The provisions of this part shall be severable, and if any section, subsection, paragraph, subparagraph, sentence, clause, subclause or item of this part, or the applicability thereof to any person or circumstance, 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 section, subsection, paragraph, subparagraph, sentence, clause, subclause or item thereof, or to the person or circumstance directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
N.M. Admin. Code § 20.7.10.700