§  220-a. Corporations continued. Corporations heretofore formed under  chapter  five  hundred  seventy  of  the  laws of eighteen hundred  ninety-five,  chapter four hundred forty of the laws of nineteen hundred  twenty-six, or under article twenty of the membership corporations  law,  are  hereby  continued  without  change  of  corporate  status, power or  obligation, under the provisions of this article.