2005 California Government Code Sections 54700 Article 13. Construction

54700.  If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of
this chapter, or the application thereof to any person or
circumstance, is for any reason held invalid, the validity of the
remainder of the chapter, or the application of such provision to
other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby.  The
Legislature hereby declares that it would have passed this chapter,
and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, and phrase thereof,
irrespective of the fact that one or more sections, subsections,
sentences, clauses or phrases, or the application thereof to any
person or circumstance, be held invalid.