[CHARTER ENABLING LEGISLATION – CHAPTER 289 OF THE
ACTS OF 1996]
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS - AN ACT PROVIDING FOR
A CHARTER FOR THE TOWN OF NANTUCKET - SECTION 1. Text of Charter. The following shall be the Charter of
the Town of Nantucket: Preamble - We, the inhabitants
of the Town of Nantucket, in order to provide more perfectly for a
municipal government known as the Town of Nantucket, to provide for
the common welfare, and to secure for ourselves and for our community
all the rights, powers, privileges, duties and obligations which may
now or in the future be derived from town government, do hereby establish
for ourselves and for our community this instrument as the Charter
of and for the Town of Nantucket.