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Section 1201 · Sec. 1201 ·

What this chapter is about

This part says what happens if a court strikes down one piece of the law. The rest of the law still stands. It also still applies to other people and cases. That is all it does.

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The document says “shall notWho acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 1201 in the PDF
What the document says

“If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the Act, and the application of such provisions to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby.”

To increase the supply of housing in America, and for other purposes, Sec. 1201

The section provides that if any provision of the Act, or its application to a person or circumstance, is held invalid, the rest of the Act and its application to other people and circumstances are not affected.

What the document actually says

“If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the Act, and the application of such provisions to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby.”

To increase the supply of housing in America, and for other purposes, Sec. 1201
That sentence, in plain words

A court may strike down one part of this law. The rest still stands. It still applies to other people and cases.

What this is about

To sever is to cut one piece away and keep the rest. Without this clause a court might void the whole law. This tells the court to keep going.

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What This Page Covers, and What It Leaves Out

The single thing the section does: it provides that the rest of the Act survives if one provision or one application is held invalid.

Nothing the section does is left out. The section is one sentence long.

The section amends no older statute and requires nothing of anybody, so nothing recorded here depends on a document that is not indexed.