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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>84688</law_id><section_number>54.1-3496</section_number><catch_line>Construction and severability</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="54.1">Professions and Occupations</unit><unit label="subtitle" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="III">Professions and Occupations Regulated by Boards Within the Department of Health Professions</unit><unit label="chapter" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="34.1">Physical Therapy</unit><unit label="article" level="4" order_by="1" identifier="2">Physical Therapy Licensure Compact</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>This Compact shall be liberally construed so as to effectuate the purposes thereof. The provisions of this Compact shall be severable, and if any phrase, clause, sentence, or provision of this Compact is declared to be contrary to the constitution of any <span class="dictionary">party</span> state or the Constitution of the United States, or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of this Compact and the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance shall not be affected thereby. If this Compact shall be held contrary to the constitution of any <span class="dictionary">party</span> state, the Compact shall remain in full force and effect as to the remaining <span class="dictionary">party</span> states and in full force and effect as to the <span class="dictionary">party</span> state affected as to all severable matters.</p></section></text><history>2019, c. 300.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
