Chapter 7 — SEVERABILITY

5-8700 - SEVERABILITY.

If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this division, as applied to any entity or person, is for any reason held to be illegal, invalid, unconstitutional, or outside the jurisdiction and/or the police powers of the County, as determined by any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the division as to other entities or persons. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this division is for any reason held illegal, invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions hereof. The Board hereby declares that it would have passed this division and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase hereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, or phrases be declared illegal, invalid, unconstitutional, or outside the jurisdiction and/or police powers of the County as to certain entities or persons.

(Ord. 3879 § 8, 1996; Ord. 4064 § 1 (part), 2000)