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 herein provided for. Any sentence, clause, section, or part of this chapter, or any tax against or exception granted any individual or any of the several groups of persons, or forms of income specified herein is 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 of the municipality that this chapter would have been adopted had such unconstitutional, illegal, or invalid sentence, or part thereof, not been included therein.
(Ord. 806, passed 8-26-69)