Chapter 282 – Express Repeal of Certain Acts and Resolves Chapter omitted.]
Section 1 – Designation as General Laws; Citation; Effective Date
Section 1. This act shall not in any citation or enumeration of the statutes be reckoned as one of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty, but may be designated as the General Laws, adding the number of the chapter and section when necessary, and shall take effect from and after December thirty-first, nineteen hundred […]
Section 2 – Construction of General Laws as Continuation of Former Acts
Section 2. The provisions of the General Laws, so far as they are the same as those of existing statutes, shall be construed as a continuation thereof and not as new enactments, and a reference in a statute which has not been repealed to provisions of law which are revised and re-enacted herein shall be […]
Section 3 – Repealed or Superseded Law; Effect of Repeal of Law by General Laws
Section 3. The repeal of a law by this act shall not revive a law heretofore repealed or superseded, nor an office heretofore abolished.
Section 4 – Rights Accrued or Liability Incurred and Actions Commenced; Effect of Repeal of Law by General Laws; Probate Appeals
Section 4. The repeal of a law by this act shall not affect any act done, ratified or confirmed, any liability incurred, or any right accrued or established, or any action, suit or proceeding commenced or had in a civil case, before the repeal takes effect, but the proceedings in such case shall, when necessary, […]
Section 5 – Punishment, Penalty or Forfeiture Incurred; Effect of Repeal of Law by General Laws
Section 5. The repeal of a law by this act shall not affect any punishment, penalty or forfeiture incurred under such law, except that any provision of the General Laws by which a punishment, penalty or forfeiture is mitigated may be extended and applied to any judgment pronounced after said repeal.
Section 6 – Pending Actions, Suits or Prosecutions; Effect of Repeal of Law by General Laws
Section 6. The repeal of a law by this act shall not affect any action, suit or prosecution pending at the time of the repeal for an offence committed, or for the recovery of a penalty or forfeiture incurred, under any of the laws repealed, except that the proceedings therein shall, when necessary, conform to […]
Section 7 – Tenure of Office Holders; Effect of Repeal of Law by General Laws
Section 7. Whoever, when said repeal takes effect, holds an office under any of the laws repealed shall continue to hold it according to the tenure thereof, unless it is abolished or unless a different provision relative thereto is made by the General Laws.
Section 8 – Salary or Compensation of Incumbent; Effect of Repeal of Law by General Laws
Section 8. The salary or compensation of any incumbent of any office or position at the time when the General Laws take effect shall not be diminished thereby, notwithstanding the repeal therein of any act establishing such salary or compensation and notwithstanding that the General Laws establish a different salary or compensation for the office […]
Section 9 – Statutory Time Periods; Effect of Repeal of Law by General Laws
Section 9. If a limitation or period of time prescribed in any of the acts repealed for acquiring a right, barring a remedy or any other purpose has begun to run, and the same or a similar limitation is prescribed in the General Laws, the time of limitation shall continue to run and shall have […]