Hahn v. City of Ortonville

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• holding that a reviewing court must consider contemporaneous statutes relating to the same subject matter in order to clarify a statute's legislative intent
• holding that court can consider other statutes on same subject to clarify statute’s meaning
• considering the use of \person\ in other statutes, to determine whether it included municipal corporations
• considering the use of “person” in other statutes, to determine whether it included municipal corporations
• finding three statutes “supplementary to one another and . . . integral parts of a unified plan” despite being “enacted at different times”
• under doctrine of in pari materia, different legislative acts involving single subject must be construed to avoid irreconcilable differences and conflicts

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