§ 5-49-20 - Severability. - Rhode Island Statutes

SECTION 5-49-20

   § 5-49-20  Severability. – (a) If any section, sentence, clause, phrase, or word of this chapter is forany reason held or declared to be unconstitutional, inoperative, or void, thatholding of invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions;

   (b) It shall be construed to have been the legislative intentto pass this chapter without that unconstitutional, invalid, or inoperativepart; and

   (c) The remainder of this chapter, after the exclusion ofthat part or parts, shall be deemed and held to be valid as if those parts hadnot been included.