4.8  Irreconcilable statutes.

If statutes enacted at the same or different sessions of the legislature are irreconcilable, the statute latest in date of enactment* by the general assembly prevails. If provisions of the same Act are irreconcilable, the provision listed last in the Act prevails.

Section History: Early form

  [C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 4.8]

Footnotes

  *See Attorney General opinion, May 16, 1973

  Intent of general assembly that § 7E.6 govern compensation of members of boards, committees, commissions, or councils; see § 7E.6(8)


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