It is hereby declared to be the intention of the Common Council that the sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses, and phrases of this code are severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, or section of this code shall be declared unconstitutional or invalid by the valid judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs, and sections of this code, since they would have been enacted by the Common Council without the incorporation in this code of any such unconstitutional or invalid phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, or section.
(Prior Code, § 1-5)