Butcher v. Philadelphia

Per Curiam,

Under the severability clause in the income tax ordinance, which reads as follows: “SECT. 12. CONSTRUCTION. If any sentence, clause or section or part of this ordinance is for any reason found to be unconstitutional, illegal or invalid, such unconstitutionality, illegality or invalidity shall not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions, sentences, clauses or sections or parts of this ordinance. It is hereby declared as the intent of the Council that this ordinance would have been adojited had such unconstitutional, illegal or invalid sentence, clause, section or part…