2015 -- H 5129

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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2015

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A N   A C T

VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENTS TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF

THE TOWN OF NORTH KINGSTOWN

     Introduced By: Representatives Costa, and Craven

     Date Introduced: January 15, 2015

     Referred To: House Municipal Government

     It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

     SECTION 1. Validation of amendments. In all respects in which the amendments to the

home rule charter of the Town of North Kingstown that were adopted and approved by the

electors of the Town of North Kingstown on November 4, 2014, 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 North Kingstown are

hereby rarified, 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 North Kingstown 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, but nothing in the 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 North Kingstown in its home rule charter.

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

Town of North Kingstown or to any person or circumstances, is deemed invalid for any reason,

the remainder of this act, or the application of such provision to said 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 HOME RULE CHARTER OF

THE TOWN OF NORTH KINGSTOWN

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     This act would ratify the amendments to the North Kingstown town charter approved on

November 4, 2014, to the extent such ratification is needed.

     This act would take effect upon passage.

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