Introduced By: Senator John F. McBurney, III
Date Introduced : February 23, 1999
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 Pawtucket, which amendments were adopted and approved by the electors of the City of Pawtucket on November 3, 1998, and which one amendment revises Section 3-708 of the Charter, entitled "School Committee" and Section 6-105 of the Charter, entitled "Special Elections for Filling Vacancies in the Offices of Mayor, Councilors and Members of the School Committee" to eliminate the need for a special election to fill a vacancy on the school committee which occurs more than one hundred eighty (180) days prior to the next municipal election and instead, allows the candidate who finished eighth in the prior municipal school committee election to fill the vacancy on the school committee, or allow the City Council to appoint a replacement if the eighth finisher shall be incapacitated or not wish to serve; and which a second amendment revises Section 3-709 of the Charter, entitled "Water Supply Board" to increase the number if members of the Pawtucket Water Supply Board from five (5) members to six (6), and to allow the City Council to elect a member of the City Council to serve as the sixth member of the Pawtucket Water Supply Board, 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 Pawtucket 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 Pawtucket 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 Pawtucket in its Home Rule Charter.
SECTION 2. If any provision of this act, or the application thereof to the City of Pawtucket 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.
