Penal Code of the State of New York, as Amended To, and Including, 1887

upon offenders; nor any power conferred by law upon any public body, tribunal or officers, to impose or inflict punishment for a contempt; nor any provisions of the laws relating to apprentices, bastards, disorderly persons, Indians and vagrants, except so far as any provisions therein are inconsistent with this Code.

§ 725. Certain statutes continuing in force. Nothing in this Code affects any of the provisions of the following statutes; but such statutes are recognized as continuing in force, notwithstanding the provisions of this Code; except so far as they have been repealed or affected by subsequent laws;

1. All acts incorporating municipal corporations, and acts amending acts of incorporation or charters of such corporation, or providing for the election or appointment of officers therein, or defining the powers and duties of such officers;

2. All acts relating to emigrants or other passengers in vessels coming from foreign countries, except as provided in section 626 of this Code;

3. All acts for the punishment of intoxication or the suppression of intemperance, or regulating the sale or disposition of intoxicating or spirituous liquors ;

4. All acts defining and providing for the punishment of offenses, and not defined and made punishable by this Code.

§ 726. General repeal. All acts and parts of acts which are inconsistent with the provisions of this act are repealed, so far as they impose any punishment for crime, except as herein provided.

§ 727. When act to take effect. This act shall take effect on the first day of December, eighteen hundred and eighty-two. When construed in connection with other statutes, it must be deemed to have been enacted on the fourth day of January, eighteen hundred and eighty-one; so that any statute enacted after that day is to have the same effect as if it had been enacted after this Code.

§ 728. Repeal of provisions must be express. No provision of this Code, or any part thereof, shall be deemed repealed, altered or amended by the passage of any subsequent statute inconsistent therewith, unless such statute shall explicitly refer thereto and directly repeal, alter or amend this Code accordingly.