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Legalese has stumped ordinary people trying to read legal documents for centuries.
If a law does not have an emergency preamble, it is typically effective 90 days after enactment.
We are often asked to produce the law or ordinance which prohibits more than a certain number of unrelated females from living together, as such an arrangement would be considered a brothel.
