Unless otherwise described, all references to "days" shall mean business days, excluding weekends, holidays, and Court closures. Business days shall be applied when a given time period is 14 days or less. In cases where a given time period is 15 days or more, calendar days will be applied, and any actions thereupon due shall be due on the next available open Court day.
In their interpretation and application, the provisions of this chapter shall be held to be minimum requirements and shall be liberally construed in favor of the Tribe and shall not be deemed a limitation or repeal of any other tribal power or authority. The Tribe's sovereign immunity is not waived or affected hereby.
Each section of the Code and every part of each section is an independent section or part of a section, and the holding of any section or a part thereof to be unconstitutional, void or ineffective for any cause shall not be deemed to affect the validity or constitutionality of any other sections or parts thereof. If any provision of this Code or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the remainder of this Code and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.