Files
Fabio 76b8ec33a7 Legal corpus: the complete U.S. Code (59,740 sections, all 53 titles)
Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code
now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 ->
59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun,
verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make
legal-us-code default now covers every title.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-06 10:51:44 -04:00

36 lines
1.4 KiB
Markdown
Raw Permalink Blame History

This file contains ambiguous Unicode characters
This file contains Unicode characters that might be confused with other characters. If you think that this is intentional, you can safely ignore this warning. Use the Escape button to reveal them.
---
type: "LegalText"
title: "21 U.S.C. § 391"
description: "Separability clause"
jurisdiction: "us"
corpus: "united_states_code"
kind: "code_section"
title_number: 21
title_name: "FOOD AND DRUGS"
chapter_number: "9"
chapter_name: "FEDERAL FOOD, DRUG, AND COSMETIC ACT"
section: "391"
citation: "21 U.S.C. § 391"
status: "current"
release_point: "119-100"
release_date: "2026-06-26"
source: "official"
source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc21@119-100.zip"
source_identifier: "/us/usc/t21/s391"
source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-21/usc21.xml"
source_hash: "e168f0bef26967492ec31e5285207a7552a61fa41500c1ecc45766a6a1b3eee9"
raw_snapshot_hash: "3dbd7a61c8616baefb8459bd8dac3b93242106deb416308c8d4dd5a9143176d1"
text_hash: "77acc43f2fc9c3c5554d563dad99ff6b05aa3b1fe9b870b7bb51ff630e1b6e1c"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
confidence: "official"
tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
---
# 21 U.S.C. § 391 - Separability clause
## Text
If any provision of this chapter is declared unconstitutional, or the applicability thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the constitutionality of the remainder of the chapter and the applicability thereof to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
(June 25, 1938, ch. 675, § 1001, formerly § 901, 52 Stat. 1059; renumbered § 1001, Pub. L. 11131, div. A, title I, § 101(b)(2), June 22, 2009, 123 Stat. 1784.)