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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART VII - Community Development (§§ 7001 — 8058) › Chapter 201 - Playita Sector Task Force (§§ 7701 — 7707) › § 7704 - Definitions

For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms and phrases shall have the meaning indicated hereinbelow:
(a) Playita Sector. — Means that part of the legally constituted Barrio Santurce which abuts to the northeast on Los Corozos Lagoon, and to the south on Baldorioty de Castro Avenue and Luis Lloréns Torres Public Housing Project, including specifically the El Checo Sector, belonging to the Municipality of San Juan.
(b) Regulations and Permits Administration. — Means the agency created by Act No. 76 of June 24, 1975.
(c) Agency. — Means any department, board, commission, council, company, authority, dependency, or public corporation or subsidiary thereof of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, excluding the Judiciary Branch and the Legislative Branch.
(d) Proprietor. — Means any person who holds a title deed.
(e) Board. — Means the Puerto Rico Planning Board.
(f) Person. — Means any private natural or juridical entity, nonprofit or for profit, including without it being construed as a limitation, any partnership, association, institution, cooperative corporation, trust, entity, group, or group of persons.
(g) Task Force. — Means the Interagency Task Force for the development of Playita Sector of Barrio Santurce, created by this chapter.
History —Aug. 10, 1995, No. 145, § 6; Aug. 29, 2000, No. 215, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART VII - Community Development (§§ 7001 — 8058) › Chapter 201 - Playita Sector Task Force (§§ 7701 — 7707) › § 7705 - Reports

The Task Force shall also have the duty to render an initial report to both Houses upon commencing its endeavors where it shall describe the nature of the development plan designed, along with due indications as to the problems it intends to solve in the sector thereby, as well as any suggestion for legislative reform it deems should be made at that time.
The agencies and entities constituting the Task Force shall ensure that the development plan, once it is conceived and designed for the sector, shall begin to be implemented in the area immediately. Within six (6) months following the implementation of the Plan in said sector, the Task Force shall render a final report to both Houses, in which it shall list the conditions which prevail in the area after the implementation of the Plan, and the progress achieved.
Likewise, the Task Force shall present, along with its final report, any recommendation or request for legislative aid that it deems meritorious. Once the final report has been rendered, the Task Force shall continue to look after the physical, social and economic integrity of Playita Sector permanently, so that the achievements of the Task Force in the area shall remain. The sum of seventy thousand dollars ($70,000) is hereby granted, as a legislative appropriation, for the Task Force to subsidize its work.
History —Aug. 10, 1995, No. 145, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART VII - Community Development (§§ 7001 — 8058) › Chapter 201 - Playita Sector Task Force (§§ 7701 — 7707) › § 7706 - Meetings

The Task Force created hereby shall meet as often as necessary, but not less than once a month.
A majority of the members of the Task Force shall constitute a quorum.
The residents of Playita Sector of Santurce Ward shall have the right to request a meeting with the Task Force, upon the petition of twenty-five (25) persons residing in the area.
History —Aug. 10, 1995, No. 145, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART VII - Community Development (§§ 7001 — 8058) › Chapter 201 - Playita Sector Task Force (§§ 7701 — 7707) › § 7707 - Inclusion of El Checo Sector

(a) The Task Force created by § 7704 of this title shall render an initial report to both Legislative Houses on the inclusion of the El Checo Sector in its works.
(b) The El Checo Sector and all its residents are hereby considered to be a part of the purpose sought by this chapter for all pertinent legal purposes.
History —Aug. 10, 1995, No. 145, added as § 8 on Aug. 29, 2000, No. 215, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART VII - Community Development (§§ 7001 — 8058) › Chapter 202 - Coordinating Committee for the Acquisition of and Access to Geographic Information (§§ 7711-7717 — 7717) › §§ 7711—7717 - Repealed. Act Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 7.01

History —Sept. 9, 2000, No. 398, § 1, eff. 1 year after Sept. 9, 2000; Repealed. Act.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART VII - Community Development (§§ 7001 — 8058) › Chapter 202 - Coordinating Committee for the Acquisition of and Access to Geographic Information (§§ 7711-7717 — 7717) › § 7712 - Definitions [Repealed]

