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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 74 - Municipal Finance Agency (§§ 681 — 697) › § 688 - Bond anticipation notes

The Agency is hereby authorized to issue bond anticipation notes for the purpose of borrowing money for any of the purposes permitted by this chapter. Each of said notes shall contain a recital that it is issued in anticipation of the issuance of bonds and shall describe in brief and general terms the purpose or purposes for the financing of which the note is issued. Such notes may be issued from time to time for periods not exceeding one year and may be renewed from time to time for periods not exceeding an additional year; Provided, however, That all of such notes, including any renewals, shall mature and be paid not later than five (5) years after the date on which the resolution authorizing such notes became effective. Any bond anticipation note issued hereunder may be renewed either by the issuance of a new bond anticipation note or notes or pursuant to a resolution or resolutions of the Agency and, subject to the foregoing provisions of this section, any such renewal may be on such terms and conditions and at such interest rate or rates as the Board shall provide.
History —June 30, 1972, No. 29, p. 432, § 8.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 74 - Municipal Finance Agency (§§ 681 — 697) › § 689 - Trust indenture

In the discretion of the Agency any bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter may be secured by a trust indenture by and between the Agency and a corporate trustee, which may be any trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company within or without the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Such trust indenture or the resolution referred to in § 687 of this title, providing for the issuance of such bonds may provide for the pledge or assignment of all or any part of the funds of the Agency available for such purpose including, but without limitation:
(1) Payment of principal of and interest on municipal bonds or municipal notes on bond anticipation;
(2) the proceeds of the sale of any such municipal bonds or municipal notes on bond anticipation, and
(3) any moneys appropriated or transferred to the Agency by the Commonwealth.
Such trust indenture or resolution providing for the issuance of such bonds may provide for the creation and maintenance of such reserves as the Agency shall determine to be proper, and may include covenants setting forth the duties of the Agency in relation to the acquisition of any municipal bonds or municipal notes on bond anticipation, the substitution of any municipal bonds or municipal notes on bond anticipation, as security for payment of the bonds of the Agency, and the collection of principal and interest on any municipal bonds or municipal notes on bond anticipation. Such trust indenture or resolution may contain provisions respecting the custody, safeguarding and application of all moneys and securities, including municipal bonds or municipal notes on bond anticipation purchased by the Agency, and may contain such other provisions dealing with the protection, rights and remedies of the bondholders as may be reasonable and proper and not in violation of law. It shall be lawful for any bank or trust company incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth which may act as depository of the proceeds of bonds or of any other funds or obligations received on behalf of the Agency to furnish such indemnity bonds or to pledge such securities as may be required by the Agency. Any such trust indenture or resolution may contain such other provisions as the Agency may deem reasonable and proper for the security of the bondholders. Any references in this chapter to a resolution of the Agency shall include any trust indenture authorized thereby.
History —June 30, 1972, No. 29, p. 432, § 9; June 7, 1973, No. 115, p. 467, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 74 - Municipal Finance Agency (§§ 681 — 697) › § 690 - Issuance of bonds by municipalities

Any municipality may issue bonds or municipal notes on bond anticipation for sale and delivery to the Agency bearing interest at such rate or rates of interest and at such interest cost as the Agency and the municipality agree upon and the municipality may contract with the Agency to pay interest on or an interest cost per annum for money borrowed from the Agency and evidenced by the municipal bonds of the municipality or bond anticipation notes purchased by the Agency, which contract may include such other provisions respecting such loan or purchase and contain such terms, conditions and provisions, consistent with this chapter, as the Agency and the municipality shall agree upon, including payment by the municipality to the Agency of fees and charges for the services rendered to the municipality by the Agency. Notwithstanding the provisions of Act Oct. 28, 1954, No. 7 or of any other law applicable to or constituting any limitation on the sale of municipal bonds or municipal notes on bond anticipation, any municipality may sell such municipal bonds or municipal notes on bond anticipation to the Agency without limitations as to denomination and such bonds may be fully registered, registrable as to principal alone, or in bearer form, may bear interest at a rate or rates in accordance with this section, may be evidenced in such manner and may contain other provisions not inconsistent with this chapter, and be sold to the Agency without advertisement at a price not below that authorized by law and accrued interest, all as provided in the proceedings of the municipal legislature of the municipality, and under which such bonds or notes were issued.
History —June 30, 1972, No. 29, p. 432, § 10; June 7, 1973, No. 115, p. 467, § 5; July 23, 1974, No. 213, Part 2, p. 121.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 74 - Municipal Finance Agency (§§ 681 — 697) › § 692 - Officers and employees

