TITLE 73

GENERAL CODE PROVISIONS

CHAPTER 4

FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION PROTECTED

73-403.  Applicability. (1) This chapter applies to all state laws and local ordinances and the implementation of those laws and ordinances, whether statutory or otherwise, and whether enacted or adopted before, on or after the effective date of this chapter.

(2)  State laws that are enacted or adopted on or after the effective date of this chapter are subject to this chapter unless the law explicitly excludes application by reference to this chapter.

(3)  This chapter shall not be construed to authorize any government to burden any religious belief.

History:

[73-403, added 2000, ch. 133, sec. 2, p. 353.]