History —Sept. 9, 2000, No. 398, § 2, eff. 1 year after Sept. 9, 2000; Repealed. Act.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART VII - Community Development (§§ 7001 — 8058) › Chapter 202 - Coordinating Committee for the Acquisition of and Access to Geographic Information (§§ 7711-7717 — 7717) › § 7713 - Composition [Repealed]

History —Sept. 9, 2000, No. 398, § 3, eff. 1 year after Sept. 9, 2000; Repealed. Act.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART VII - Community Development (§§ 7001 — 8058) › Chapter 202 - Coordinating Committee for the Acquisition of and Access to Geographic Information (§§ 7711-7717 — 7717) › § 7714 - Powers and responsibilities [Repealed]

History —Sept. 9, 2000, No. 398, § 4, eff. 1 year after Sept. 9, 2000; Repealed. Act.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART VII - Community Development (§§ 7001 — 8058) › Chapter 202 - Coordinating Committee for the Acquisition of and Access to Geographic Information (§§ 7711-7717 — 7717) › § 7715 - Administrator of the Puerto Rico Geographic Data System [Repealed]

History —Sept. 9, 2000, No. 398, § 5, eff. 1 year after Sept. 9, 2000; Repealed. Act.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART VII - Community Development (§§ 7001 — 8058) › Chapter 202 - Coordinating Committee for the Acquisition of and Access to Geographic Information (§§ 7711-7717 — 7717) › § 7716 - Powers and duties of the Administrator [Repealed]

History —Sept. 9, 2000, No. 398, § 6, eff. 1 year after Sept. 9, 2000; Repealed. Act.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART VII - Community Development (§§ 7001 — 8058) › Chapter 202 - Coordinating Committee for the Acquisition of and Access to Geographic Information (§§ 7711-7717 — 7717) › § 7717 - Allocation of funding [Repealed]

History —Sept. 9, 2000, No. 398, § 7, eff. 1 year after Sept. 9, 2000; Repealed. Act.
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) › § 7718 - Public policy

The mission of the State is, in modern society, to provide citizens with tools and opportunities that allow them to attain the highest quality of life. Areas such as housing, security, the development of small- and medium-sized business, and job creation, among others, are essential elements to achieve such goal.
It is hereby declared to be the public policy of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico the establishment of a mechanism, such as the one provided for in this chapter, that gathers in an orderly and well-planned manner, on a single multi-layer map, information that is critical for an adequate urban, rural, economic, and social planning, as well as for meeting the different demands and challenges of the 21 st century society.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 1.01.
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) › § 7718a - Scope and interpretation with other laws

This chapter shall be construed to prevail over any other laws in effect as of the effective date thereof that poses or may be construed as posing an obstacle to the attainment of the objectives of this chapter. Any statute or regulations thus affected shall be deemed to be amended to conform to the provisions of this chapter.
Any administrative order, circular letter, memorandum, or interpretive document of the Planning Board, the Permit Management Office, Government entities concerned and Autonomous Municipalities with I to V granted hierarchy in connection with any matter covered under this chapter shall be evaluated and amended, as appropriate, within the terms provided for the approval and adoption of the regulations created in accordance with this chapter. Any administrative order, circular letter, memorandum, or interpretive document that is inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter or the regulations thereunder shall be null and ineffective in all that pertains to the provisions set forth herein.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 1.03.
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 II - Puerto Rico Surveyor’s Office (§§ 7719 — 7719e) › § 7719 - Creation

The Puerto Rico Surveyor’s Office (hereinafter, the Office) is hereby created attached to the Permit Management Office (hereinafter, the OGPe) with the powers conferred under this chapter and the regulations approved thereunder, in charge of coordinating, storing, managing, without being construed as a limitation, geographic or geospatial information of the Island and provide and regulate all that pertains to the guidelines and rules for the administration of the CPRGIS, the Map, and the SPCS, in accordance with the standards of the Federal Geographic Data Committee for the National Spatial Data Infrastructure and the Access Platform.
The main duty of the Office shall be to establish data collection and transmission guidelines, formats, and rules, act as recipient of such data, establish adequate mechanisms to access said resources, and provide technical assistance to the OGPe in surveying-related matters; however, in very particular cases that are favorable for the public policy, it may carry out surveying works. The personnel of the Office shall not exceed those provided herein.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 2.01.
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 II - Puerto Rico Surveyor’s Office (§§ 7719 — 7719e) › § 7719a - State Surveyor, appointment, personnel, and responsibilities

