If any article, section, subsection, provision, regulation, limitation, restriction, sentence, clause, phrase, or word in this chapter is declared for any reason to be illegal, unconstitutional, or invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect or impair the validity of this chapter as a whole, or any other article, section, subsection, provision, regulation, limitation, restriction, sentence, clause, phrase, word, or remaining portion of this chapter. The Borough Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this chapter and each article, section, subsection, provision, regulation, limitation, restriction, sentence, clause, phrase and work thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more of the articles, sections, subsections, provisions, regulations, limitations, restrictions, sentences, clauses, phrases, or words may be declared illegal, unconstitutional, or invalid.
All Abbottstown Borough ordinances or parts thereof in conflict with this chapter or inconsistent with the provision of this chapter are hereby repealed to the extent necessary give this chapter full force and effect.
This chapter shall take effect immediately upon adoption and publication, according to law, by the Borough Council of the Borough of Abbottstown, County of Adams, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.