PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

If a court says part of the chapter is invalid or can't be enforced, the court must read that part so it still works as much as the law allows. If a court finds a part completely invalid or unenforceable, that part must be cut out and will not affect the rest of the chapter or how the rule applies to other people or different situations.

Title 6, §102

Domestic Security, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

Any provision of this chapter held to be invalid or unenforceable by its terms, or as applied to any person or circumstance, shall be construed so as to give it the maximum effect permitted by law, unless such holding shall be one of utter invalidity or unenforceability, in which event such provision shall be deemed severable from this chapter and shall not affect the remainder thereof, or the application of such provision to other persons not similarly situated or to other, dissimilar circumstances.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 107–296, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2135, known as the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 101 of this title and Tables.

§102 Construction; Severability