Appointments, removals, promotions, transfers, discontinuances, reinstatements, suspensions, leaves of absence and changes in grade, compensation or title of the officers and employees of the Agency shall be made and permitted as provided in rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Board in pursuance of a general plan similar, insofar as the Board shall deem it consistent with the best interests of the Agency, of its employees and of its service to the public, to that which may be in effect for employees of the Commonwealth Government under the Personnel Act of the Commonwealth. The members, officers and employees of the Agency shall be entitled to reimbursement for, or per diem payment in lieu of, such necessary travel expenses as shall be authorized or approved pursuant to rules and regulations of the Board. Officers and employees of any board, commission, agency or department of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico may be appointed to similar positions in the Agency without examination. Any such Commonwealth officers and employees that shall have been so appointed, who, prior to said appointment, were beneficiaries of any existing pension, retirement or savings and loan fund system or systems, shall continue to have, after said appointment, the rights, privileges, obligations and status with respect thereto that are prescribed by law for officers and employees holding similar positions in the Commonwealth Government. -
History —June 30, 1972, No. 29, p. 432, § 12.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 74 - Municipal Finance Agency (§§ 681 — 697) › § 693 - Bonds of Agency; legal investment

The bonds of the Agency shall be lawful investments, and may be accepted as security, for all fiduciary funds, special or public, the investment or deposit of which shall be under the authority or control of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or any officer or officers thereof.
History —June 30, 1972, No. 29, p. 432, § 13.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 74 - Municipal Finance Agency (§§ 681 — 697) › § 694 - Tax exemption

It is hereby found and declared that the purposes for which the Agency is created and shall exercise its powers are public purposes in all respects for the benefit of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and that therefore the Agency shall not be required to pay any taxes, excises, or assessments on any of the property acquired by it or under its jurisdiction, control, possession or supervision or on the income derived from any of its activities and properties.
History —June 30, 1972, No. 29, p. 432, § 14.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 74 - Municipal Finance Agency (§§ 681 — 697) › § 695 - Subjection to Fiscal Agency Act

Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the Agency shall be subject to the provisions of §§ 581–595 of Title 7, known as the “Fiscal Agency Act”.
History —June 30, 1972, No. 29, p. 432, § 15.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 74 - Municipal Finance Agency (§§ 681 — 697) › § 696 - Authority to act as custodian

The Government Development Bank is hereby authorized to act as custodian of any bonds, bond anticipation notes, or any other securities acquired or in possession of the Agency.
History —June 30, 1972, No. 29, p. 432, § 16.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 74 - Municipal Finance Agency (§§ 681 — 697) › § 697 - Legal personality of Agency

The Municipal Finance Agency established by this chapter shall be a public corporation with legal personality separate and distinct from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and its departments, agencies, corporations and public instrumentalities and its subsidiaries and of any of its other administrative subdivisions and its municipalities. Likewise, the debts, obligations, contracts, bonds, note receipts, expenses, accounts, funds, enterprises and properties of the Agency shall belong to the Agency and not to the departments, agencies, corporations and public instrumentalities and its subsidiaries or any other administrative subdivision and municipalities of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico nor of any of its officers and employees.
History —June 30, 1972, No. 29, p. 432, § 17.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 77 - Municipal Finances (§§ 731 — 750) › § 731 - Compensation in lieu of taxes—Payment through Secretary of Treasury

All payments to be made to the municipalities in accordance with the provisions of any law or laws authorizing the creation of authorities or instrumentalities of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and those which may be hereafter created or through amendments to said laws as compensation in lieu of taxes enjoyed by said authorities or other instrumentalities shall be made through the Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico.
History —May 14, 1945, No. 259, p. 884, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 77 - Municipal Finances (§§ 731 — 750) › § 732 - Compensation in lieu of taxes—Distribution of payments

When the Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico has received and deposited any amount for the aforesaid purpose, he shall distribute same in accordance with the tax rate corresponding to the municipal share of the property taxes levied for regular and special purposes in each municipality.
History —May 14, 1945, No. 259, p. 884, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 77 - Municipal Finances (§§ 731 — 750) › § 733 - Compensation in lieu of taxes—Appropriation

The sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) is hereby appropriated from any available funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, which sum shall be placed at the disposal of the Governor to compensate those municipalities whose receipts have been adversely affected by reason of the expropriation and/or acquisition of taxable lands and properties by the Federal and Commonwealth Governments or their dependencies, corporations, agencies, or instrumentalities.
History —May 11, 1943, No. 83, p. 194, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 77 - Municipal Finances (§§ 731 — 750) › § 734 - Compensation in lieu of taxes—Determination of municipalities entitled to compensation

The Governor upon recommendation of the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Justice is hereby empowered and authorized to determine which municipalities should receive compensation in accordance with the ends and purposes of §§ 733–735 of this title, and to assign and transfer to the same such part or parts of the funds appropriated by §§ 733–735 of this title as he may consider just and reasonable; Provided further, That in making the distribution of said funds, the financial condition of each municipality affected shall be given consideration.
History —May 11, 1943, No. 83, p. 194, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 77 - Municipal Finances (§§ 731 — 750) › § 735 - Compensation in lieu of taxes—Conditions

The Governor upon recommendation of the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of Justice is hereby empowered to determine the conditions under which compensation is granted to a municipality under the provisions of §§ 733–735 of this title.
History —May 11, 1943, No. 83, p. 194, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 77 - Municipal Finances (§§ 731 — 750) › § 746 - Portion of basic tax levied by municipalities not to be collected; appropriations for remittance

(a) In collecting the basic tax levied by the municipalities of Puerto Rico for their regular expenses corresponding to the year 1960-61 and succeeding fiscal years, the Secretary of the Treasury shall not collect from the taxpayers twenty hundredths of one percent (0.20%) per annum on the assessed value of all real and personal property not tax exempt which is the object of such taxation. The sums which the Secretary of the Treasury will thus leave uncollected under the provisions of this section are hereby remitted. The Secretary of the Treasury shall periodically transmit to each municipality the amount collected by reason of said basic tax, plus a sum, chargeable to the appropriation made below and which, added to the amount collected, shall make up a sum equal to the total amount which by reason of said basic tax would have been collected from the taxpayers if this section were not in force.
(b) There is hereby appropriated from unencumbered funds in the Treasury of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, for the year 1960-61 and each succeeding fiscal year, a sum equal to the amount of twenty hundredths of one percent (0.20%) on the assessed value of all real and personal property not tax exempt and located in each municipality, or for the Secretary of the Treasury to make up the remittances authorized by subsection (a) of this section.
History —May 31, 1960, No. 16, §§ 1, 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 77 - Municipal Finances (§§ 731 — 750) › § 750 - Property taxes; final liquidation

At the conclusion of the fiscal year during any period deemed convenient, the Secretary of the Treasury shall make a final liquidation of the corresponding amount derived from the property taxes, taking as a basis the payments made in cash of the tax collected and the advances made during the year, remitting, if any, the excess to the municipalities. When the advances exceed the payments in cash of the tax, the remanent of the collection of property taxes of previous years pending collection as of June 30 shall be retained. There is also hereby provided that if the remanent cannot be settled with the collections of previous years during the following fiscal year, then the balance of the debt shall be retained from any balance in favor of the municipality in possession of the Secretary of the Treasury.
History —May 30, 1970, No. 79, p. 196, § 2, eff. July 1, 1970.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 79 - Municipal Property (§§ 771-776 — 790-796) › § 785 - Usufructuaries of municipal lots—Payment of rent in lieu of property tax

It is hereby provided that every usufructuary of municipal lots shall pay to the municipality where said lot is located for the grant of the usufruct enjoyed by him, in lieu of the property tax accruing on said lot, an annual rent equivalent to not more than the amount of said tax, which rent the municipality is hereby authorized to levy; Provided, That for the purposes of §§ 785 and 786 of this title, the term “usufructuary” shall include every owner of municipal lots. Provided, further, That nothing contained in this section shall limit or prevent the municipality from selling said municipal lots in usufruct, according to the Municipal Law in force.
History —Sept. 27, 1951, No. 2, p. 96, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 79 - Municipal Property (§§ 771-776 — 790-796) › § 786 - Usufructuaries of municipal lots—Lots not property within homestead exemption

