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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 CITY OF WOONSOCKET

     Introduced By: Senators Thompson, and Murray

     Date Introduced: April 04, 2025

     Referred To: Senate Housing & Municipal Government

     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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EXPLANATION

BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

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A N   A C T

VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AMENDMENTS TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF

THE CITY OF WOONSOCKET

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     This act would validate and ratify the amendments to the Woonsocket Home Rule Charter

which were approved by the electors of the city of Woonsocket on November 5, 2024.

     This act would take effect upon passage.

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