---
kind: "section"
citation: "52 U.S.C. § 10313"
title: "52"
title_heading: "Voting and Elections"
number: "10313"
heading: "Separability"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/52/10313"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Voting Rights"
  - "Chapter 103 — Enforcement of Voting Rights"
---

# §10313. Separability


If any provision of chapters [103](/usc/52/chstI/ch103.md) to [107](/usc/52/chstI/ch107.md) of this title or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of chapters [103](/usc/52/chstI/ch103.md) to [107](/usc/52/chstI/ch107.md) of this title and the application of the provision to other persons not similarly situated or to other circumstances shall not be affected thereby.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–110, title I, § 19, Aug. 6, 1965, 79 Stat. 446; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 91–285, § 2, June 22, 1970, 84 Stat. 314.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 1973p of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.