If any part or provision of this chapter or application thereof to any person or circumstances is adjudged invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall be confined in its operation to the part, provision or application directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered and shall not affect or impair the validity of the remainder of this chapter or the application thereof to other persons or circumstances. The planning and zoning commission and the city council hereby declare that they would have enacted the remainder of this chapter even without any such part, provision or application.

(Code 1964, § 19.507(4); Ord. No. 10099, § 1, 3-5-84)