Bills designed to amend, revise, codify, or repeal a law:
1. Shall refer to the numbers of the sections or chapters of the Code or Code Supplement to be amended or repealed, but it is not necessary to refer to the sections or chapters in the title.
2. Shall refer to the session of the general assembly and the sections and chapters of the Acts to be amended if the bill relates to a section or sections of an Act not appearing in the Code or codified in a supplement to the Code.
3. All references to statutes shall be expressed in numerals, and if omitted the Code editor in preparing Acts for publication in the session laws shall supply the numerals.
4. The title to a bill shall contain a brief statement of the purpose of the bill, however all detail matters properly connected with the subject so expressed may be omitted from the title.
[C73, § 38; C97, § 41; S13, § 41-a, -b; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 47; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 3.1]
84 Acts, ch 1067, § 2; 90 Acts, ch 1168, § 2
Publication of bills, § 2.9
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