For the purposes of the homestead exemption established by subsection (a) of § 291 of the Political Code, the municipal lots referred to in the foregoing section shall not be considered property of the taxpayer.
History —Sept. 27, 1951, No. 2, p. 96, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 79 - Municipal Property (§§ 771-776 — 790-796) › § 786a - Usufrutaries of municipal lots—Property tax exemption

It is hereby provided that on and after January 1, 1951, the date on which §§ 785 and 786 of this title took effect, municipal lots assigned in usufruct are exempt from property tax and are only subject to the payment of rental when the municipalities may levy it.
History —July 12, 1960, No. 115, p. 319, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 82 - Municipal Recreational and Sports Community Facilities (§§ 814 — 834) › § 815 - Transfer of patrimonial property

The Secretary shall have the power to freely transfer to the municipalities the ownership title of the patrimonial community property of the Department. This transfer shall be executed according to the procedures and conditions established in this chapter and subject to acceptance by the municipalities through an ordinance.
History —Aug. 17, 2001, No. 120, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 82 - Municipal Recreational and Sports Community Facilities (§§ 814 — 834) › § 817 - Conditional transfer—Certification; documentation

Upon presentation, the certification in the Property Register must be accompanied by the following documents:
(a) A certified copy of the municipal ordinance authorizing the mayor or his/her representative to accept the acquisition of the patrimonial property described in the certification.
(b) The original and a copy of the Presentation Minutes required by 30 R.P.R. §§ 1001 et seq., General Regulations for Executing the Mortgage and Property Register Act.
History —Aug. 17, 2001, No. 120, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 82 - Municipal Recreational and Sports Community Facilities (§§ 814 — 834) › § 818 - Conditional transfer—Charges and liens

The conditional transfer of the title of the patrimonial property shall be subject to the charges and the lien arising from the Register at the time the property is registered.
History —Aug. 17, 2001, No. 120, § 6.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 82 - Municipal Recreational and Sports Community Facilities (§§ 814 — 834) › § 819 - Restrictive conditions

The ownership transfer of the patrimonial real estate shall be subject to the following restrictive conditions for the municipalities:
(a) The municipality is hereby bound to maintain the use of the sports and recreation facilities as previously designated for each facility.
(b) The municipality is hereby bound to notify by certified mail to the Department, as interested party, all matters or procedures related to changes in the use and the constitution of lien or alienation of any patrimonial property to be transferred by virtue of this chapter. This notice must be given prior to any transaction leading to changes as to the use, encumbrance or alienation of the property.
(c) The consideration of the Department shall be deemed as having the force of law regarding the final resolution about the changes as to the use, encumbrance or alienation of the transferred property.
(d) If the Department refuses the change in use, encumbrance, or alienation of the property, the municipality shall use and maintain the patrimonial real estate acquired by virtue of this chapter for the same purpose for which it was acquired. However, if the Sports and Recreation Department has previously approved a request from the municipality to such effects, the latter shall make the change in use, encumbrance, or alienation. The Sports and Recreation Department shall notify the municipality of whether its request has been accepted or denied on or before sixty (60) days after the date such request was made.
(e) Should the municipality fail to comply with the maintenance and beautification efforts, or make any changes as to the use and the constitution of lien or alienation of the property without first consulting or obtaining the consent of the Department and in detriment to the purpose of the sports or recreation activities, the ownership and administration of the patrimonial property transferred by virtue of this chapter, shall revert to the Department through a decision of the General Court of Justice of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(f) The legal liability for damages caused by noncompliance with any of the conditions imposed in this section, should there be any for a third party or for the Department, shall be settled by the municipality except when otherwise determined by the General Court of Justice of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
History —Aug. 17, 2001, No. 120, § 7; Dec. 30, 2010, No. 228, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 82 - Municipal Recreational and Sports Community Facilities (§§ 814 — 834) › § 820 - Transfer of structures

The Secretary is hereby empowered to transfer to the municipalities, free of charge and simultaneously with the transfer of the land, the structures contained therein, provided they are the property of the Department.
History —Aug. 17, 2001, No. 120, § 8.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 82 - Municipal Recreational and Sports Community Facilities (§§ 814 — 834) › § 821 - Responsibility of municipality

