---
kind: "section"
citation: "52 U.S.C. § 30144"
title: "52"
title_heading: "Voting and Elections"
number: "30144"
heading: "Partial invalidity"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/52/30144"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — Federal Campaign Finance"
  - "Chapter 301 — Federal Election Campaigns"
  - "Subchapter II — General Provisions"
---

# §30144. Partial invalidity


If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any [person](/usc/52/30101.md?p=11) or circumstance, is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the Act and the application of such provision to other [persons](/usc/52/30101.md?p=11) and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–225, title IV, § 404, Feb. 7, 1972, 86 Stat. 20.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, means the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as defined by section 30101 of this title.

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 454 of Title 2, The Congress, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Severability

Pub. L. 107–155, title IV, § 401, Mar. 27, 2002, 116 Stat. 112, provided that: “If any provision of this Act [see Tables for classification] or amendment made by this Act, or the application of a provision or amendment to any person or circumstance, is held to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this Act and amendments made by this Act, and the application of the provisions and amendment to any person or circumstance, shall not be affected by the holding.”