This chapter shall not apply to any person, firm or corporation or to any property as to whom or which it is beyond the power of Council to impose the tax provided for herein. Any sentence, clause, section or part of this chapter, any tax against or exception granted any individual or any of the several groups of persons or forms of income specified herein found to be unconstitutional or illegal or invalid, such unconstitutionality, illegality or invalidity shall affect only such clause, sentence, section or part of this chapter and shall not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions, sentences, clauses, sections or other parts of this chapter. It is hereby declared to be the intention of Council that this chapter would have been adopted had such unconstitutional, illegal or invalid sentence, or part thereof, not been included therein.
(Ord. 2004-18. Passed 9-20-04.)