The acquiring municipalities shall be responsible for taking the following actions according to the laws in effect:
(a) Grant building certificates for those structures that do not appear in the Register and file them with the Property Register to be registered as municipal properties.
(b) Group together or segregate the tracts of land, if necessary.
(c) Determine the value of the structures through assessments conducted by the Municipal Revenue Collection Center.
(d) Request from the Municipal Revenue Collection Center the official property record number corresponding to each facility.
History —Aug. 17, 2001, No. 120, § 9.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 82 - Municipal Recreational and Sports Community Facilities (§§ 814 — 834) › § 822 - Conditions for the transfer of community facilities

(a) The Department reserves the right to fulfill its obligation to supervise the municipalities so they, in turn, fulfill their obligation to provide administrative, maintenance, sanitation and beautification services.
(b) The Department shall pay for the water and electric power consumed by the transferred facilities during their first year after being transferred; the second year it shall pay fifty percent (50%) of such invoices; the third year the municipality shall assume full responsibility. For such a purpose the year shall begin once the certification has been granted, as defined in this chapter.
(c) The Department reserves the right to establish recreational and sports programs in all community facilities without being charged for the right of use in the transferred properties. The Department may not apply this reserved right in those facilities where the municipality is conducting recurrent, programmed and well attended activities.
(d) The Department shall have the subsidiary obligation of ensuring and providing maintenance in those community facilities that are unattended by the municipalities. The maintenance to be provided by the municipalities must never be less than that provided by the Department before said facilities were transferred to the municipalities. Should the Department need to provide said maintenance, the same shall be chargeable to the pertinent municipality.
(e) The Department reserves the right to fine the municipality that fails to fulfill the obligations established in this section, under the criteria established in Act No. 126 of June 13, 1980.
History —Aug. 17, 2001, No. 120, § 10.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 82 - Municipal Recreational and Sports Community Facilities (§§ 814 — 834) › § 823 - Agreement to delegate competence

Should there be an agreement to delegate competence by which the municipality is to be in charge of administering the patrimonial property of the Department, the municipality shall retain administrative and legal responsibility according to the provisions of the agreement until the latter expires or until the municipality obtains ownership of the property.
History —Aug. 17, 2001, No. 120, § 11.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 82 - Municipal Recreational and Sports Community Facilities (§§ 814 — 834) › § 824 - Lease or usufruct contract or agreement

Any lease or usufruct contract or agreement to delegate competence or administration agreement executed between the Department and a municipality which at the time in which the patrimonial property is transferred is in effect, shall immediately [lose] its effectiveness and be resolved by confusion of rights. Likewise, those contract[s] or agreements that had been executed between the Department, the municipalities and recreational, sports and resident associations and resident councils shall remain in effect until the regulations provided in the special provisions note under § 814 of this title, are implemented. The contracts executed between the Department and natural or juridical persons shall continue in effect until their expiration date.
History —Aug. 17, 2001, No. 120, § 12.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 82 - Municipal Recreational and Sports Community Facilities (§§ 814 — 834) › § 825 - Entry and development option contract

Any entry and development option contract as well as any entry and development permit granted by the Department and the municipality which at the time of the transfer of ownership of the patrimonial property is in effect, shall remain in effect under the same clauses and conditions established at the time it was granted. In relation to these contracts, it is hereby provided that the municipality is substituted in place of the Department with the same rights and obligations corresponding to the latter from the date they were granted.
History —Aug. 17, 2001, No. 120, § 13.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 82 - Municipal Recreational and Sports Community Facilities (§§ 814 — 834) › § 826 - Legal liability

The Department retains its legal liability in relation to any matter regarding the property transferred until the moment the certification transferring ownership of the same to the municipality is signed.
History —Aug. 17, 2001, No. 120, § 14.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 82 - Municipal Recreational and Sports Community Facilities (§§ 814 — 834) › § 827 - Assumption of legal liability

After the certification transferring ownership of the property to the municipality has been signed, the latter assumes legal liability with regard to any matter concerning said property henceforth.
History —Aug. 17, 2001, No. 120, § 15.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 82 - Municipal Recreational and Sports Community Facilities (§§ 814 — 834) › § 828 - Public policy of Government

