If any section, subsection, provision, clause, or portion of this chapter, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is adjudged unconstitutional or invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall be confined in its operation to the section, subsection, provision, clause, portion, or application directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered and it shall not affect or impair the remainder of this chapter or the application thereof to other persons or circumstances.
N.J. Admin. Code § 7:3-1.2