When a law is repealed and its provisions are at the same time reenacted in the same or substantially the same terms by the repealing law, the earlier law shall be construed as continued in active operation. All rights and liabilities incurred under such earlier law are preserved and may be enforced.
Minn. Stat. § 645.37
REPEAL AND REENACTMENT.
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case State v. Smith (2017)
Most recently applied in State v. Smith (July 2017)
1941 c 492 s 37
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