Section 366. Saving clauses

1.  The  repeal of any provisions of this
  chapter, or the repeal of any provisions of any statute of the state  or
  local  law,  ordinance,  resolution  or  regulation  shall not affect or
  impair any act done, offense committed or  right  accruing,  accrued  or
  acquired,  or  liability,  penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred or
  imposed prior to the time of such repeal, but the same may  be  enjoyed,
  asserted,  enforced,  prosecuted  or  inflicted as fully and to the same
  extent and in the same  manner  as  if  such  provisions  had  not  been
  repealed.
    2.  Any  action  or  proceeding, civil or criminal, begun before April
  eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, under or  pursuant  to  or  by
  virtue of any provision of the tenement house law which is superseded by
  this  chapter  as in this chapter provided, may be prosecuted, conducted
  and completed in the same manner as if such law were not  so  superseded
  but continued to be fully effective.
    3.  No  action  or  proceeding, civil or criminal, pending at the time
  this chapter, as amended by the  laws  of  nineteen  hundred  forty-six,
  takes  effect,  brought  by  or  against a city or any agency or officer
  thereof, shall be affected or abated by the adoption of this chapter  as
  so  amended,  or by anything therein contained, and all such actions and
  proceedings may  be  continued  in  full  force  and  effect  under  the
  appropriate provisions of this chapter.
    4.  No  existing right or remedy of any kind shall be lost or impaired
  by reason of the adoption of  this  chapter  as  so  amended  unless  by
  specific  provision  of  a law which does not amend all articles of this
  chapter.
    5. Except as otherwise provided in subdivision six of  section  three,
  the  provisions  of  this chapter shall not operate to limit or decrease
  the power of any city to adopt local laws,  ordinances,  resolutions  or
  regulations  in  relation  to  any matter in respect to which such power
  would otherwise exist.
    6. The tenement house law shall, from and after the taking  effect  of
  this  chapter,  not  apply  to cities with a population of eight hundred
  thousand or more.