Chapter 028

2015 -- S 0237 Enacted 05/08/2015

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VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF MIDDLETOWN

Introduced By: Senator Louis P. DiPalma

Date Introduced: February 11, 2015

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

SECTION 1. In all respects in which the amendment to the home rule charter of the

Town of Middletown that was adopted and approved by the electors of the Town of Middletown

on November 4, 2014 may require ratification, confirmation, validation, or enactment by the

general assembly, but in no other respects, the provisions of said amendment to the home rule

charter of the Town of Middletown 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 the home rule charter of

the Town of Middletown 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 Middletown in its home rule charter.

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

Middletown 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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