When any office is abolished by the repeal of any Act, and such Act is not in substance reenacted or continued in either of the Codes, such office ceases at the time the Codes take effect.
§ 7.Construction of repeal as to certain offices
Preliminary Provisions · Enacted 1872 · no amendments on record · Last verified July 28, 2026
In one sentenceSection 7 provides that when a repealed act is not reenacted or continued in one of the new codes, the office it created ceases to exist once the codes take effect.
Full Text of § 7
Plain-English Summary
Section 7 is the flip side of Section 6.
If a statute abolished by the 1872 codification wasn’t substantially carried forward into one of the new codes, any office that statute had created didn’t survive the transition — it ended when the codes took effect.
Frequently Asked Questions
What happens to an office created by a statute that the new codes didn’t continue?
Under Section 7, that office ceases to exist once the new codes take effect.
Is Section 7 the general rule, or the exception?
It’s the exception. The general rule is Section 6, which preserves an officeholder’s tenure when the office survives; Section 7 covers the narrower case where the office itself does not.
Amendment History
Enacted 1872.
Source & verification. Section text is reproduced verbatim from
the Deering's California Codes Annotated / vLex. Enacted by the California Legislature.
Last verified July 28, 2026.
· Official source
Also known as: construction of repeal certain offices CCP section 7