| LA 011 |
| 2025 -- S 0201 Enacted 05/30/2025 |
| A N A C T |
| RELATING TO VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENTS TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF TIVERTON |
Introduced By: Senators Felag, and DiPalma |
| Date Introduced: February 07, 2025 |
| 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 Tiverton, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the town of |
| Tiverton on November 5, 2024, 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 Tiverton 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 Tiverton which 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 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 Tiverton in its Home Rule Charter. |
| SECTION 2. If any provision of this act, or the application thereof to the town of Tiverton |
| 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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