The provisions of these rules and regulations shall be severable, and if any item, subclause, clause, sentence, subparagraph, paragraph, subdivision, section or Subpart of this Part, or the applicability thereof to any person or circumstances, shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, and the application thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the item, subclause, clause, sentence, subparagraph, paragraph, subdivision, section or Subpart thereof, or to the person or circumstance directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 10 §§ 128-9.1