Real property owned by an enrolled member of an incorporated
volunteer fire company, fire department, or incorporated voluntary
ambulance service, or such enrolled member and spouse, or the unremarried
spouse of a deceased enrolled member, shall be exempt from taxation
to the extent of 10% of the assessed value of such property for Town
purposes, exclusive of special assessments.
If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section or
part of this article or the application thereof to any person, individual,
corporation, firm, partnership, entity or circumstance shall be adjudged
by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or unconstitutional,
such order or judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the
remainder thereof but shall be confined in its operation to the clause,
sentence, paragraph, subdivision, partnership, entity or circumstance
directly involved in the controversy in which such order or judgment
shall be rendered.