§ 1.04.060. Severability.*


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  • It is the intention of the city that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses and phrases of this volume are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this volume shall be declared invalid or unconstitutional by the valid judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this volume, since the same would have been enacted by the city without the incorporation in this volume of any such invalid or unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section.

    (C.O.83-52 § 3; prior revision § 1-6)

    *  For case as to partial invalidity of ordinances, see Goldstein v. Conner, 212 Mass. 57, 98 N. E. 701; see also, Kilgour v. Gratto, 224 Mass. 78, 112 N. E. 489; Commonwealth v. Maletsky, 203 Mass. 241, 89 N. E. 245.