Sec. 4-a. The repeal of any statute or part thereof shall not have the effect to release or relinquish any penalty, forfeiture, or liability incurred under such statute or any part thereof, unless the repealing act shall so expressly provide, and such statute and part thereof shall be treated as still remaining in force for the purpose of instituting or sustaining any proper action or prosecution for the enforcement of such penalty, forfeiture or liability.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 8.4a
Effect of repeal
Applied in 19 court decisions — leading case United States v. United States Coin & Currency (1971)
Most recently applied in 326 Mich. App. 366 - Smith Trust and Estate v. Erickson Retirement Communities (October 2018)
Add. 1931, Act 25, Imd
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: Michigan Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Michigan statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.