(a) All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter are repealed to the extent of their inconsistency, providing that nothing herein contained shall be taken as restricting any control which the state department of health and mental hygiene and the state department of water resources are empowered to exercise within Frederick County.
(b) The provisions of this chapter are severable, and it is the intention to confer the whole or any part of the powers herein provided for, and if any of the provisions of this chapter shall be held unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, the decision of such court shall not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions of this chapter. It is hereby declared to be the legislative intent that this chapter would have been adopted had such unconstitutional provision not been included therein.
(Code 1959, § 10A-33; 1968, Chapter 609, § 1; 1979, Chapter 723, § 1)