2017 -- H 5133 | |
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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2017 | |
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A N A C T | |
VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF | |
THE TOWN OF SOUTH KINGSTOWN | |
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Introduced By: Representatives Fogarty, Tanzi, Filippi, and McEntee | |
Date Introduced: January 18, 2017 | |
Referred To: House 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 South Kingstown, which amendment was adopted and approved by the electors of the |
3 | town of South Kingstown on November 8, 2016, may require ratification, confirmation, |
4 | validation, or enactment by the general assembly, but in no other respects, the provisions of said |
5 | amendment to the Home Rule Charter of the town of South Kingstown is hereby ratified, |
6 | confirmed, validated, and enacted. It is the express intention of the general assembly, by the |
7 | passage of this act, to give effect to, ratify, confirm, validate, and enact those provisions of the |
8 | said amendment to the Home Rule Charter of the town of South Kingstown which requires |
9 | ratification, confirmation, validation, or enactment and, by the passage of this act, the legislature |
10 | does hereby ratify, confirm, validate, and enact said provisions, but nothing in this act shall be |
11 | construed to abrogate or impair the powers now or hereafter granted to towns by the home rule |
12 | amendment and other applicable laws of the state of Rhode Island or those rights retained by said |
13 | town of South Kingstown in its Home Rule Charter. |
14 | SECTION 2. If any provision of this act, or the application thereof to the town of South |
15 | Kingstown or to any person or circumstances, is deemed invalid for any reason, the remainder of |
16 | this act, or the application of such provision to said town or other persons or circumstances, shall |
17 | not be affected thereby and, to this end, the provisions of this act are declared to be severable. |
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1 | SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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EXPLANATION | |
BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | |
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A N A C T | |
VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF | |
THE TOWN OF SOUTH KINGSTOWN | |
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1 | This act would ratify and validate the amendment to the South Kingstown Home Rule |
2 | Charter which was approved by the electors of the town of South Kingstown at the polls on |
3 | November 8, 2016. |
4 | This act would take effect upon passage. |
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