The transfer of ownership of the patrimonial property of the Department to the municipalities in no way means that the Executive Branch of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or the Department are excluded from the implementation of the public policy of the government in the area of sports and recreation. Neither does it mean that Act No. 126 of June 13, 1980, should [lose] its effectiveness. The Department is hereby directed to regulate its responsibilities towards the municipalities and the community organizations within a term of one hundred and twenty (120) days pursuant to the provisions of Act No. 126 of June 13, 1980, the Sports and Recreation Department Organic Act, so as to reconcile the position of the municipality as new owner of the patrimonial property, as provided by virtue of this chapter, with the public policy of the Government and to the provisions of §§ 818 and 819 of this title.
History —Aug. 17, 2001, No. 120, § 16.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 82 - Municipal Recreational and Sports Community Facilities (§§ 814 — 834) › § 829 - Problematic transfer of property

The transfer of ownership of the patrimonial property of the Department ordered and provided by this chapter extends to that property that up to now presents the following problems:
(a) Discrepancy between the juridical and extra-registrar reality.
(b) Defective registration.
(c) Difficulty to identify the property and qualify and classify the same as community property as to whether the land in question is inherited or acquired from the following government agencies: the Public Parks and Recreation Administration, presently the Sports and Recreation Department; the Land Administration; the Department of Housing; the Department of Education; the Department of Transportation and Public Works; and the Planning Board and Urbanization Projects Developers.
In these cases the transfer of the patrimonial property shall be executed in the same manner provided in this chapter, but according to the degree to which each particular situation is being resolved.
History —Aug. 17, 2001, No. 120, § 17.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 82 - Municipal Recreational and Sports Community Facilities (§§ 814 — 834) › § 830 - Exclusion

Such property that at the time of its approval has lost all public usefulness and that for this reason has been released or is in the process of being sold is hereby excluded from the classification of patrimonial community property and from the provisions of this chapter. Those entities responsible for determining the loss of public usefulness of any property shall submit a report to the Legislature within the term of one hundred and eighty (180) days finally indicating what these properties are and where they are located.
History —Aug. 17, 2001, No. 120, § 18.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 82 - Municipal Recreational and Sports Community Facilities (§§ 814 — 834) › § 831 - Transition Committee

In order to make this chapter feasible it is hereby ordered that a Transition Committee be designated. Said Transition Committee must include representatives from the Department, the Secretary, the mayor and the municipal legislature of the corresponding municipality. The representation of the Secretary and the mayor must cover areas such as public policy, legal counseling, real estate, budget and physical infrastructure. The representation of the municipal legislature must include the presidency and the commission in charge of real estate, public works and property acquisition.
History —Aug. 17, 2001, No. 120, § 19.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 82 - Municipal Recreational and Sports Community Facilities (§§ 814 — 834) › § 832 - Transition Committee—Tasks

The Transition Committee shall be in charge of the following tasks:
(a) Department.—
(1) Identify the patrimonial community property.
(2) Request the registration certification from the Property Register.
(3) List by number the patrimonial property and describe the same according to the provisions of subsection[s] (a) and (d) of Section 6 of this Act.
(4) Identify funds.
(5) Coordinate the transfer of ownership of the patrimonial property of the Department to the municipality with the mayor, the President of the municipal legislature and the chairpersons of the corresponding committees.
(b) Municipality.—
(1) The mayor and the municipal legislature shall coordinate the application for and approval of the ordinance for accepting the transfer of the patrimonial property of the Department.
(2) The mayor or his/her designated representative shall file the certification for registering the transfer of the patrimonial property ceded to the municipality with the corresponding Property Register.
(3) The mayor or his/her designated representative must conduct the identification, numbering and description of all structures attached to the real estate of the patrimonial property acquired according to the provisions of § 821 of this title.
History —Aug. 17, 2001, No. 120, § 20.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 82 - Municipal Recreational and Sports Community Facilities (§§ 814 — 834) › § 833 - Funds

The appropriation of recurrent funds in the Sports and Recreation Department is hereby proposed and established for a term of ten (10) years for the implementation of this chapter. This fund shall be used to improve and maintain the facilities that shall be transferred to the municipalities. The appropriation of funds to each municipality must take into consideration the size of the patrimonial property to be transferred, its condition at the time of the transfer and the population of the municipality.
The monies to be appropriated to fulfill the purposes of this chapter shall be exclusively used to make minor improvements and provide maintenance and beautification. They may not be used for making luxury remodeling or for constructions that because of their cost defeat the purpose of enhancing all community facilities and allowing for their daily maintenance.
History —Aug. 17, 2001, No. 120, § 21.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 82 - Municipal Recreational and Sports Community Facilities (§§ 814 — 834) › § 834 - Harmonization with other laws

