Section 18 Severability and construction - Massachusetts Statutes

[ Text of section added by 2010, 131, Sec. 89 effective July 1, 2010. See 2010, 131, Sec. 202.]

  Section 18. (a) The provisions of this compact shall be severable and, if any phrase, clause, sentence or provision is deemed unenforceable, the remaining provisions of the compact shall be enforceable.

  (b) The provisions of this compact shall be liberally construed to effectuate its purposes.