---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2582"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2582"
heading: "Severability"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2582"
units:
  - "Chapter 57 — Plant Variety Protection"
  - "Subchapter III — Plant Variety Protection and Rights"
  - "Part M — Intent and Severability"
---

# §2582. Severability


If this chapter is held unconstitutional as to some provisions or circumstances, it shall remain in force as to the remaining provisions and other circumstances.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–577, title III, § 132, Dec. 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 1558.)