§ 147.415 Severability

This rule is basically a safety net for the law. It says that if a court ever decides one small part of this law is invalid or unconstitutional, that decision does not wipe out the whole law. The rest of the law keeps working normally.

Think of the law as a chain of separate links. If one link breaks, the other links stay connected and still do their job. This protects the overall law from being thrown out completely just because one piece of it runs into a legal problem.

For people dealing with this law, it means they can still rely on the parts that have not been challenged, even if another part gets struck down in court. Only the specific piece found invalid stops applying, and everything else stays in effect.