---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 1608"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "1608"
heading: "Severability"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/1608"
units:
  - "Chapter 26 — Disclosure of Lobbying Activities"
---

# §1608. Severability


If any provision of this chapter, or the application thereof, is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this chapter and the application of such provision to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–65, § 13, Dec. 19, 1995, 109 Stat. 701.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act” meaning Pub. L. 104–65, Dec. 19, 1995, 109 Stat. 691, known as the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1601 of this title and Tables.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 1, 1996, see section 24 of Pub. L. 104–65, set out as a note under section 1601 of this title.