Words used in this Part 2 in the past or present tense include the future as well as the past or present; words use in the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter; the singular number includes the plural and the plural the singular; the word "person" includes a corporation, joint-stock company or voluntary association as well as a natural person; "writing" includes printing, printed or typewritten matter; "oath" includes affirmation or declaration; "signature" or "subscription" includes "mark," when the person cannot write, his name being written near it. The following terms also named in this Part 2 have the signification attached to them in this section, unless otherwise apparent from the context:
An attorney of the Supreme Court of this state, duly licensed
to practice as such.
Includes every association having any corporate rights, whether
created by special acts of the legislature or under general laws.
The repeal of a law or any part of it specified
in the annexed schedule shall not affect or impair any act done or
right accruing, accrued or acquired, or liability, forfeiture or penalty
incurred prior to September 1, 1931, under or by virtue of any law
so repealed, but the same may be asserted, enforced, prosecuted or
inflicted, as fully and to the same extent as if such law had not
been repealed; nor shall this Part 2 create a vacancy in any office
or employment. All actions and proceedings commenced under or by virtue
of the laws so repealed and pending on September 1, 1931, may be prosecuted
in the same manner and with the same effect as they might under laws
then existing, unless it shall be otherwise specially provided. Nothing
in this Part 2 contained shall be construed as affecting any existing
provision of law so far as provisions apply to any portion of this
state, other than the City of Albany.
The provisions of this Part 2, so far as they
are substantially the same as those of laws existing prior to September
1, 1910, shall be construed as a continuation of such laws, modified
or amended, according to the language employed in this Part 2, and
not as a new enactment; a reference in laws not repealed to provisions
of law incorporated into this Part 2 and repealed shall be construed
as applying to the provisions so incorporated.
The laws or parts thereof, specified in the
schedule hereto annexed, and all acts amendatory thereof or supplemental
thereto in force when this Part 2 takes effect are hereby repealed.
