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Title 52 — Voting and Elections

Chapter 103 — Enforcement of Voting Rights

§ 10313. Separability

Statutory text

If any provision of chapters 103 to 107 of this title or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of chapters 103 to 107 of this title and the application of the provision to other persons not similarly situated or to other 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.

  1. Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Pub. L. 89–110 title I § 19 · 79 Stat. 437

    Enacted · 52 U.S.C. § 10313

    Pub. L. 89–110, title I, § 19, Aug. 6, 1965, 79 Stat. 446

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 89–110, title I, § 19, Aug. 6, 1965, 79 Stat. 446

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 19. If any provision of this Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of the provision to other persons not similarly situated or to other circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 1973p of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Credits

1965–1970 · 2 acts
  1. 1965Pub. L. 89–110, title I, § 19, , 79 Stat. 446
  2. 1970renumbered title I, Pub. L. 91–285, § 2, , 84 Stat. 314.
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(Pub. L. 89–110, title I, § 19, , 79 Stat. 446; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 91–285, § 2, , 84 Stat. 314.)

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