Sunset Provision

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A Sunset Provision is a statute measure that provides for the law to cease to be effective after a specified date, unless further legislative action is taken to extend it.



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2023

  • (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sunset_provision Retrieved:2023-8-24.
    • In public policy, a sunset provision or sunset clause is a measure within a statute, regulation or other law that provides for the law to cease to be effective after a specified date, unless further legislative action is taken to extend it. Unlike most laws that remain in force indefinitely unless they are amended or repealed, sunset provisions have a specified expiration date. This is not applicable in legal systems where the concept of desuetude applies.

2023

  • (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practice_of_law#History_and_future Retrieved:2023-8-24.
    • ... Arizona's statute criminalizing unauthorized practice of law was allowed to lapse from a sunset law in 1985. Rose suggests that legislative proposals to recriminalize the unauthorized practice of law have heretofore failed because of anti-lawyer sentiment in Arizona politics. <ref> Id. at 593. ...