No statute is retroactive unless expressly declared therein.
A.R.S. § 1-244
Retroactivity of statutes
Applied in 43 court decisions — leading case State v. Sweet (1985)
Most recently applied in State v. Pry (January 2025)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Arizona State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Arizona statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.