45 U.S.C. § 187 — Separability

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If a court strikes down part of this law, the rest still stands. This applies whether the invalid part affected a specific person or situation. Only the struck-down piece is removed.

This is a standard "severability" clause. If any part of this subchapter — or how it applies to a particular person or situation — is ever found invalid by a court, that doesn't affect the rest of the law. The other sections keep working, and the law still applies normally to other people and situations.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

If any provision of this subchapter or application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of such sections and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

Source credit: (May 20, 1926, ch. 347, § 207, as added Apr. 10, 1936, ch. 166, 49 Stat. 1191.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1926Enacted · Act of May 20, 1926, ch. 347 · 49 Stat. 1191

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 347 on 1926-05-20.

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