LA 128
2019 -- H 6235
Enacted 07/19/2019

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VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENT TO SECTION 2-1 OF THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF EAST PROVIDENCE

Introduced By: Representatives Amore, Serodio, Kazarian, and Cassar
Date Introduced: June 20, 2019

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
     WHEREAS, on November 6, 2012, the voters of the city of East Providence approved an
amendment to Section 2-1 of the Home Rule Charter of the city of East Providence, establishing
four (4) year terms for members of the City Council.
     It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:‎
     SECTION 1. To the extent any amendment to Section 2-1 of the Home Rule Charter of
the city of ‎East Providence, which charter was approved and adopted by the electors of the city of
East Providence in September 1954, may require ratification, confirmation, validation, or
enactment by the general ‎assembly, but in no other respects, such amendment to Section 2-1 of
the Home Rule Charter of the ‎city of East Providence is 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 amendment to Section 2-
1 of the Home Rule Charter of the city of East ‎Providence which require ratification,
confirmation, validation or enactment and by the passage of this ‎act, the legislature does hereby
ratify, confirm, validate and enact said provision, but nothing in this ‎act shall be construed to
abrogate or impair the powers now or hereafter granted to cities and towns by ‎the Home Rule
amendment and other applicable laws of the state of Rhode Island, those rights ‎retained by said
city of East Providence in its Home Rule Charter or to abrogate or impair the effectiveness or
validity of any resolutions, ordinances or votes heretofore taken by the city of East Providence.‎
     SECTION 2. If any provision of this act, or the application thereof to the city of
East ‎Providence 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 city 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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