Any conduct carried out prior to the effectiveness of this Code in violation to the provisions set forth in the Penal Code hereby repealed or of any other special law of-criminal nature shall be governed by the laws in effect at the time of the commission of the act.\nIf this Code abolishes any crime, no proceeding shall be initiated, legal actions in progress shall be stayed, and any condemning sentence shall be declared null and void, and the person shall be released. The change of the name of-crime does not mean that the type of crime has been abolished.\nHistory —June 18, 2004, No. 149, § 308, eff. May 1, 2005.
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