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ducers or dealers, by health authorities, or such other pub-
lic agencies, by any provisions of law, and in addition to the
requirements of whatsoever character exacted from or im-
posed upon milk dealers or producers by the provisions of
any charter or ordinance of any municipal corporation, or
any sanitary or other regulations of any health authorities,
pertaining to the production, storage, handling, content or
marketing of milk. Nothing in this Act shall be so con-
strued as to repeal or modify any such law, ordinance, or
regulation, or as in conflict with any such charter provision
unless herein excepted.

Section 21. Nothing in this Act shall be construed or
applied as to prevent the sale of raw milk when otherwise
complying with this Act.

Section 22. The sections and parts of sections included
in this Act are hereby declared to be independent sections
and parts of sections; if any such section or part of section
shall be held invalid such holding shall not affect the re-
mainder of this Act, nor the context in which such part of
section so held invalid may appear, excepting to the extent
that an entire section or part of section may be inseparably
connected in meaning and effect with the section or part of
section to which such holding shall directly apply. The in-
tention and purpose of this Act as hereinbefore defined ex-
tends to the regulation of the milk marketing industry of
this State to the full extent permitted by the constitutions
of this State and of the United States as applied to legisla-
tion enacted under the emergency conditions described in
this Act.

Section 23. Any milk dealer engaged in business on
the date on which this Act shall take effect and any
producer supplying milk to a milk dealer doing business
in this State whose application for license or permit duly
filed pursuant to the provisions of this Act, shall not have
been disposed of at the expiration of the period of thirty
days mentioned in this section, shall be entitled to continue
in business under a provisional license or permit issued in
the manner and subject to the provisions of sections 10 and
12 of this Act until such application has been finally dis-
posed of. The provisions of Section four of this Act shall
not take effect until the expiration of sixty days after the
effective date of the Act.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in the exercise
of the police power of the State and to protect the public