H6321

	2025 -- H 6321
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	STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
	IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
	JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2025
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	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
	Referred To: House Municipal Government & Housing
	It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
1	SECTION 1. In all respects in which the amendments to the Home Rule Charter of the
2	town of Hopkinton, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the town of
3	Hopkinton on November 5, 2024, may require ratification, confirmation, validation, or enactment
4	by the general assembly, but in no other respects, the provisions of said amendments to the Home
5	Rule Charter of the town of Hopkinton are hereby ratified, confirmed, validated, and enacted. It is
6	the express intention of the general assembly, by the passage of this act, to give effect to, ratify,
7	confirm, validate, and enact those provisions of the said amendments to the Home Rule Charter of
8	the town of Hopkinton which require ratification, confirmation, validation, or enactment, and by
9	the passage of this act, the legislature does hereby ratify, confirm, validate, and enact said
10	provisions, but nothing in this act shall be construed to abrogate or impair the powers now or
11	hereafter granted to cities and towns by the Home Rule amendment and other applicable laws of
12	the State of Rhode Island or those rights retained by said town of Hopkinton in its Home Rule
13	Charter.
14	SECTION 2. If any provision of this act, or the application thereof to the town of Hopkinton
15	or to any person or circumstances is deemed invalid for any reason, the remainder of this act, or the
16	application of such provision to said town or other persons or circumstance, shall not be affected
17	thereby, and to this end, the provisions of this act are declared to be severable.

1	SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage.
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	EXPLANATION
	BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
	OF
	A N A C T
	VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENTS TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF
	THE TOWN OF HOPKINTON
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1	This act would validate and ratify amendments to the Home Rule Charter of the town of
2	Hopkinton, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the town of
3	Hopkinton on November 5, 2024.
4	This act would take effect upon passage.
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