1.140. Severability of statute provisions. - Missouri Statutes

Severability of statute provisions.

1.140. The provisions of every statute are severable. Ifany provision of a statute is found by a court of competentjurisdiction to be unconstitutional, the remaining provisions ofthe statute are valid unless the court finds the valid provisionsof the statute are so essentially and inseparably connected with,and so dependent upon, the void provision that it cannot bepresumed the legislature would have enacted the valid provisionswithout the void one; or unless the court finds that the validprovisions, standing alone, are incomplete and are incapable ofbeing executed in accordance with the legislative intent.

(1949 S.B. 1001 § 1.14, A.L. 1957 p. 587)

CROSS REFERENCE:

Revisor may omit severability clauses from statutes, RSMo 3.030