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[CITE: 1USC109]

 
                       TITLE 1--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
  CHAPTER 2--ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS; FORMALITIES OF ENACTMENT; REPEALS; 
                         SEALING OF INSTRUMENTS
 
Sec. 109. Repeal of statutes as affecting existing liabilities

    The repeal of any statute 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. The expiration of a temporary statute 
shall not have the effect to release or extinguish any penalty, 
forfeiture, or liability incurred under such statute, unless the 
temporary statute 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.

(July 30, 1947, ch. 388, 61 Stat. 635.)
