| LA 026 |
| 2025 -- H 6321 Enacted 07/01/2025 |
| A N A C T |
| VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENTS TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE TOWN OF HOPKINTON |
Introduced By: Representatives Kennedy, and Cotter |
| Date Introduced: May 09, 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 Hopkinton, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the town of |
| Hopkinton 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 Hopkinton 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 Hopkinton 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 cities and towns by the Home Rule amendment and other applicable laws of |
| the State of Rhode Island or those rights retained by said town of Hopkinton in its Home Rule |
| Charter. |
| SECTION 2. If any provision of this act, or the application thereof to the town of Hopkinton |
| 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 circumstance, 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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