55439. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this chapter is for any reason adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder of this chapter, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this chapter which is directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment is rendered.
(Enacted by Stats. 1967, Ch. 15.)