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v. Farley, (stating statutes that "relate to the same subject" should be "construed as one system governed by one spirit and policy").

(stating that related statutes “must be construed as one system governed by one spirit and policy”).

40 PLANNED PARENTHOOD V. KRISTIN MAYES/HAZELRIGG VICE CHIEF JUSTICE TIMMER, joined by CHIEF JUSTICE BRUTINEL

(noting that courts look to the “whole system of related statutes”).

(courts construe statutes relating to the same subject together and seek to achieve consistency).

); Antonin Scalia & Bryan A. Garner, Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts 252–55 (2012) (addressing the related-statutes canon and the need to read statutes relating to the same subject together).

(noting courts construe statutes relating to the same subject together and seek to achieve consistency).

(noting courts construe statutes relating to the same subject together and seek to achieve consistency).

(“[A] statute should be explained in conjunction with other statutes to the end that they may be harmonious and consistent.”).

7 DBT YUMA V. YUMA CO. Opinion of the Court (1970) (“If reasonably practical, a statute should be explained in conjunction with other statutes to the end that they may be harmonious and consistent.”)

(explaining that related statutes should be harmonized).

making that definition equally applicable to “disfigurement” as used in § 13-1204(A)(3), the provision we address here.

(in absence of express repeal or amendment, later enacted statute held to have been enacted in accord with legislative policies in earlier statutes); ¶ 19 , (presumption that the legislature knows existing laws when it