N.Y. Local Finance Law § 181.00: Separability

§ 181.00 Separability. If any clause, sentence, subdivision,

paragraph, section or part of this chapter be adjudged by any 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, subdivision, paragraph, section or

part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment

shall have been rendered.