New York Second Class Cities Law Section 4 - Application of chapter.

 4. Application  of chapter. A provision of this chapter shall apply,
  according to its term, only  to  a  city  of  the  state  which  on  the
  thirty-first  day  of  December, nineteen hundred and twenty-three was a
  city of the second class, until such provision is superseded pursuant to
  the municipal home rule law, was superseded pursuant to the former  city
  home  rule  law  or  is or was otherwise changed, repealed or superseded
  pursuant to law.

Last modified: February 3, 2019