2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 63 - Sale of Parcels to Usufructuaries or Occupants (§§ 681 — 697) › § 692 - Regulation requirements

The Agregados Reinstatement Program established under the provisions of Title V of the Land Law, §§ 551—556 of this title, shall continue in force, as well as the following provisions of the regulations in force on the distribution and administration of parcels:
Candidates’ requisites .—
(a) They should be bona fide agregados, that is, a family head residing in the rural zone, whose home is erected on lands belonging to another person or to a private or public entity, whose only means of livelihood is his labor for a wage and who does not possess lands as owner.
(b) The Housing Development and Improvements Administration may discretionally extend the benefits of Title V of the Land Law, §§ 551—556 of this title, to persons residing in the urban zone who meet the other requisites, provided they earn their wages in agricultural labors and to persons residing in the rural zones who do not earn wages in agricultural labors.
(c) Such persons who have sufficient economic means or whose income in the judgment of the Housing Development and Improvements Administration permit them to acquire lands without the assistance of the Housing Development and Improvements Administration, are not eligible.
(d) Through a parcel lease contract, the Housing Development and Improvements Administration may extend the benefits of Title V, §§ 551—556 of this title, to teachers of public education, to religious ministers and peace officers who work in such rural communities.
Selection of candidates and adjudication of parcels.—
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(c) In the investigations preference shall be given to persons who live on the farm, object of the expropriation. Preference shall be given in second place to families living as agregados on the farms contiguous to the farm acquired. In the third place, preference shall be given to all such families as agregados in the neighboring barrios within the municipal boundaries.
(d) The adjudication of parcels among the accepted candidates shall be made by a drawing, except as to such agregados residing on the farm to be allotted and to whom shall be adjudicated without the need of a drawing the parcel whereon they have erected the house or the parcel closest thereto in the event that the location of the house prevent the lotting of the farm.
(e) Agregados not winning a parcel in a drawing shall have preference in the following drawings to be made in the same barrio or adjacent barrios.
Any amendment to the preceding provisions of said regulation shall be approved by the Legislature. The persons who have acquired or may acquire parcels under this program after June 1, 1968, may have them in perpetual usufruct, or choose the title deed on the same once they have occupied said parcels as their domiciles.
Likewise the title deed shall be granted to an usufructuary who, although he does not reside on the adjudicated parcel because no structure exists thereupon, can properly prove that he proposes to build it, as well as the arrangements he is making to obtain the financing that would allow him to build, with the understanding that these arrangements must be accredited by a certificate issued by the financial source with which the usufructuary is negotiating the loan; Provided, That the writ through which the title deed is granted shall be executed simultaneously with the Mortgage Constitution Deed which guarantees the loan, which shall be executed before a notary public paid by the institution financing the loan. When the existing regulations of the institution financing the loan do not provide for the payment of the fees for the Mortgage Constitution Deed, the corresponding amount shall be added to the amount of the loan. The Secretary of Housing shall grant the title deeds pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
History —June 14, 1969, No. 35, p. 60, § 12; Apr. 9, 1974, No. 8, Part 1, p. 109; June 20, 1977, No. 77, p. 157, § 2; June 20, 1978, No. 12, p. 396.