1-201 - Construction of act of reconsolidation.

§ 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 This chapter shall  be  construed  as  a  continuation  and  re-enactment  of the provisions  repealed by article  nineteen  hereof  as  such  provisions  existed  on  December thirty-first, nineteen hundred sixty-two.    2.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sixty-four  which  in  form  amends  or  repeals  or  purports  to  amend  or  repeal  any provision or provisions repealed by  article  nineteen  of  this   chapter   shall   be   legally   effective  notwithstanding  the repeal of such provision or provisions and shall be 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 of  this  chapter,  and  such  corresponding provisions shall be construed  to  be  amended,  modified,  changed  or  repealed  as though they had been expressly and in terms so  amended or repealed.    4.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any  act  of  the  legislature of the year nineteen hundred sixty-three or nineteen hundred  sixty-four, to a provision repealed by article nineteen of this chapter,  as in force immediately before the time this chapter shall take  effect,  shall  be  construed  to  refer  to  the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.