STATE OF NEW YORK
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5893
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 17, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. LUPINACCI -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend chapter 480 of the laws of 2013, amending the domestic
relations law and other laws relating to the scope of orders of
protection and temporary orders of protection, in relation to adding a
severability clause
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Chapter 480 of the laws of 2013, amending the domestic
2 relations law and other laws relating to the scope of orders of
3 protection and temporary orders of protection, is amended by adding a
4 new section 13-a to read as follows:
5 § 13-a. Severability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or
6 part of this act shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdic-
7 tion to be invalid and after exhaustion of all further judicial review,
8 the judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder there-
9 of, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence,
10 paragraph, section or part of this act directly involved in the contro-
11 versy in which the judgment shall have been rendered.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02998-01-7