The State Surveyor shall be the Director of the Office and be appointed by Governor with the recommendation of the Executive Director of the OGPe and the advice and consent of the Senate of Puerto Rico. The person appointed to the office of State Surveyor shall be a licensed surveyor authorized to practice said profession in Puerto Rico and with proven capability, knowledge, and vast experience in the field of surveying and planning. No person may be considered for the position of State Surveyor if such person has been elected to an elective office, even though he/she has resigned to such office after his/her election, until two (2) years have elapsed from the time such person ceased to hold such office. This limitation also applies to those persons who have been candidates for an elective office in the general elections, until two (2) years have elapsed from the time such event was held.
The Governor may declare a vacancy in such office by reason of physical or mental disability that prevents the person from performing the duties of the office, negligence in the performance of the duties of the office, failure to comply with the duties of the office, or upon conviction of a criminal offense. In the event of a permanent vacancy in the office of State Surveyor, before the expiration of the term of appointment, a successor shall be appointed for the remainder of the unexpired term of his/her predecessor.
The State Surveyor shall be in charge, with the approval of the Executive Director of the OGPe, of establishing the internal organizational structure of the Office, designating assistant officials, and planning, directing, and supervising the operations thereof, to achieve the purposes of this chapter. Specifically, the State Surveyor, with the authorization of the Executive Director of The OGPe shall appoint two (2) additional officials, who shall be: one (1) land surveyor, either professional, associate or in training; and one (1) person with knowledge and skills in information technologies and cadaster who holds a bachelor’s degree in any of the following areas: cartography, geography, geomatics or topography or a master’s degree in any aforementioned areas, or in urban planning or geospatial systems.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 2.02.
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 II - Puerto Rico Surveyor’s Office (§§ 7719 — 7719e) › § 7719c - Advisory Liaison Committee

An Advisory Liaison Committee, hereinafter the Committee, is hereby established with the Government entities concerned, to be composed of eleven (11) members, to wit: the Executive Director of CRIM, who shall preside it; two (2) members shall be mayors, of which one (1) shall belong to the political party controlling the highest number of municipalities, to be elected by a majority of mayors members of said party, and one (1) shall belong to the political party that controls the second highest number of municipalities, to be elected by a majority of mayors members of said party; one (1) authorized representative of the following entities: the Planning Board, the Property Registry, the Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, the Electric Power Authority, the Department of Transportation and Public Works, the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, the Department of Economic Development and Commerce, and one (1) duly-licensed surveyor recommended by the mayors of the majority and minority parties and ratified by the Governor.
The functions of the Committee shall include, but not limited to, the following:
(a) To provide technical advice to the Office and the OGPe.
(b) To participate and make recommendations to establish the criteria regulatory standards that shall govern the processes of the CPRGIS, the Map, the SPCS, and the Access Platform, among others.
(c) To make efforts to achieve consistency between the information of the Property Registry, the Cadaster, the CPRGIS, and the Map.
(d) To serve as liaison between the agencies it represents, as well as the Government entities concerned, to achieve effective communication in connection with the rules established by the Office and the OGPe.
(e) Any other function assigned by the Director.
Any decision that directly affects municipalities shall have the affirmative vote of every mayor who is a member of the Committee.
The Committee may, upon previous consultation with the Executive Director of the OGPe, hire additional personnel to carry out its duties and may designate work groups from both the public and the private sector in any area it deems appropriate.
The Committee shall hold as many meetings as called by the Director, but never less than four (4) meetings a year.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 2.04.
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 II - Puerto Rico Surveyor’s Office (§§ 7719 — 7719e) › § 7719d - Payment of stamps

As of the effective date of this act, a stamp of the Office shall be affixed to any construction plan or any amendments thereto filed with the Permit Management Office, Autonomous Municipalities with I to V granted hierarchy or authorized professional in order to be processed by the pertinent government entities.
The applicant shall pay a fee to be established by regulations. Such payment shall be made according to the method or mechanism established by the OGPe.
The fees to be paid for a copy of publications, studies, reports, maps, plans, pictures, and any other public document required shall also be fixed and collected as provided by regulations.
The Executive Director of the OGPe shall fix and collect, as prescribed in the regulations adopted for such purposes, the application fees or charges and the means to make such payments. In addition, he/she shall receive the fees and charges paid by applicants to authorized professionals, which shall be remitted by the latter to the OGPe in accordance with the requirements established by the OGPe in compliance with the applicable laws and regulations.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 2.05.
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 II - Puerto Rico Surveyor’s Office (§§ 7719 — 7719e) › § 7719e - Budget and Special Fund

