Nothing contained in this local law shall affect or impair the rights or privileges of officers or employees of the city or of any agency or authority existing at the time this local law shall take effect, or any provision of law in force at the time when this local law shall take effect and not inconsistent with the provisions of this local law in relations to the personnel, ranks, grades, tenure of office, promotion, removal, pension and retirement rights, civil rights or any other rights or privileges of officers or employees of the city generally or officers or employees of any agency or authority.
If any provision or provisions of this local law are held to be invalid, ineffective, unconstitutional in whole or in part, or inapplicable to any person or situation, it is the purpose and intent of this local law that such determination shall not affect the validity, force and effect of any other provisions hereof.
All acts or laws or ordinances or parts thereof, so far as they are inconsistent with the provisions of this local law, are hereby repealed and are deemed superseded by this local law. [1]
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Editor's Note: Former Art. VIIA, Department of Buildings, which immediately followed this article, was deleted at time of adoption of Code; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I. Said article was again repealed 8-28-1995 by L.L. No. 11-1995. This local law was approved at a mandatory referendum on 11-7-1995.