ARTICLE I. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Sec. 20.5-12. Severability.

This chapter shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate the purposes hereof. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or subsection of this chapter shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid for any reason, including a declaration that it is contrary to the Constitution of the Commonwealth or the United States, or if the application thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance is held invalid, such judgement or holding shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section or subsection hereof, or the specific application thereof, directly involved in the controversy in which the judgement or holding shall have been rendered or made, and shall not in any way affect the validity of any other clause, sentence, paragraph, section or subsection hereof, or affect the validity of the specific application thereof to any other government, agency, person, or circumstance.