PUBLIC GENERAL LAWS

ARTICLE L

RULES OF INTERPRETATION.

2A. Repeal of statute not to release penalty, etc., incurred thereunder, unless

so provided.

1.*

1912, ch. 365.

2A. The repeal of any statute "including the repeal of any part of
the Code of Public General Laws or of the Code of Public Local Laws"
shall not have the effect to release or extinguish any penalty, forfeiture
or liability incurred under such statute, unless the repealing act shall
so expressly provide, and such statute shall be treated as still remaining
in force for the purpose of sustaining any proper action or prosecution
for the enforcement of such penalty, forfeiture or liability.
See article 80A.

7.

This section applied so as to entitle more than one surety to sue under
article 8, section 5. Fuhrman v. Fuhrman, 115 Md. 443.

12.

Cited but not construed in Weber v. State, 116 Md. 410.

14.

Article 23, section 219, relating to licenses of insurance brokers, held not
to apply to corporations; the rule of construction announced in this section
cannot override the legislative intent. Sbehan v. Taueubaum, Son & Co.,
121 Md. 286.

*The act of 1914, chapter 16, legalizes the Annotated Code of Maryland, edited
by George P. Bagby, in three volumes, and makes it evidence of the Public Gen-
eral Laws of the state.