Court Opinion

ID: 9760490
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 00:57:37.859638+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:12.881964
License: Public Domain

LARSEN, Justice,
concurring.
I join in the result. However, I take issue with the majority’s gratuitous discourse on the word “habit.” The Statutory Construction Act provides that “[w]hen the words of a statute are clear and free from all ambiguity, the letter of it is not to be disregarded under the pretext of pursuing its spirit.” 1 Pa.C.S.A. § 1921. Since the words of the statute herein are clear, our inquiry ends there. To write about an “apparent thrust” concept does a disservice to the above-cited, time honored rule of construction.
PAPADAKOS, J., joins in this concurring opinion.