Rhode Island § 5-49-20 § 5-49-20. Severability.

Rhode Island Statutes

§ 5-49-20 — § 5-49-20. Severability.

Rhode Island § 5-49-20

Title 5Businesses and Professions

Ch. 5-49Hearing Aid Dealers and Fitters

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R.I. Gen. Laws § 5-49-20 (2026).

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§ 5-49-20. Severability.
(a) If any section, sentence, clause, phrase, or word of this chapter is for any reason
            held or declared to be unconstitutional, inoperative, or void, that holding of invalidity
            shall not affect the remaining portions;
         
(b) It shall be construed to have been the legislative intent to pass this chapter without
            that unconstitutional, invalid, or inoperative part; and
         
(c) The remainder of this chapter, after the exclusion of that part or parts, shall be
            deemed and held to be valid as if those parts had not been included.
         

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§ 5-49-20. Severability.

(a) If any section, sentence, clause, phrase, or word of this chapter is for any reason held or declared to be unconstitutional, inoperative, or void, that holding of invalidity shall not affect the remaining portions;

(b) It shall be construed to have been the legislative intent to pass this chapter without that unconstitutional, invalid, or inoperative part; and

(c) The remainder of this chapter, after the exclusion of that part or parts, shall be deemed and held to be valid as if those parts had not been included.