<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 1-6. - Code and new ordinances do not affect prior offenses, rights, etc.</div>
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               (a)
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               Nothing in this Code or the ordinance adopting this Code shall affect any offense
               or act committed or done, or any penalty or forfeiture incurred, or any contract or
               right established or accruing, or any prosecution, suit or proceeding pending or any
               judgment rendered, before the effective date of this Code.
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               (b)
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               No new ordinance shall be construed to repeal a former ordinance as to any offense
               committed against the former ordinance or as to any act done, any penalty, forfeiture
               or punishment incurred, or any right accrued or claim arising under the former ordinance,
               or in any way whatever to affect any such offense or act so committed or done, or
               any penalty, forfeiture or punishment so incurred, or any right accrued, or claim
               arising before the new ordinance takes effect, save only that the proceedings thereafter
               had shall conform, so far as practicable, to the ordinance in force at the time of
               such proceedings.
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               (Code 1984, Â§ 1-6)
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            <p class="refstatelaw0" block_type="hang"><b>State Law referenceâ€” </b>
               Similar provisions applicable to state statutes, G.S. 153A-2, 164-3 et seq.
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