H6081

	2019 -- H 6081
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	STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
	IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
	JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2019
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	A N A C T
	VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENTS TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF
	THE TOWN OF COVENTRY

	Introduced By: Representative Michael W. Chippendale
	Date Introduced: May 08, 2019
	Referred To: House read and passed
	It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
1	SECTION 1. In all respects in which the amendments to the Home Rule Charter of the
2	town of Coventry, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the town of
3	Coventry on November 6, 2018, may require ratification, confirmation, validation or enactment
4	by the general assembly, but in no other respects, the provisions of said amendments to the Home
5	Rule Charter of the town of Coventry are hereby ratified, confirmed, validated and enacted. It is
6	the 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 amendments to the Home Rule Charter of
8	the town of Coventry which require ratification, confirmation, validation or enactment and by the
9	passage of this act, the legislature does hereby ratify, confirm, validate and enact said provisions,
10	but nothing in this act shall be construed to abrogate or impair the powers now or hereafter
11	granted to towns by the Home Rule amendment and other applicable laws of the State of Rhode
12	Island or those rights retained by said town of Coventry in its Home Rule Charter.
13	SECTION 2. If any provision of this act, or the application thereof to the town of
14	Coventry 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 AMENDMENTS TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF
	THE TOWN OF COVENTRY
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1	This act would validate and ratify amendments to the home rule charter of the town of
2	Coventry, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the town of Coventry
3	on November 6, 2018.
4	This act would take effect upon passage.
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