---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 U.S.C. § 1609"
title: "47"
title_heading: "Telecommunications"
number: "1609"
heading: "Severability"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/47/1609"
units:
  - "Chapter 15 — Secure and Trusted Communications Networks"
---

# §1609. Severability


If any provision of this chapter, or the application of such a provision to any [person](/usc/47/1608.md?p=8) or circumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, the remaining provisions of this chapter, and the application of such provisions to any [person](/usc/47/1608.md?p=8) or circumstance, shall not be affected thereby.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–124, § 10, Mar. 12, 2020, 134 Stat. 170.)