Chapter 014
2015 -- H 5129
Enacted 04/09/2015

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

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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