions of article nine of the constitution and the statute of local governments and to enable local governments to adopt and amend local laws for the purpose of fully and completely exercising the powers […]
§ 51. Liberal construction. This chapter shall be liberally construed. The powers herein granted shall be in addition to all other powers granted to local governments by other provisions of law. A permissive procedure authorized by this chapter shall not be deemed to be exclusive or to prohibit the use of any other procedure authorized […]
§ 52. Judicial notice. Courts shall take judicial notice of all local laws and of rules and regulations adopted pursuant thereto.
§ 53. No repeal by implication. It is not intended by this chapter to repeal by implication any existing provision of law and no law shall be deemed repealed thereby unless expressly provided for therein.
§ 54. Grants of specific powers not restrictive. A grant of a specific power by this chapter to one or more local governments shall not operate to restrict the meaning of a general grant of power by this chapter to the same or any other local government or to exclude other powers comprehended in such […]
§ 55. Effect of unconstitutionality in part. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this chapter 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 […]
§ 56. Existing charters and other laws continued. 1. All existing valid provisions of laws, charters and local laws not specifically repealed by this chapter shall continue in force until lawfully repealed, amended, modified or superseded. 2. A reference in any law, ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation or document to any provision of the city home […]
§ 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 […]
§ 58. Laws repealed. Of the laws enumerated in the schedule hereto annexed, that portion specified in the last column is hereby repealed.
§ 59. Time of taking effect. This chapter shall take effect January first, nineteen hundred sixty-four, in the event that the amendment of the constitution of the state of New York proposing a new article nine, in relation to a bill of rights and home rule powers for local governments, shall have been approved and […]