All laws, rules and regulations in conflict with the provisions of this chapter must be lawfully in harmony with the spirit and purpose of this chapter so that the public policy herein set forth may be minimally infringed on.
History —Aug. 17, 2001, No. 120, § 23.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 84 - Municipalization of Ponce, Caguas, Mayagüez and Arecibo Stadiums (§§ 859 — 872) › § 859 - Definitions

For the purposes of this chapter, the words or phrases listed below shall have the meaning therein indicated, unless another meaning is clearly inferred from the context:
(a) Change of use.— Is any action that leads to a change in the recreational-sports purpose of the stadium for another, be it public or private, or to vary the actual use of the stadium so as to prevent the practice of baseball (and of basketball in the case of the Pachín Vicéns Auditorium). This does not include variations whose purpose is to broaden the type of sports that may be practiced or activities that may be held without impairment to those already indicated.
(b) Certification.— Is the attesting document of ownership that substitutes the public deed, by virtue of which the conditioned transfer of the right of ownership of the stadiums to the municipalities is conducted.
(c) Certification of registration.— Is the certification issued by the Property Registrar regarding what appears in the contents of the Registry (fees and expenses of the real property or registered right, the existence of any document submitted and pending qualification and any other matter included in the Register).
(d) Department.— Is the Sports and Recreation Department restructured by virtue of § 444a of Title 3, part of the law known as the “Sports and Recreation Department Organic Act”.
(e) Stadiums.— Are the following national sports facilities: the Paquito Montaner Park and the Juan Pachín Vicéns Auditorium of Ponce; the Idelfonso Solá Morales Park of Caguas; the Isidoro García Park of Mayagüez; and the Luis Rodríguez Olmo Park of Arecibo. This includes the land where the facility is located and any building therein found, excluding that which is provided in § 871 of this title.
(f) Municipalities.— Includes both the geographic demarcation as well as the juridical entity of the local government of the autonomous municipalities of Ponce, Caguas, Mayagüez and Arecibo.
(g) Municipalization.— Is the conditioned, orderly and free transfer of right of ownership of the stadiums to their respective municipalities, as defined in the present section.
(h) Ordinance.— Is any legislation duly approved within the municipal jurisdiction whose subject is of a general or specific nature and which has indefinite effectiveness. This includes the affirmative expression of the municipal legislature accepting the transfer ordered and provided by this chapter.
(i) Secretary.— Is the Secretary of the Sports and Recreation Department, created by virtue of § 444a of Title 3.
History —Sept. 30, 2004, No. 537, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 84 - Municipalization of Ponce, Caguas, Mayagüez and Arecibo Stadiums (§§ 859 — 872) › § 860 - Transfer—Power

The Secretary shall have the power to transfer free of charge the right of ownership of the Paquito Montaner Park and the Juan Pachín Vicéns Auditorium, the Idelfonso Solá Morales Park, the Isidoro García Park, and the Luis Rodríguez Olmo Park to the autonomous municipalities of Ponce, Caguas, Mayagüez and Arecibo where they are respectively located.
Said transfer shall be conducted according to the procedure and the conditions established in this chapter, subject to the acceptance of the municipalities through an ordinance within a maximum term of eighteen (18) months as of the effective date of this act.
History —Sept. 30, 2004, No. 537, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 84 - Municipalization of Ponce, Caguas, Mayagüez and Arecibo Stadiums (§§ 859 — 872) › § 861 - Eligibility

Only those municipalities that have accepted and acquired right of ownership of the community recreational and sports installations according to the procedure provided by §§ 814–834 of this title, known as the “Municipalization of Community Recreational and Sports Facilities Act”, shall be eligible for receiving the corresponding stadium.
However, in case this has not yet happened, both transfers (of the community facilities and of the stadium) may be conducted simultaneously.
History —Sept. 30, 2004, No. 537, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 84 - Municipalization of Ponce, Caguas, Mayagüez and Arecibo Stadiums (§§ 859 — 872) › § 862 - Conditioned transfer—Requirements

