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Tex. Gov't Code § 311.032

SEVERABILITY OF STATUTES

Known as the Code Construction Act

The act spans §§ 311–311 (27 sections).

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Jones v. State (1991)

Most recently applied in Harris v. Cantu (January 2015)

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 479, Sec. 1, eff

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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.

(a) If any statute contains a provision for severability, that provision prevails in interpreting that statute.

(b) If any statute contains a provision for nonseverability, that provision prevails in interpreting that statute.

(c) In a statute that does not contain a provision for severability or nonseverability, if any provision of the statute or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of the statute that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of the statute are severable.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.