Sec. 1. Whenever a statute or rule designates a board, bureau, commission, division, department, officer, agency, authority, or instrumentality of state government, or a political subdivision and the name is incorrectly stated, on the effective date of the statute or rule, or following the effective date, the rights, powers, duties, or liabilities placed with the board, bureau, commission, division, department, officer, agency, authority, or instrumentality were transferred to a different board, bureau, commission, division, department, officer, agency, authority, or instrumentality, then the named board, bureau, commission, division, department, officer, agency, authority, or instrumentality, whether correctly named in the statute or rule on its effective date or not, refers to the properly or correctly named or designated board, bureau, commission, division, department, officer, agency, authority, or instrumentality, or the one to which the rights, powers, duties, and liabilities were transferred.

Formerly: Acts 1945, c.14, s.1. As amended by P.L.1-1989, SEC.10.