N.Y. Retirement & Social Security Law § 147: Separability clause

§ 147. Separability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph,

subdivision, section or part of this article shall 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, paragraph,

subdivision, section or part of this article directly involved in the

controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.