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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 AN AMENDMENT TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF
	THE TOWN OF MIDDLETOWN

	Introduced By: Senator Louis P. DiPalma
	Date Introduced: February 11, 2015
	Referred To: Senate Housing & Municipal Government
	It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
1	SECTION 1. In all respects in which the amendment to the home rule charter of the
2	Town of Middletown that was adopted and approved by the electors of the Town of Middletown
3	on November 4, 2014 may require ratification, confirmation, validation, or enactment by the
4	general assembly, but in no other respects, the provisions of said amendment to the home rule
5	charter of the Town of Middletown is hereby ratified, confirmed, validated, and enacted. It is the
6	express intention of the general assembly, by the passage of this act, to give effect to, ratify,
7	confirm, validate, and enact those provisions of the said amendment to the home rule charter of
8	the Town of Middletown that require ratification, confirmation, validation, or enactment and, by
9	the passage of this act, the legislature does hereby ratify, confirm, validate, and enact said
10	provisions, but nothing in the act shall be construed to abrogate or impair the powers now or
11	hereafter granted to towns by the home rule amendment and other applicable laws of the state of
12	Rhode Island or those rights retained by said Town of Middletown in its home rule charter.
13	SECTION 2. If any provision of this act, or the application thereof to the Town of
14	Middletown or to any person or circumstances, is deemed invalid for any reason, the remainder of
15	this act, or the application of such provision to said town or other persons or circumstances, shall
16	not be affected thereby and, to this end, the provisions of this act are declared to be severable.

1	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 AN AMENDMENT TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF
	THE TOWN OF MIDDLETOWN
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1	This act would ratify the amendment to the Middletown town charter passed on
2	November 4, 2014, to the extent such ratification is needed.
3	This act would take effect upon passage.
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