2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIFTEEN - Sports and Parks (§§ 1 — 2020) › Subtitle 1 - Generally (§§ 1 — 915) › Chapter 29 - Sports Events (§§ 551 — 568) › § 565 - Free use of recreational facilities

(a) To provide that all facilities owned by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or any of its agencies or dependencies shall be lent free of the payment of fees on any account, whenever the these are sought for holding any activity sponsored by the Puerto Rico Councils of the Boy Scouts or the Girl Scouts of America. All housing facilities that generate revenues for the government agencies or dependencies are hereby excluded.
(b) The following terms or phrases shall have the meaning expressed below:
(1) Boy Scout. — Shall mean any boy or young man, to the age of twenty-one (21), duly registered as a member of the Puerto Rico Council of the Boy Scouts of America, including adults duly registered as leaders of these groups.
(2) Girl Scout. — Shall mean any girl or young woman, to the age of seventeen (17), duly registered as a member of the Puerto Rico Council of the Girl Scouts of America, including adults duly registered as leaders of these groups.
(3) Facility owned by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, its agencies or dependencies. — Means any facility, premise, physical area, as well as properties such as parks, courts, land, beaches, forests, green areas, centers, mountains, slopes, peaks, hummocks, lakes and islets, with or without structures, which because of their size and daily usage, or because of their nature or destination is for recreational, sports or contemplative use or that might be used for camping or recreational activities or for practicing some sport or for meetings of large groups of people. This definition excludes stadiums, sports complexes, coliseums or any facility which because of its nature or size is mainly used for regional or national activities. In the case of those facilities that are administered by a public, Commonwealth or municipal instrumentality whose revenues depend on the fees charged for the use of the facilities under its administration, a discount of fifty percent (50%) off the fee usually charged shall be granted. Also excluded are those housing facilities which generate revenues for government agencies or dependencies.
(4) The agency or dependency of the Commonwealth shall retain control as to the ways and means in which its resources shall be ceded and the authority to identify the proper areas for every application and may grant similar benefits to analogous organizations for which the corresponding regulations were adopted within a term not to exceed sixty (60) days as of the effective date of this act.
(5) In order to obtain the permit for the use of said facilities, not less than thirty (30) days before, the interested organizations shall notify the pertinent public agencies and instrumentalities about the kind of activity to be conducted, its purpose and the scope or duration of the activity. They shall also provide a certification indicating that they hold the minimum public liability insurance policies to cover the participants as well as those to cover the damages to the facilities and the instruments and equipment they contain may suffer.
History —July 23, 1999, No. 159, § 1; Nov. 17, 2005, No. 141, § 1.