If any provision of this article or the application thereof to any municipality, person or circumstances shall be adjudged unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of this article or the application thereof to other municipalities, persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby, and the legislature hereby declares that it would have enacted this article without the invalid provision or application, as the case may be, had such invalidity been apparent.
N.Y. Gen. Mun. Law § 499