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LAWS OF FLORIDA CHAPTER 29163 <br /> porations, property and property rights, occupations, businesses and <br /> professions whatsoever within said boundaries. <br /> The title to and jurisdiction over all streets, thoroughfares, <br /> parks, beaches, alleys, public roads and sewers, within the City, <br /> and all other property and municipal plants owned by it, and <br /> all property of every kind and character which the Town may <br /> hereafter acquire within or outside the boundaries of the Town, <br /> or which may vest in it, or be dedicated to it for its use or for <br /> the public use, shall be vested in the Town of Indian River Shores <br /> as created under this Charter. <br /> ARTICLE II <br /> POWERS OF THE TOWN <br /> Section 1. Charter: This Act shall hereafter be referred to as <br /> the Charter of the Town of Indian River Shores, a municipal <br /> corporation of Florida. <br /> Section 2. General Powers of the Town: The Town of Indian <br /> River Shores hereby created, established and organized, shall <br /> have full power and authority: <br /> (a) Acquisition of Property: To acquire by purchase, gift, <br /> devise, condemnation, lease or otherwise, real or personal prop- <br /> erty or any estate therein, or riparian rights or easements there- <br /> in, within or without the City, to be used for any municipal <br /> purpose, including cemeteries or place for burial of the dead; <br /> streets and highways, public parking lots or spaces; bridge and <br /> tunnel sites; the construction of a telephone system; plants, <br /> works and wells and other equipment necessary for supplying <br /> said City with water, ice, gas for illuminating and heating pur- <br /> poses, and electric power for illuminating, heating or power <br /> purposes; the location of waterworks and sites for public util- <br /> ity works; the establishment of poor houses, houses of deten- <br /> tion and correction; hospitals for the cure or detention of the <br /> sick; jails; market houses, public parks, playgrounds, airports, <br /> docks, sea walls, yacht harbors, wharves, warehouses, prome- <br /> nades; plants for cremating, neutralizing or otherwise destroy- <br /> ing sewerage, garbage and refuse; for extension of sewer and <br /> drainage pipes and water mains; and for any public or muni- <br /> cipal purposes; and to improve, sell, lease, pledge or otherwise <br /> dispose of same or any part thereof for the benefit of the City, <br /> 1287 <br />