Title 45 — Railroads
Chapter 8 — Railway Labor
§ 161. Effect of partial invalidity of chapter
Statutory text
If any provision of this chapter, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the chapter, and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Railway Labor Act
Pub. L. 69–347 § 11 · 44 Stat. 577
Enacted · 45 U.S.C. § 161
(May 20, 1926, ch. 347, § 11, 44 Stat. 587.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(May 20, 1926, ch. 347, § 11, 44 Stat. 587.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 11. general provisions If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof Invalidity of any provision not to affect remainder of Act. to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the Act, and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Separability; Repeal of Inconsistent Provisions
Act June 21, 1934, ch. 691, § 8, 48 Stat. 1197, provided that: “If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this Act [amending sections 151 to 158, 160, and 162 of this title] is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Act. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.”
Credits
(May 20, 1926, ch. 347, § 11, 44 Stat. 587.)