| Chapter 001 |
| 2015 -- S 0006 SUBSTITUTE A Enacted 02/09/2015 |
| A N A C T |
| VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENTS TO THE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF NORTH SMITHFIELD |
| Introduced By: Senators E O`Neill, Cote, and P Fogarty |
| Date Introduced: January 13, 2015 |
| It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: |
| SECTION 1. In all respects in which the amendments to the home rule charter of the |
| Town of North Smithfield, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the |
| Town of North Smithfield 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 Smithfield 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 Town of North Smithfield 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. 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 |
| Town of North Smithfield in its home rule charter. |
| SECTION 2. If any provision of this act, or the application thereof, to the Town of North |
| Smithfield or to any person or circumstances, is deemed invalid for any reason, the remainder of |
| this act, or the application of such provision, to aid 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. Section 16-2-5 of the General Laws in Chapter 16-2 entitled "School |
| Committees and Superintendents [See Title 16 Chapter 97 - The Rhode Island Board of |
| Education Act]" is hereby amended to read as follows: |
| 16-2-5. Composition of city or town school committees -- Election and terms of |
| members -- Vacancies. -- The school committee of each city or town shall consist of three (3) |
| residents of the city or town, or of any number as at the present time constitute the committee. In |
| cities or towns having annual elections of city or town officers the committee shall be divided as |
| equally as may be into three (3) classes whose several terms of office shall expire at the end of |
| three (3) years from the dates of their respective elections. In cities or towns having biennial |
| elections the committee shall be divided as equally as may be into two (2) classes whose several |
| terms of office shall expire at the end of four (4) years from the dates of their respective elections. |
| As the office of each class shall become vacant, the vacancy or vacancies shall be filled by the |
| city or town at its regular city or town meeting for the election of state or city or town officers, or |
| by the city or town council at its next meeting after this. In case of a vacancy by death, |
| resignation, or otherwise than as is provided in this section, the vacancy shall be filled by the city |
| or town council until the next regular city or town meeting for the election of state or city or town |
| officers, when it shall be filled for the unexpired term as is provided in this section. This section |
| shall not apply to the cities of Providence, Central Falls, or Woonsocket, or the Town of North |
| Smithfield. |
| SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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