It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

SECTION 1. In all respects in which the Home Rule Charter of the Town of East Greenwich, which was adopted and approved on November 7, 1972, and amended from time to time, most recently on November 3, 1992, may require ratification, confirmation, validation or enactment by the general assembly, but in no other respects, the provisions of the Home Rule Charter so adopted and amended 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 certain provisions of the home rule charter of the Town of East Greenwich approved on November 7, 1972, as amended from time to time, 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 by Article XIII of the Rhode Island Constitution and other applicable laws of the State of Rhode Island or those rights retained by said Town in said Charter; Provided, however, said validation shall not abrogate or impair the requirements of any state act, general or public law, statute or any other law to which the town of East Greenwich is now, or has been, subject to.

SECTION 2. If any provisions of this act, or the application thereof to the town of East Greenwich 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.