If any provision, article, section, sentence, clause or part of this Charter, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional or invalid, such adjudication shall not affect impair or invalidate the Charter as a whole or any part hereof other than the part so adjudged to be invalid, and to this end the provisions of this Charter are declared to be severable. (Amended by Charter election held on 11-07-23. Formerly 13.15)