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2 <br />Section 4. Severability <br />Should any section, subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause, or phrase of this <br />Ordinance, or its application to any person or situation, be declared unconstitutional or <br />invalid for any reason, such decision shall not affect the validity of. the remaining <br />portions of this Ordinance or its application to any other person or situation. The City <br />Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this Ordinance and each section, <br />subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the fact that any <br />one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions be declared <br />invalid or unconstitutional. <br />Section 5. General Duty <br />It is expressly the purpose of this Ordinance to provide for and promote the health, <br />safety, and welfare of the general public and not to create or otherwise establish or <br />designate any particular class or group of persons who will or should be especially <br />protected or benefited by the terms of this Ordinance. It is the specific intent of this <br />Ordinance that no provision or any term used in this Ordinance is intended to impose <br />any duty whatsoever upon the City or any of its officers or employees. Nothing <br />contained in this Ordinance is intended nor shall be construed to create or form the <br />basis of any liability on the part of the City, or its officers, employees, or agents, for any <br />injury or damage resulting from any action or inaction on the part of the City related in <br />any manner to the enforcement of this Ordinance by its officers, employees, or agents. <br />Section 6. Savings <br />The enactment of this Ordinance shall not affect any case, proceeding, appeal, or other <br />matter currently pending in any court or in any way modify any right or liability, civil or <br />criminal, which may be in existence on the effective date of this Ordinance. <br />Section 7. Corrections <br />The City Clerk and the codifiers of this Ordinance are authorized to make necessary <br />corrections to this Ordinance including, but not limited to, the correction of <br />scrivener's/clerical errors, references, Ordinance numbering, section/subsection <br />numbers and any references thereto. <br />Section 8. Codification <br />Sections 2. and 3 of this Ordinance shall be codified as new Chapters in Title 13 of the <br />Everett Municipal Code. <br />