(a) If any article, section, subsection, subdivision, provision, clause or phrase of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held unconstitutional or invalid, such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect other articles, sections, subsections, subdivisions, provisions, clauses or phrases or applications of the chapter, and to this end each and every article, section, subsection, subdivision, provision, clause aned phrase of this chapter is declared to be severable. The Legislature hereby declares that it would have enacted the remaining articles, sections, subsections, subdivisions, prorvisions, clauses and phrases of this chapter even if it had known that any articles, sections, subsections, subdivisions, provisions, clauses and phrases thereof would be declared to be unconstitutional or invalid, and that it would have enacted this chapter even if it had known that the application thereof to any person or circumstance wtould be held to be unconstitutional or invalid. (b) The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall be fully applicable to all future amendments or additions to this chapter, with like effect as if the provisions of said subsection (a) were set forth in extenso in evesry such amendment or addition and were reenacted as a part thereof.
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