Section 202. Application and saving clause

Any work or proceeding initiated
  under  any  existing law which is repealed through the enactment of this
  chapter shall be continued legally to  its  termination  and  conclusion
  subject  to  the  provisions  of  and  in  accordance with the procedure
  prescribed by such law.  It is the intent that  upon  the  enactment  of
  this  chapter into law all proceedings undertaken thereafter relative to
  the navigable waters of the state, as defined in this chapter, shall  be
  administered  under  the authority of and by the provisions contained in
  this chapter. Upon all waters where the United States  authorities  have
  established active control of navigation, any part of this chapter which
  is  contrary to or in conflict with the United States navigation law, or
  with  regulations  issued  pursuant   thereto,   shall   be   considered
  inoperative  and  the  pertinent  part  of  the  United  States  law  or
  regulation shall apply. It is the intent upon enactment of this  chapter
  that no provision hereof shall affect or impair in any manner whatsoever
  any provision of chapter two hundred eighty-five of the laws of nineteen
  hundred  forty.  If  any  clause,  sentence,  paragraph  or part of this
  chapter shall, for any reason 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 or part thereof, directly involved in
  the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered. Nothing
  contained  in  this  chapter  shall be construed to abridge the terms of
  office of the board of commissioners of pilots in the city of New  York;
  nor to limit or restrict the powers of such board under article six, nor
  to  confer  a  power  or  impose  a  duty upon the commissioner relating
  thereto.