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It is hereby declared to be the intention of the city 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 by the valid judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality shall not affect any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this Code, since the same would have been enacted by the city council without incorporation in this Code of any such unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph, or section.
(Code 1971, § 1-6)