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Constitutional construction of statutes - 1 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 1925

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     § 1925.  Constitutional construction of statutes.
        The provisions of every statute shall be severable. If any
     provision of any statute or the application thereof to any
     person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the
     statute, and the application of such provision to other persons
     or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby, unless the
     court finds that the valid provisions of the statute are so
     essentially and inseparably connected with, and so depend upon,
     the void provision or application, that it cannot be presumed
     the General Assembly would have enacted the remaining valid
     provisions without the void one; or unless the court finds that
     the remaining valid provisions, standing alone, are incomplete
     and are incapable of being executed in accordance with the
     legislative intent.

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