If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this act is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this act. The legislature hereby declares that it would have passed the act, each section, subsection, sentence, clause, and phrase thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more of the same shall be declared unconstitutional.
K.S.A. 44-565