6 U.S.C. § 102 : US Code - Section 102: Construction; severability

Search 6 U.S.C. § 102 : US Code - Section 102: Construction; severability

Any provision of this chapter held to be invalid or unenforceable
by its terms, or as applied to any person or circumstance, shall be
construed so as to give it the maximum effect permitted by law,
unless such holding shall be one of utter invalidity or
unenforceability, in which event such provision shall be deemed
severable from this chapter and shall not affect the remainder
thereof, or the application of such provision to other persons not
similarly situated or to other, dissimilar circumstances.