It's stricter certainly in the sense that you've gone from a code to a set of laws, and I guess in the writing down of those laws, one has to be more specific in the terminology that is used than you would be in a code.
In other words, a code can have some inherent flexibility of interpretation in it. When you reduce things to statute, you tend to have to minimize the amount of scope of interpretation as much as you can so that there is a common understanding to enhance capacity to actually adhere and comply with the law.