§ 16-18-3-5 — Construction of act

Senate enrolled act 24 of the 1993 regular
session of the general assembly shall be construed as a recodification
of prior health and hospital law. If the literal meaning of senate
enrolled act 24 of the 1993 regular session of the general assembly
would result in a substantive change in the prior health and hospital
law, the difference shall be construed as a typographical, spelling, or
other clerical error that must be corrected by:
(1) inserting, deleting, or substituting words, punctuation, or other
matters of style in senate enrolled act 24 of the 1993 regular
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 the 1993
regular session of the general assembly in a manner that does not result
in a substantive change in the law. The principle of statutory
construction that a court must apply the literal meaning of an act if the
literal meaning of the act is unambiguous does not apply to senate
enrolled act 24 of the 1993 regular session of the general assembly to
the extent that senate enrolled act 24 of the 1993 regular session of the
general assembly is not substantively identical to the prior health and
hospital law.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.1.