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§ 27. Day; mode of computing days; night-time. — A calendar day includes the time from midnight to midnight. Sunday or any day of the week specifically mentioned means a calendar day. A number of days specified as a period from a certain day within which or after or before which an act is authorized or requised to be done means such number of calendar days exclusive of the calendar day from which the reckoning is made. Sunday or a public holiday other than a half-holiday must be excluded from the reckoning if it is the last day or an intervening day of any such period of two days. In computing any specified number of days, weeks or months from a specified event, the day upon which the event happens is deemed the day from which the reckoning is made. The day from which any specified number of days, weeks or months of time is reckoned shall be excluded in making the reckoning.

Night-time includes the time from sunset to sunrise. Penal Code, §§ 261 and 500.

Code Civ. Pro., § 788.

§ 28. Standard time.-The standard time throughout this state is that of the seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west from Greenwich, and all courts and public officers, and legal and official proceedings, shall be regulated thereby. Any act required by or in pursuance of law to be performed at or within a prescribed time, shall be performed according to such standard time. R. S., 2097, pt. 1, ch. 19, tit. 1, § 5.

L. 1884. ch. 14.

§ 29. Civil and criminal codes.-The term civil code means the code of civil procedure. The term criminal code means the code of criminal procedure.

8 30. Laws of England and of the colony of New York.— A statute of England or Great Britain shall not be deemed to have had any force or effect in this state since May 1, 1788. Acts of the legislature of the colony of

New York shall not be deemed to have had any force or effect in this state since December 29, 1828.

The resolutions of the congress of such colony and of the convention of the state of New York, shall not be deemed to be the laws of this state hereafter.

R S., 125, L. 1828, ch. 21, §§ 3 and 4.

8 31. Limiting the effect of repealing statutes.-The repeal hereafter or by this chapter of any provision of a statute, which repeals any provision of a prior statute, does not revive such prior provision. The repeal hereafter or by this chapter of any provision of a statute, which amends a provision of a prior statute, leaves such prior provision in force unless the amendatory statute be a substantial re-enactment of the statute amended. The repeal of a statute or part thereof shall not affect or impair any act done or right accruing, accrued or acquired, or liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred prior to the time such repeal takes effect, but the same may be asserted, enforced, prosecuted or inflicted, as fully and to the same extent as if such repeal had not been effected; and all actions and proceedings, civil or criminal, commenced under or by virtue of any provision of a statute so repealed, and pending immediately prior to the taking effect of such repeal, may be prosecuted and defended to final effect in the same manner as they might if such provisions were not so repealed.

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$ 32. Existing laws included in revision not to be construed as new enactments.- The provisions of any chapter of the revision of the general laws, of which this chapter is a part, so far as they are substantially the same as those of laws existing at the time such chapter takes effect, shall be construed as a continuation of such laws, modified or amended according to the language employed in such provisions, and not as new enactments.

References in laws not repealed to provisions of law which are incorporated into any such chapter and repealed shall be construed as applying to the provisions so incorporated.

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§ 33. Effect of revision upon laws passed at same session or before revision takes effect.- No provision of any chapter of the revision of the general laws, of which this chapter is a part, shall supersede or repeal by implication any law passed at the same session of the legislature at which any such chapter was enacted, or passed after the enactment of any such chapter and before it shall have taken effect; and an amendatory law passed at such session or at any subsequent session begun before any such chapter takes effect, shall not be deemed repealed, unless specifically designated in the repealing schedule of such chapter.

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§ 34. Alterations of titles and head notes.- If the title of any article or other division of a statute, or the head note of a section shall be amended or repealed in the body of the statute, or if a new article or other division having a title, or a new section having a new head note be added to a statute, the corresponding title or head note, if any, in an abstract of contents at the beginning of the article or other division of the statute, shall be deemed to be correspondingly amended or repealed, although there be no express reference thereto.

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§ 35. Laws repealed.-Of the laws enumerated in the schedule hereto annexed, that portion specified in the last column is repealed.

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§ 36. Time of taking effect.- This chapter shall take effect immediately.

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THE GENERAL CORPORATION LAW.

LAWS 1892, CHAPTER 687.

An act to amend the general corporation law.

APPROVED by the Governor May 18, 1892. Passed, three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

The general corporation law is amended to read as follows, to take effect immediately :

CHAPTER XXXV OF THE GENERAL LAWS.

THE GENERAL CORPORATION LAW.

SECTION 1. Short title.

2. Classification of corporations.

3. Definitions.

4. Qualifications of incorporators.

5. Filing and recording certificates of incorporation.

6. Corporations of the same name prohibited.

7. Amended and supplemental certificates.

8. Lost or destroyed certificates.

9. Certificate and other papers as evidence.

10. Prohibition of other than statutory powers.

11. Grant of general powers.

12. Limitation of amount of property of a non-stock corporation.

13. Acquisition of additional real property.

14. Acquisition of property in other states.

15. Certificate of authority of a foreign corporation.

16. Proof to be filed before granting certificate.

17. Acquisition of real property in this state by certain foreign corporations.

18. Acquisition by foreign corporations of real property in this state upon judicial sales.

19. Prohibition of banking powers.

20. Qualification of members as voters.

21. Proxies.

22. Challenges.

23. Effect of failure to elect directors.

24. Mode of calling special election of directors.

25. Mode of conducting special election of directors.

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