2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART VII - Community Development (§§ 7001 — 8058) › Chapter 203 - Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Geospatial Information System Act (§§ 7718 — 7725) › Subchapter I - Preliminary Provisions (§§ 7718 — 7718c) › § 7718b - Duties and responsibilities of agencies, public corporations, and municipalities

It is hereby provided that every agency, entity, and instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, municipality, and public corporation that produces or updates geospatial information, directly or indirectly, as part of the planning or permit-granting process, administration, or operation thereof shall have the duty and responsibility to furnish such information to the Puerto Rico Surveyor’s Office, attached to the Permit Management Office, and comply with the geospatial information rules and standardization models created by the same. The update of information by an agency, entity, and instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, municipality, and public corporation under this chapter shall, in no case, exceed twelve (12) months.
The provisions of this chapter shall also apply to autonomous municipalities that, by virtue of the provisions of §§ 4601—4627 and §§ 4651—4663 of Title 21, known as the “Autonomous Municipalities Act of Puerto Rico”, have been granted or are in the process of being granted the authority to issue or deny permits consistent with the autonomous powers conferred to municipalities under said sections. Municipalities shall continue to issue determinations in accordance with the procedures established for such purposes by mayors and Municipal Legislatures through the Permit Office or Director Office created at the municipal level to carry out such task, but shall revise their regulations and procedures to conform them to the provisions of this chapter.
Every agency, entity, and instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, municipality, and public corporation has the ongoing duty to provide the Puerto Rico Surveyor’s Office, attached to the Permit Management Office, with any information or document, in printed, digital or any other format that is necessary to exercise the powers and carry out the duties entrusted to such agency under this chapter.
The proprietary rights, custody, and accuracy of the database provided by every agency, entity, and instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, municipality, and public corporation that produces or updates geospatial information, directly or indirectly, as part of the planning or permit-granting process, administration or operation thereof, as provided in this chapter, shall remain and be administered by the agency that provides the same. Notwithstanding the provisions of this chapter, every agency, entity, and instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, municipality, and public corporation that owns and has custody of geospatial information may continue to publish and sell the geospatial information it generates and produces. The OGPe, through the Office, shall only be limited to receive information and enter it on the data layer corresponding to the entity in question within the CPRSDI, the Map, the SPCS, and the Access Platform.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 1.04.