Section 45-54-10 - Disclaimer

(a) This chapter endeavorsto add to the Code of Alabama1975, all Pickens County local laws enacted after1978 and all Pickens County prior local laws that were amended or affected by alocal law enacted after 1978.(b) It is the purpose of this chapterto state currentapplicable law. To thisend:(1) This chapter shall notaffect the compensation, terms, pension and retirement benefits and rights, andother benefits and rights otherwise provided by law enacted prior to thecodification of this chapter.(2) A condition or requirementfor operation or effect of a law included in this chapter, including, but notlimited to, voter approval at a referendum, is not superseded by the inclusionof the law in this chapter, and such condition or requirement remains applicable.(3) This chapter shall not beconstrued as validating, reenacting, or enacting laws otherwise supersededor repealed by a legislative enactment.(4) This chapter shall have noeffect on any law that is not included or otherwise treated and that law shallhave the same effect as the law had prior to the codification of this chapter.

ve enactment.(4) This chapter shall have noeffect on any law that is not included or otherwise treated and that law shallhave the same effect as the law had prior to the codification of this chapter. The inclusion or exclusion of a law in this chapter is not an implication, inference, or presumption affectingthe validity of that law.(5) This chapter shall notaffect any existing right, remedy, or defense. As to all such cases, theapplicable laws in force at the adoption of this chapter shall continue inforce and application.(c)(1) Theclassification and organization of this chapter, the parts, sub-parts,sections, and other hierarchy units of this chapter, and the headings thereto, are made for the purposeof convenient referenceand orderly arrangement,and no implication, inference, or presumption of a legislative constructionshall be drawn therefrom.(2) Unless otherwiseprovided in this chapter, the descriptive headingsor catchlines immediately precedingor within the text of the varioushierarchy units, except the hierarchy unit numbers included in theheadings or catchlines immediately preceding the text of such units, do notconstitute part of the law, and shall in no manner limit or

ierarchy units, except the hierarchy unit numbers included in theheadings or catchlines immediately preceding the text of such units, do notconstitute part of the law, and shall in no manner limit or expand theconstruction of any such unit. Allhistorical citations and effective notes set out in this chapter are given forthe purpose of convenient reference, and do not constitute part of the law.