A statute which is reenacted, revised or amended is intended to be a continuation of the prior statute and not a new enactment, so far as it is the same as the prior statute.
Iowa Code § 4.10
Reenactment of statutes — continuation
[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §4.10]
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