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| 2025 -- S 0944 Enacted 07/01/2025 |
| A N A C T |
| VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENTS TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF WOONSOCKET |
Introduced By: Senators Thompson, and Murray |
| Date Introduced: April 04, 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 city |
| of Woonsocket, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the city of |
| Woonsocket 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 city of Woonsocket 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 city of Woonsocket 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 or cities by the home rule amendment and other applicable laws of the |
| state of Rhode Island or those rights retained by said city of Woonsocket in its Home Rule Charter. |
| SECTION 2. If any provision of this act, or the application thereof to the city of |
| Woonsocket 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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