2021 -- H 5101

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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2021

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A N   A C T

VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENT TO THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF

JAMESTOWN

     Introduced By: Representative Deborah L. Ruggiero

     Date Introduced: January 22, 2021

     Referred To: House Municipal Government

     It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

     SECTION 1. In all respects in which the amendments to the home rule charter of the Town

of Jamestown, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the Town of

Jamestown on November 3, 2020, may require ratification, confirmation, validation, or enactment

by the General Assembly, but in no other respects, the provisions of said amendments to the home

rule charter of the Town of Jamestown are hereby ratified, confirmed, validated, and enacted. It is

the express intention of the General Assembly, by the passage of this act, to give effect to, ratify,

confirm, validate, and enact those provisions of the said amendments to the home rule charter of

the Town of Jamestown that require ratification, confirmation, validation, or enactment and, by the

passage of this act, the legislature does hereby ratify, confirm, validate, and enact said provisions.

Nothing in this act shall be construed to abrogate or impair the powers now or hereafter granted to

towns by the home rule amendment and other applicable laws of the state of Rhode Island or those

rights retained by said Town of Jamestown in its home rule charter.

     SECTION 2. If any provision of this act, or the application thereof, to the Town of

Jamestown or to any person or circumstances, is deemed invalid for any reason, the remainder of

this act, or the application of such provision, to aid town or other persons or circumstances, shall

not be affected thereby and, to this end, the provisions of this act are declared to be severable.

     SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage.

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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

OF

A N   A C T

VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENT TO THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF

JAMESTOWN

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     This act would ratify the town of Jamestown Home Rule Charter amendment to Section

219 of the charter adopted at a November 3, 2020 referendum, concerning the process and

procedures by which voter initiative can be activated.

     This act would take effect upon passage.

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