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Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes (Last Updated: January 27, 2015) |
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Title1 GENERAL PROVISIONS |
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PARTV. STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION |
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CHAPTER19. RULES OF CONSTRUCTION |
| SUBCHAPTER A. CONSTRUCTION OF WORDS AND PHRASES |
| § 1901. Rules of interpretation. |
| § 1902. Number; gender; tense. |
| § 1903. Words and phrases. |
| § 1904. Numerals. |
| § 1905. Joint authority; quorum. |
| § 1906. Bonds. |
| § 1907. Uniform standard time. |
| § 1908. Computation of time. |
| § 1909. Time; publication for successive weeks. |
| § 1910. Time; computation of months. |
| SUBCHAPTER B. CONSTRUCTION OF STATUTES |
| § 1921. Legislative intent controls. |
| § 1922. Presumptions in ascertaining legislative intent. |
| § 1923. Grammar and punctuation of statutes. |
| § 1924. Construction of titles, preambles, provisos, exceptions and headings. |
| § 1925. Constitutional construction of statutes. |
| § 1926. Presumption against retroactive effect. |
| § 1927. Construction of uniform laws. |
| § 1928. Rule of strict and liberal construction. |
| § 1929. Penalties no bar to civil remedies. |
| § 1930. Penalties for each offense. |
| § 1931. Intent to defraud. |
| § 1932. Statutes in pari materia. |
| § 1933. Particular controls general. |
| § 1934. Irreconcilable clauses in the same statute. |
| § 1935. Irreconcilable statutes passed by same General Assembly. |
| § 1936. Irreconcilable statutes passed by different General Assemblies. |
| § 1937. References to statutes and regulations. |
| § 1938. References to public bodies and public officers. |
| § 1939. Use of comments and reports. |
| SUBCHAPTER C. AMENDATORY STATUTES |
| § 1951. Interpretation of amendatory statutes. |
| § 1952. Effect of separate amendments on code provisions enacted by same General Assembly. |
| § 1953. Construction of amendatory statutes. |
| § 1954. Merger of subsequent amendments. |
| § 1955. Two or more amendments to same provision, one overlooking the other. |
| § 1956. Repeal of amendatory statutes and original statutes subsequently amended. |
| § 1957. Ineffective provisions not revived by reenactment in amendatory statutes. |
| SUBCHAPTER D. REENACTMENTS |
| § 1961. Effect of reenactment on original statute. |
| § 1962. Repeal and reenactment. |
| § 1963. Effect of reenactment on intervening statutes. |
| SUBCHAPTER E. REPEALING STATUTES |
| § 1971. Implied repeal by later statute. |
| § 1972. Nonexistence of reason for statute does not effect repeal. |
| § 1973. No implied repeal by nonuser. |
| § 1974. Effect of separate repeals on code provisions by same General Assembly. |
| § 1975. Effect of repeal on limitations. |
| § 1976. Effect of repeal on rights, et cetera. |
| § 1977. Repeal does not revive repealed statute. |
| § 1978. Repeal as obsolete does not affect substantive rights. |
| SUBCHAPTER F. DEFINITIONS OF WORDS AND PHRASES |
| § 1991. Definitions. |
Notation
Enactment. Chapter 19 was added December 6, 1972, P.L.1339, No.290, effective immediately.