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Title 1 — General Provisions

Chapter 2 — Acts and Resolutions; Formalities of Enactment; Repeals; Sealing of Instruments

§ 109. Repeal of statutes as affecting existing liabilities

Statutory text

The repeal of any statute shall not have the effect to release or extinguish any penalty, forfeiture, or liability incurred under such statute, unless the repealing Act shall so expressly provide, and such statute shall be treated as still remaining in force for the purpose of sustaining any proper action or prosecution for the enforcement of such penalty, forfeiture, or liability. The expiration of a temporary statute shall not have the effect to release or extinguish any penalty, forfeiture, or liability incurred under such statute, unless the temporary statute shall so expressly provide, and such statute shall be treated as still remaining in force for the purpose of sustaining any proper action or prosecution for the enforcement of such penalty, forfeiture, or liability.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. 1 U. S. C., § —

    Pub. L. 80–388 · 61 Stat. 633

    Enacted · 1 U.S.C. § 109

    (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 635.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 635.)

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Credits

(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 635.)

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