§ 413 Pleading private statute.

If a criminal case involves a private statute (a law that applies to a specific person, group, or situation rather than the general public), the person writing up the charges doesn't have to spell out all the details of that law. They just need to give the name of the statute and the date it was passed.

Once that information is given, the court automatically accepts that the law exists and knows what it says. This is called "judicial notice." It means nobody has to bring in copies of the law or prove it's real. The court treats it as an established fact based on just the title and passage date.

This rule basically saves time and paperwork. Instead of requiring lawyers to quote entire statutes word for word in their filings, they can reference the law by name and date, and the court will look up and apply the law on its own.