§ 16-1608 Reincorporation of certain villages confirmed. All villages
in the state incorporated by special laws and subject to their
provisions which have attempted to reincorporate under the provisions of
chapter four hundred and fourteen of the laws of eighteen hundred and
ninety-seven and the acts amendatory thereof, between July first,
eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and January first, nineteen hundred
and four, or under the provisions of chapter sixty-four of the laws of
nineteen hundred and nine to the date of the adoption of this chapter,
and which have held their elections, elected their officers and
conducted their municipal affairs under or agreeably or substantially
under or substantially agreeable to the provisions of said law for the
period of one year, or longer are hereby declared to be regularly and
duly incorporated villages under this chapter; and, so far as any
defects, omissions or irregularities to the proceedings for such
reincorporation affect their annual and special elections and meetings
and their acts and proceedings at such elections and meetings and the
election of their mayors and their other village officers and all the
acts and proceedings of their boards of trustees and all the acts and
proceedings of their officers, their said annual and special elections
and meetings and the election of their mayors and trustees and their
other village officers and all acts and proceedings of their boards of
trustees and all the acts and proceedings of their officers, are hereby
declared to be legal and valid; and so far as any defects, omissions or
irregularities in their proceedings for such reincorporation affect the
title to the offices held by their mayors, trustees and other officers,
their said mayors, trustees and other officers are hereby declared to be
legally holding and entitled to their offices de jure until the
expiration thereof as provided by this chapter.

This section shall not affect any action or proceeding now pending in
any court.