Statutes | Hopi Criminal Code Title III Chapter 1 ยง 3.1.5 | 2020
A. The provisions of this code shall not apply or extend to any offense committed prior to the effective date of this Code. The provisions of law in force prior to the enactment of this Code shall remain in full force and effect in regard to any offense committed before the effective date of this Code.
B. Except as otherwise provided by law, the procedure governing accusation, prosecution, conviction and punishment of offenders and offenses is not regulated by this Code but by the rules of criminal procedure.
C. This Code does not affect any power conferred by law upon a courtmartial or other military authority or officer, or conferred upon the United States Department of Justice, to prosecute or punish conduct and offenders violating military codes or laws, or U.S. federal laws, nor any power conferred by law to impose or inflict punishment for contempt.
D. This Code does not bar, suspend or otherwise affect any right or liability to damages, penalty, forfeiture or other remedy authorized by law to be recovered or enforced in a civil action regardless of whether the conduct involved in the proceeding constitutes an offense defined in this Code.
E. Except as otherwise expressly provided, or unless the context otherwise requires, the provisions of this Code shall govern the construction of and punishment of any offense defined outside this title.