Title 52 — Voting and Elections
Chapter 301 — Federal Election Campaigns
§ 30144. Partial invalidity
Statutory text
If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the Act and the application of such provision to other persons and 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.
Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971
Pub. L. 92–225 title IV § 404 · 86 Stat. 3
Enacted · 52 U.S.C. § 30144
(Pub. L. 92–225, title IV, § 404, Feb. 7, 1972, 86 Stat. 20.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 92–225, title IV, § 404, Feb. 7, 1972, 86 Stat. 20.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 404. partial invalidity If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the Act and the application of such provision to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
This Act, referred to in text, means the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as defined by section 30101 of this title.
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 454 of Title 2, The Congress, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Severability
Pub. L. 107–155, title IV, § 401, , 116 Stat. 112, provided that: “If any provision of this Act [see Tables for classification] or amendment made by this Act, or the application of a provision or amendment to any person or circumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this Act and amendments made by this Act, and the application of the provisions and amendment to any person or circumstance, shall not be affected by the holding.”