Illinois General Assembly - Illinois Compiled Statutes

Updating the database of the Illinois Compiled Statutes (ILCS) is an ongoing process. Recent laws may not yet be included in the ILCS database, but they are found on this site as Public Acts soon after they become law. For information concerning the relationship between statutes and Public Acts, refer to the Guide.

Because the statute database is maintained primarily for legislative drafting purposes, statutory changes are sometimes included in the statute database before they take effect. If the source note at the end of a Section of the statutes includes a Public Act that has not yet taken effect, the version of the law that is currently in effect may have already been removed from the database and you should refer to that Public Act to see the changes made to the current law.

820 ILCS 130/12

(820 ILCS 130/12) (from Ch. 48, par. 39s-12)

Sec. 12.

If any section, sentence, clause or part of this act, is for
any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect
the remaining portions of this act. The General Assembly hereby declares
that it would have passed this Act, and each section, sentence, clause,
or part thereof, irrespective of the fact that one or more sections,
sentences, clauses, or parts might be declared unconstitutional.

(Source: Laws 1941, vol. 1, p. 703.)