Legal Opinion
Viveiros v. Town of Middletown
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided July 2, 2009No. 2008-166-AppealPublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Justice SUTTELL,
for the Court.
We are presented in this case with a question of constitutional construction concerning the home-rule provisions of the Rhode Island Constitution: Once a municipality has adopted a home-rule charter, must any change to the charter be accomplished only in accordance with the amendment procedures set forth in section 8 of article 13 of the Rhode Island Constitution, or may a new charter be adopted pursuant to procedures outlined in sections 6 and 7 of article 13?
The plaintiffs, Antone Viveiros, Albert Gauthier, and Carolyn Frye, appeal from an entry of…
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