The funds needed to achieve the purposes of this chapter for the present and subsequent fiscal years shall be earmarked annually in the budget of the OGPe. All moneys received by the OGPe, as a result of the implementation of the provisions of this chapter by the Office, from sources specified herein and from any other sources shall be deposited in a Special Fund which shall be known as the “Puerto Rico Surveyor’s Office Special Fund.”
All charges, fees, refunds, or payments received by the OGPe as a result of the implementation of the provisions of this chapter by the Office shall be deposited in a Special Fund created for such purposes in the Department of the Treasury to defray the regular operating expenses of the Office. Any surplus at the end of the fiscal year shall remain in the Special Fund.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 2.06.
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 III - Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Geospatial Information System (§§ 7720 — 7720c) › § 7720 - Creation of the System

The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Geospatial Information System, hereinafter the CPRGIS, is hereby established to be attached to and supervised and administered by the Office. The CPRGIS is an integrated geospatial information and digital mapping central system that interrelates different databases and serves to store any geospatial data collected, purchased, or produced by any government entity and/or natural or juridical person, as defined in this chapter.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 3.01.
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 III - Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Geospatial Information System (§§ 7720 — 7720c) › § 7720a - Purpose

The purpose of the CPRGIS implemented by the Office is to have the capacity to keep and administer a multi-purpose multi-scale database. The CPRGIS is the database that shall feed the Map and the Map’s Access Platform established in this chapter.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 3.02.
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 III - Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Geospatial Information System (§§ 7720 — 7720c) › § 7720b - Obligation of authorized professional and/or Government entities concerned

The Government entities concerned and/or authorized professionals producing or updating geospatial data, directly or indirectly, as part of their planning or permit-granting process, administration or operations in the case of Government entities concerned shall be required to furnish such information to the Office and comply with the geospatial information rules and standardization models created by the same.
The Office may, through the OGPe, enter into agreements to facilitate and expedite the updating of information that the Government entities concerned covered under this chapter are required to furnish to such Office. However, the updating of such information shall, in no case, exceed a term of twelve (12) months.
Government agencies and instrumentalities, municipalities, and public corporations shall train and/or hire a technician or any other professional to manage the CPRGIS in accordance with the parameters established by the Office.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 3.03.
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 III - Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Geospatial Information System (§§ 7720 — 7720c) › § 7720c - Functions, duties, and prerogatives

The Office shall have, with the authorization and coordination of the OGPe, the following duties, responsibilities, and prerogatives:
(a) To identify, propose, and recommend any actions to be taken to meet the requirements of the CPRGIS.
(b) To serve as the CPRGIS information distribution center and be the body authorized to make determinations in connection with the information contained in said system.
(c) To draft rules regarding the availability, quality, and accuracy of the information based on the rules established therefor by the Federal Geographic Data Committee and prescribe the fees for the use of the CPRGIS services.
(d) To require every Government entity concerned and/or authorized professional that produce or update geospatial information, directly or indirectly, as part of its planning or permit-granting process, to present in the format provided by the Office a copy of the data or information of its transactions to be entered into the CPRGIS.
(e) To adopt the appropriate procedures to make the information of the CPRGIS readily available to the public as allowed by the law, unless such information is deemed to be confidential or restricted as provided by law or the compelling interest of the State.
(f) To provide every Government entity concerned with any information they may require and assist such entities in making final determinations, recommendations, and any other matters inherent thereto, by virtue of the provisions of this chapter and all other applicable laws and regulations.
(g) To serve as hub for conducting government transactions regarding the receipt of funds, particularly federal funds, for the development of the CPRGIS.
(h) To adopt regulations for the operation of all that pertains to the CPRGIS, the Map, and the Access Platform.
(i) Any other action deemed necessary and convenient to effectively attain the objectives of this chapter.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 3.04.
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 IV - Puerto Rico Multi-purpose Multi-scale Map (§§ 7721 — 7721e) › § 7721 - Official Map

