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• <br />• <br />• <br />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 />1LJD <br />