If any provision of an Act or statute or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of the Act or statute which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of the Act or statute are severable.
Iowa Code § 4.12
Acts or statutes are severable
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case State of Iowa v. Yvette Marie Louisell (2015)
Most recently applied in Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Kimberly Reynolds (January 2024)
[C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §4.12]
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Iowa Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Iowa statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.