Section 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  repealed by article  nineteen  hereof  as  such  provisions  existed  on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  purports  to  amend  or  repeal  any provision or provisions repealed by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  changed  or  repealed  as though they had been expressly and in terms so
  amended or repealed.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  sixty-four, to a provision repealed by article nineteen of this chapter,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.