IC 16-18-3
    Chapter 3. Effect of Recodification by Senate Enrolled Act 24 ofthe 1993 Regular Session of the General Assembly

IC 16-18-3-1
"Prior health and hospital law" defined
    Sec. 1. As used in this chapter, "prior health and hospital law"refers to the statutes that are repealed or amended in senate enrolledact 24 of the 1993 regular session of the general assembly as thestatutes existed before the effective date of the applicable orcorresponding provision of senate enrolled act 24 of the 1993 regularsession of the general assembly.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.1.

IC 16-18-3-2
Purpose of act; operation and effect of prior health and hospitallaw
    Sec. 2. The purpose of senate enrolled act 24 of the 1993 regularsession of the general assembly is to recodify prior health andhospital law in a style that is clear, concise, and easy to interpret andapply. Except to the extent that:
        (1) senate enrolled act 24 of the 1993 regular session of thegeneral assembly is amended to reflect the changes made in aprovision of another bill that adds to, amends, or repeals aprovision in senate enrolled act 24 of the 1993 regular sessionof the general assembly; or
        (2) the minutes of meetings of the code revision commissionduring 1992 expressly indicate a different purpose;
the substantive operation and effect of the prior health and hospitallaw continue uninterrupted as if senate enrolled act 24 of the 1993regular session of the general assembly had not been enacted.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.1.

IC 16-18-3-3
Application
    Sec. 3. Subject to section 2 of this chapter, sections 4 through 7of this chapter shall be applied to the statutory construction of senateenrolled act 24 of the 1993 regular session of the general assembly.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.1.

IC 16-18-3-4
Preservation of rights, liabilities, penalties, violations, proceedings,indebtedness, and tax levies
    Sec. 4. Senate enrolled act 24 of the 1993 regular session of thegeneral assembly does not affect any:
        (1) rights or liabilities accrued;
        (2) penalties incurred;
        (3) violations committed;
        (4) proceedings begun;
        (5) bonds, notes, loans, or other forms of indebtedness issued,

incurred, or made; or
        (6) tax levies made;
before the effective date of senate enrolled act 24 of the 1993 regularsession of the general assembly (July 1, 1993). Those rights,liabilities, penalties, offenses, proceedings, bonds, notes, loans, otherforms of indebtedness, and tax levies continue and shall be imposedand enforced under prior health and hospital law as if senate enrolledact 24 of the 1993 regular session of the general assembly had notbeen enacted.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.1.

IC 16-18-3-5
Construction of act
    Sec. 5. Senate enrolled act 24 of the 1993 regular session of thegeneral assembly shall be construed as a recodification of priorhealth and hospital law. If the literal meaning of senate enrolled act24 of the 1993 regular session of the general assembly would resultin a substantive change in the prior health and hospital law, thedifference shall be construed as a typographical, spelling, or otherclerical error that must be corrected by:
        (1) inserting, deleting, or substituting words, punctuation, orother matters of style in senate enrolled act 24 of the 1993regular session of the general assembly; and
        (2) using any other rule of statutory construction;
as necessary or appropriate to apply senate enrolled act 24 of the1993 regular session of the general assembly in a manner that doesnot result in a substantive change in the law. The principle ofstatutory construction that a court must apply the literal meaning ofan act if the literal meaning of the act is unambiguous does not applyto senate enrolled act 24 of the 1993 regular session of the generalassembly to the extent that senate enrolled act 24 of the 1993 regularsession of the general assembly is not substantively identical to theprior health and hospital law.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.1.

IC 16-18-3-6
References to repealed statutes
    Sec. 6. Subject to section 7 of this chapter, a reference in a statuteor rule to a statute that is repealed and replaced in the same or adifferent form in senate enrolled act 24 of the 1993 regular sessionof the general assembly shall be treated after the effective date of thenew provision as a reference to the new provision.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.1.

IC 16-18-3-7
Construction of citation references to include references to priorlaw
    Sec. 7. A citation reference in senate enrolled act 24 of the 1993regular session of the general assembly to another provision of senateenrolled act 24 of the 1993 regular session of the general assembly

shall be treated as including a reference to the provision of priorhealth and hospital law that is substantively equivalent to theprovision of senate enrolled act 24 of the 1993 regular session of thegeneral assembly that is referred to by the citation reference.
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.1.