If any clauses, sentences, paragraphs or other parts of the code, or this article or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, shall for any reason, be judged by the court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder of the code or this article, and that application thereof to any persons or circumstances, which shall be confined in its operation to the clauses, sentences, paragraphs or parts thereof directly involved in the controversy in which the judgment shall have been rendered and the persons or circumstances involved. It is hereby declared to be the legislative intent that the code and this article would have been adopted had such invalid provisions not been included.
(Ord. 80-21-173, 7-15-1980; Ord. 82-6-250, 4-13-1982; Ord. 10-13-548, 6-8-2010; Ord. 14-23-678, 11-13-2014)