§ 45-2-3. Power to appropriate money.
Towns or cities may, at any legal meeting, grant and vote sums of money that they
judge necessary:
(1) For the purchase of sites for, and for the erection and repair of, town and city houses
and other public buildings;
(2) For the support of schools, and purchase of sites for and the building and repair
of schoolhouses; and for the establishing and maintaining of school libraries;
(3) For the use of hospitals, to be expended and paid under limitations and conditions
prescribed from time to time by the town or city council;
(4) For the support and maintenance of the poor, and the purchase, erection, and repair
of proper buildings for the accommodation of the poor, as well as for the purchase
of proper sites for these buildings, and, if they judge expedient, of farms or farm
lands, for the employment and support of paupers and others chargeable to them;
(5) For the purchase of proper sites for, houses of correction and reform schools for
juvenile offenders, and the purchase, erection, and repair of proper buildings, fixtures,
and apparatus for these sites, and the purchase of lands for the employment and support
of the inmates of these sites;
(6) For the laying out, making, repairing, and amending of highways;
(7) For the building, repairing, and amending of bridges;
(8) For the improvement, in any manner they may deem fit, of any property belonging to
the town or city;
(9) For all necessary charges and expenses arising within the town or city, whether incidental
or not to the items enumerated within this section; and
(10) For the allocation of donated monies to specific purpose or purposes as designated
by a donor.