This chapter shall not apply to any person, firm, corporation, or income, as to whom, or as to which, it is beyond the power of the City Council to impose the tax herein provided for. If any sentence, clause, section or part of this chapter, or any tax against any individual or any of the several groups specified herein, is found to be unconstitutional, illegal or invalid, such unconstitutionality, illegality or invalidity shall affect only such sentence, clause, section or part of this chapter and shall not affect or impair any of the remaining sentences, clauses, sections or parts of this chapter. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the Council of the City of Vandalia that this chapter would have been adopted had such unconstitutional, illegal or invalid sentence, clause, section or part thereof not been included herein.
(Ord. 67-26. Passed 12-4-67; Ord. 02-24. Passed 12-23-02.)