§ 118. References in laws and documents. Reference in any general,
special or local law, rule, regulation or public document to an existing
article, section, subdivision or other provision of article four or
article five of the civil service law, as in force immediately prior to
July first, nineteen hundred forty-eight, or July first, nineteen
hundred fifty-six, shall be deemed and construed to refer to the
corresponding section, subdivision or other provision of this article,
as added by chapter eight hundred forty-one of the laws of nineteen
hundred forty-seven, or as amended or supplemented thereafter, or
amended by this act, as the case may be.