2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 90B - Special Procedure for Use Permits in Special Communities (§§ 972 — 972b) › § 972b - Special procedure

(a) Filing.— The Community Board, through a duly authorized representative, shall, by filling the form provided by the Regulations and Permits Administration, file an application for permit for use to obtain the water and electric power services for the operation of a building located within the municipal territorial boundaries and destined to serve as a community facility for institutional or service use.
(b) Presentation of explanatory document.— The Regulations and Permits Administration, in the process for evaluating the applications for permits for use filed by the Community Boards, shall require the presentation of an explanatory document certifying the use of the structures destined for use as community facilities for community service and development.
(c) Financial subsidy requirement.— As part of the process for obtaining a permit, the Regulations and Permits Administration shall require that in order to obtain water and electric power services for operating community facilities, the special communities that apply for a permit for use, obtain a letter of understanding from the Office of the General Coordinator for the Socioeconomic Financing and Self-Management of the Special Communities, for the purposes of assigning funds proceeding from the Fund for the Socioeconomic Development of the Special Communities of Puerto Rico, to pay for the water and electric power services that will one day be contracted from the Electric Power Authority and the Aqueducts and Sewers Authority.
It shall be understood that the financial subsidy herein stipulated shall be limited to the fiscal year in which the special procedure herein established is used, provided that the payment for the water and electric power services for subsequent years shall be the responsibility of the municipality or of the community board to whom the municipality has formally transferred the administration of the community center.
(d) Request for comments.— The Regulations and Permits Administration shall proceed to request that the municipal government where the community centers are located, submit a formulation of comments relative to the application for a permit for use filed for its consideration by the Community Board of the special communities.
The municipality shall submit its comments within a term of thirty (30) days. Provided, That once that term has elapsed, the Regulations and Permits Administration shall proceed to finish the transaction related to the application for the permit for use, without a subsequent procedure.
(e) It is hereby provided that in those municipalities which have acquired the power to have jurisdiction over the processes for obtaining permits, the special communities shall execute the aforementioned procedure before the corresponding municipal unit. To that effect, in those instances there shall apply in all their force and effect, the provisions of this section, except for what was established in the preceding subsection (d), which shall not apply in these cases. It is hereby understood that the application for a permit for use shall be transacted and adjudicated within a term of not more than 30 days, as of the date on which the same was filed.
History —Sept. 22, 2004, No. 424, § 4, eff. 60 days after Sept. 22, 2004.