Opinion ID: 1165515
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Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Repeal of MDSO Statute

Text: (2) As previously noted, Proposition 8 added section 6331 to the Welfare and Institutions Code. The section declares inoperative the article within which section 6331 is contained, but fails to identify the text of that article. As we have explained, however, the entire article dealing with MDSOs was repealed in 1981 (Stats. 1981, ch. 928, § 2) and the Legislative Analyst observed in the voters' pamphlet that new section 6331 is superfluous and has no effect. (Ballot Pamp., supra, p. 55.) Assuming that this conclusion is correct, the section being a nullity, any procedural defect in adopting that section must be deemed harmless, especially in view of the severability clause (§ 10) in Proposition 8.