6 U.S.C. § 102 — Construction; severability

This section is not split into lettered parts, but it makes two connected points. First, if a court finds any part of this chapter invalid or unenforceable — either on its own terms or as applied to a particular person or situation — the court must read that part in whatever way gives it the most legal effect the law allows. Second, if a court instead finds a part completely and totally invalid or unenforceable, that one part is treated as separable from the rest of the chapter. The rest of the chapter, and how it applies to other people or other, different situations, is not affected.