Section 131. Construction of act of reconsolidation

1. This chapter shall
  be construed as a continuation and reenactment of the provisions of  the
  real  property  law  repealed  by  article  21 hereof as such provisions
  existed on December 31, 1961.
    2. The repeal by this chapter of provisions of the real  property  law
  specified  in  article 21 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 1962 or 1963 which in form
  amends or repeals or purports  to  amend  or  repeal  any  provision  or
  provisions  of  the  real  property  law  repealed by article 21 of this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  be amended, modified, changed  or  repealed  as  though  they  had  been
  expressly and in terms so amended or repealed.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 31,
  1961, or in any act of the legislature of the year 1962 or  1963,  to  a
  provision  of  the  real  property  law  repealed  by article 21 of this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.