N.Y. Civil Service Law § 170: Separability

§ 170. Separability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision

or section or part of this article shall be adjudged by a court of

competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect,

impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its

operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section or

part of this article directly involved in the controversy in which such

judgment shall have been rendered.