The sections of this charter and parts thereof are severable. If any portion of this charter or its application to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the remainder thereof or the application of such invalid portions to other persons shall not thereby be affected, except that no portion of the charter shall be administered in an erratic, inconsistent, or prejudicial manner or so as to create a double standard. (Added 1999, No. M-11 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. May 9, 2000.)