If any sentence, clause, section, or part of this chapter is found to be unconstitutional, illegal, or invalid, then such unconstitutionality, illegality, or invalidity shall affect only that sentence, clause, section, or part, and shall not effect or impair any of the remaining sentences, clauses, sections, or parts of this chapter. It is hereby declared to be the intention of the people of the city that this chapter would have been adopted had such unconstitutional, illegal, or otherwise invalid sentence, clause, section, or part of this chapter not been included herein. To this end, the provisions of this chapter are severable. (Ord. 2022 NCS §l (part), 1996.)