<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 1-12. - Code and new ordinances do not affect prior offenses, rights.</div>
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               (a)
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               Nothing in this Code or an ordinance adopting this Code shall affect any offense or
               act committed or done; any penalty or forfeiture incurred; any contract or right established
               or accruing; 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; as to any act done; any penalty, forfeiture
               or punishment incurred; 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; 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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               Similar provisions applicable to state statutes, G.S. 153A-2, 164-3 et seq.
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