The provisions appearing in this code, so far as they are the same or substantially the same as those of ordinances existing at the time of the effective date of this code, shall be considered as continuations thereof and not as new enactments.
(1973 Code, § 1-3)
Statutory reference:
Repeal of statutes and reenactment thereof in the same or substantially the same terms, see M.S. § 645.38