This chapter shall not apply to any person or to any property as to whom or which it is beyond the power of Council to impose the tax herein provided for. If any sentence, clause, section or other part of this chapter or any tax against or exemption granted any individual or any of the several groups of persons or forms of income specified herein is found to be unconstitutional, illegal or invalid, such unconstitutionality, illegality or invalidity shall affect only such sentence, clause, section or other part of this chapter and shall not affect or impair any of the remaining 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, clause, section or other part of this chapter not been included herein.
(Ord. 74-96. Passed 12-7-74; Ord. 75-8. Passed 1-6-75; Ord. 67-80. Passed 6-30-67; Ord. 75-8. Passed 1-6-75; Ord. 01-52. Passed 11-19-01; Ord. 05-48. Passed 9-6-05; Ord. 09-71. Passed 12-21-09.)