It is hereby declared to be the intention of the Board of Commissioners that the sections, subsections, sentences, clauses and phrases of this code are severable; and if any phrase, clause, sentence, subsection or section of this code shall be declared unconstitutional or otherwise invalid by the valid judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, the unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, subsections and sections of this code, since they would have been enacted by the Board of Commissioners without the incorporation in this code of any unconstitutional or invalid phrase, clause, sentence, subsection or section.
(1989 Code, § 1-13; 2003 Code, § 1.15)