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title: "42 U.S.C. § 3537"
description: "Separability"
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title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
chapter_number: "44"
chapter_name: "DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT"
section: "3537"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 3537"
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# 42 U.S.C. § 3537 - Separability
## Text
Notwithstanding any other evidence of the intent of Congress, it is hereby declared to be the intent of Congress that if any provision of this chapter, or the application thereof to any persons or circumstances, shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder of this chapter or its application to other persons and circumstances, but shall be confined in its operation to the provision of this chapter, or the application thereof to the persons and circumstances, directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
(Pub. L. 89174, § 10, Sept. 9, 1965, 79 Stat. 671.)
## Notes
Editorial Notes
References in TextThis chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 89174, Sept. 9, 1965, 79 Stat. 667, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 3531 of this title and Tables.
Codification Section was formerly classified to section 624f of former Title 5, Executive Departments and Government Officers and Employees, prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89554, § 1, Sept. 1, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.