Chapter 017

2015 -- S 0098 Enacted 04/09/2015

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VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENTS TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF RICHMOND

Introduced By: Senator Elaine J. Morgan

Date Introduced: January 22, 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 Richmond that were adopted and approved by the electors of the Town of Richmond 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 Richmond 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 to the home rule charter

of the Town of Richmond 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 Richmond in its home rule charter.

SECTION 2. If any provision of this act, or the application thereof to the Town of

Richmond 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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