The conditioned transfer of the stadiums to the municipalities shall be conducted through a certification, with the effect of a public deed, according to the procedure and the requirements established below:
(a) The Department shall solicit that the corresponding Property Registry issue a certification of registration for each parcel of land on which the stadiums are built after having identified these.
(b) Once the certification of registration has been issued, the Secretary shall be authorized to conduct the conditioned transfer of the stadium to the corresponding municipality subject to the following directives.
The Secretary and the mayor of the municipality concerned or their authorized representatives shall subscribe a certification including the following information:
(1) Statement of the Secretary or the official authorized by him/her, in representation of the Department, containing their personal information.
(2) Power of the Secretary to conduct the conditioned transfer of the stadiums pursuant to this chapter.
(3) Statement of the mayor or the official authorized by him/her, in representation of the municipality in question, containing their personal information.
(4) Power of the mayor of the municipality concerned to accept the conditioned transfer in representation and on behalf of the municipality.
(5) The following information about the property to be transferred:
(A) Common name by which the facility is known.
(B) Registry description of the property.
(C) Number of property, volume and folio where it is registered.
(D) Section of the Property Registry where it appears registered.
(E) Application for the transfer of the property to the corresponding municipality.
(F) Value of the property being transferred.
(G) Cost of maintenance per year; information that the Department must accredit on the basis of its experience in the last year.
(6) Mention of the ordinance that endorses the transfer, including its date of approval.
(7) Conditions for the transfer being conducted, pursuant to what has been established in §§ 864 and 865 of this title.
(8) Date on which the certification is subscribed.
(9) Signatures of the Secretary and of the mayor of the municipality concerned or of their authorized representatives.
(10) Seal of the Department.
(c) Once the certification has been subscribed, it shall be filed by the mayor with the corresponding Property Registry, free of charge.
History —Sept. 30, 2004, No. 537, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 84 - Municipalization of Ponce, Caguas, Mayagüez and Arecibo Stadiums (§§ 859 — 872) › § 863 - Certification—Documents

The filing of the certification with the Property Registry shall be accompanied by the following documents:
(a) A certified copy of the municipal ordinance authorizing the mayor or his/her representative to accept ownership of the property described in the certification, and
(b) the original and a copy of the introduction minutes required by Sections 31.4 and 31.10 of the General Regulations for the Execution of the Mortgage Law and the Property Registry.
History —Sept. 30, 2004, No. 537, § 6.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 84 - Municipalization of Ponce, Caguas, Mayagüez and Arecibo Stadiums (§§ 859 — 872) › § 864 - Obligations and encumbrances

The conditioned transfer of the right of ownership over the stadiums shall be subject to the obligations and encumbrances that may arise from the Registry at the time of their registration.
History —Sept. 30, 2004, No. 537, § 7.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 84 - Municipalization of Ponce, Caguas, Mayagüez and Arecibo Stadiums (§§ 859 — 872) › § 865 - Title—Restrictive conditions

The title of the property that by virtue of the present is transferred shall be limited pursuant to the following restrictive conditions:
(a) The municipality shall be bound to maintain the use of the recreational and sports activities according to what each facility had been previously designated for and to provide for the administration and maintenance of each. Let it be understood that the Sports and Recreation Department shall defray the expenses for the maintenance of the property for the first two (2) years. Subsequently said item shall be defrayed by each municipality.
(b) The municipality shall be bound to notify the Department, as interested party, by certified mail, about all matters or procedures related to the change of use, or to the constitution of a lien or the alienation of all or part of the properties transferred by virtue of this chapter. Said notice must be forwarded before any steps are taken that tend to change the use of or to encumber or alienate the property.
(c) The determination of the Department shall be deemed to have the force of law for the final resolution concerning the change of use and the encumbrance or alienation of the property transferred.
(d) In case the Department should not consent to the change of use or to the constitution of a lien or to alienation, the municipality shall use and maintain the property.
(e) In case the municipality should fail to comply with the maintenance and beautification of the property or acts unequivocally in order to change the use or encumber or alienate the property without the prior consent of the Department, the right of ownership and the administration of the property transferred by virtue of this chapter, shall revert to the Department through judgment of the General Court of Justice of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(f) The legal liability for damages caused by the failure to comply with any of the conditions imposed in this section, if there should be any concerning a third party [or] the Department, shall be compensated by the municipality.
History —Sept. 30, 2004, No. 537, § 8.