Chapter
094
2003 -- H 5064
Enacted 07/04/03
A N A C T
RELATING
TO VALIDATING AND RATIFYING CERTAIN AMENDMENTS TO THE
HOME
RULE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT
Introduced
By: Representatives Shavers, and Crowley
Date
Introduced: January 15, 2003
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 City of Newport, which amendments were adopted and
approved
by
the electors of the City of Newport on November 5, 2002, 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 City of Newport 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 City of Newport which 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 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 City of
Newport
in its Home Rule Charter.
SECTION
2. Severability. – If any provision of this act, or the
application thereof to the
City
of Newport 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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