If any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence or clause of this article is for any reason held to be invalid, the Legislature hereby declares that had it known of the invalidity of that portion at the time of this enactment, it would have passed the remainder of the article without the invalid portion and that it is the intention of the Legislature that the remainder of the article operate in the event of the invalidity of any portion thereof.
(Added by Stats. 1953, Ch. 35.)