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[CITE: 15USC1801]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
                   CHAPTER 43--NEWSPAPER PRESERVATION
 
Sec. 1801. Congressional declaration of policy

    In the public interest of maintaining a newspaper press editorially 
and reportorially independent and competitive in all parts of the United 
States, it is hereby declared to be the public policy of the United 
States to preserve the publication of newspapers in any city, community, 
or metropolitan area where a joint operating arrangement has been 
heretofore entered into because of economic distress or is hereafter 
effected in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.

(Pub. L. 91-353, Sec. 2, July 24, 1970, 84 Stat. 466.)


                               Short Title

    Section 1 of Pub. L. 91-353 provided that: ``This Act [enacting this 
chapter] may be cited as the `Newspaper Preservation Act'.''


                              Separability

    Section 6 of Pub. L. 91-353 provided that: ``If any provision of 
this Act [enacting this chapter] is declared unconstitutional, or the 
applicability thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the 
validity of the remainder of this Act, and the applicability of such 
provision to any other person or circumstance, shall not be affected 
thereby.''
