Section 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  repealed  by  this  chapter  shall  continue  in  force  until  lawfully
  repealed, amended, modified or superseded.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 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  fifty-one-a  through  fifty-one-f  of  the  town  law,  repealed by this
  chapter, in force at the time this chapter takes effect, shall be deemed
  and construed to refer to the corresponding provision or  provisions  of
  the  municipal  home  rule law as continued, modified or amended by this
  chapter.