13-LA047

2013 -- H 5238

Enacted 04/10/13

A N A C T

VALIDATING AND RATIFYING AN AMENDMENT TO THE HOME RULE CHARTER OF

THE CITY OF WOONSOCKET

Introduced By: Representatives Baldelli-Hunt, Casey, and Phillips

Date Introduced: January 31, 2013

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

SECTION 1. In all respects in which the amendment to the Home Rule charter of the city

of Woonsocket, which amendment was adopted and approved by the electors of the city of

Woonsocket on November 8, 2011, and which amendment provides that candidates for elective

public office in the city of Woonsocket be elected at the general state elections to be held on even

numbered years commencing in the year 2016, may require ratification, confirmation, validation,

or enactment by the general assembly, but in no other respects, the provisions of said amendment

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 amendment 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 cities and towns 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 city 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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