2014 -- S 2151

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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2014

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A N   A C T

VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENTS TO THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF

WEST GREENWICH

     Introduced By: Senators Kettle, Raptakis, and Cool Rumsey

     Date Introduced: January 29, 2014

     Referred To: Senate Housing & 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 West Greenwich, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the

Town of West Greenwich on October 22, 2013, 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 West Greenwich 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 West Greenwich 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 West Greenwich in its home rule charter.

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

Greenwich 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 AMENDMENTS TO THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF

WEST GREENWICH

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     This act would ratify and validate the amendments to the West Greenwich town charter

which were approved by the electors of the town of West Greenwich at the polls on October 22,

2013.

     This act would take effect upon passage.

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