The Puerto Rico Multi-purpose Multi-scale Map, hereinafter the Map, under the Office, shall be the official base map of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the instrumentalities, municipalities, and public corporations thereof.
The Map is a digital tool developed as part of the CPRGIS that is composed of layers of geodetic network, orthoimagery, planimetric, and cadastral information, overlaid in a high-accuracy and updated georeference system.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 4.01.
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 IV - Puerto Rico Multi-purpose Multi-scale Map (§§ 7721 — 7721e) › § 7721a - Purpose

The purpose and goal of the Map is to be the cadastral consultation, modeling, storage, and updating tool that allows for the maintenance of an accurate, updated and actual parcel registry. The Map shall also serve for urban planning and research, without it being understood as a limitation, in areas such as housing, economy, security, and tourism, among others.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 4.02.
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 IV - Puerto Rico Multi-purpose Multi-scale Map (§§ 7721 — 7721e) › § 7721b - Survey markers

In the case of public or private construction works, in addition to any other requirement herein established, it shall be the duty of the developer to place survey markers, with the purpose of facilitating survey works to be conducted there in the future. Once the construction works are finished, the markers shall be property of the OGPe. The need, type, location, specifications, and number of survey markers as well as all that pertains to the use, protection, and penalties for vandalism or destruction shall be prescribed by regulations.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 4.03.
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 IV - Puerto Rico Multi-purpose Multi-scale Map (§§ 7721 — 7721e) › § 7721c - Payment of fees

The process to issue copies of plans, documents, and technical information from or related to the Map, as well as the fees to be paid therefor shall be prescribed by regulations.
However, the Director shall provide free copies to persons or nonprofit organizations that meet the indigent status criteria or for the purposes prescribed by regulations.
Government agencies and instrumentalities, municipalities, and public corporations required by this chapter to furnish information to the Office shall have free and full access to the Maps” database unless otherwise provided for security or public policy reasons.
Requests from the Legislative Assembly shall be exempt from fees.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 4.04.
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 IV - Puerto Rico Multi-purpose Multi-scale Map (§§ 7721 — 7721e) › § 7721d - Duty to cooperate

The agencies, the departments, and instrumentalities of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, public corporations and municipal governments shall be required to cooperate with the establishment and maintenance of the Map.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 4.05.
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 IV - Puerto Rico Multi-purpose Multi-scale Map (§§ 7721 — 7721e) › § 7721e - Rulemaking authority

The Office shall promulgate regulations as are necessary to enforce and implement the provisions of this subchapter.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 4.06.
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 V - State Plane Coordinate System (§§ 7722 — 7722c) › § 7722 - Adoption

The State Plane Coordinates System, hereinafter the SPCS, with the Lambert Conic Conformal Projections method shall be the official mapping system for all agencies, instrumentalities, and municipalities of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, in order to standardize the use of cartographic projections by government bodies. It is further provided that the central government shall adopt the Datum the that the State Surveyor’s Office deems appropriate through regulations to ensure that it is consistent with the most recent revision or change recommended by the United States National Geodetic Survey (NGS) to be standard for all public agencies and instrumentalities.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 5.01.
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 V - State Plane Coordinate System (§§ 7722 — 7722c) › § 7722a - Certification of geospatial positions

Every geographical location or position submitted to any agency, instrumentality or municipality of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall comply with one (1) of the following alternatives:
(a) In the case of location of structures, buildings or constructions, it shall be certified by an authorized professional, pursuant to the provisions of §§ 711 et seq. of Title 20, known as the “Puerto Rico Board of Examiners of Engineers, Architects, Surveyors and Landscape Architects”.
(b) In the case of studies, research, or evaluations of technical or scientific nature, it shall include a sworn statement of the person submitting it, including, at least, the following information:
(1) The surveying equipment used, that is, if it is a global positioning system equipment or a conventional one, as well as the equipment’s brand name, model, and maximum accuracy.
(2) The Geodetic Reference System or Datum or GEOID employed when measuring as well as the exact time and date.
(3) Time required for measuring, expressed in hours: minutes: seconds or as established by regulations.
(4) Any other information required by the OGPe.
All the agencies, instrumentalities and municipalities of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, to which a certification of the geospatial location or position of a structure, property, project, development, scientific, or technical study is submitted, shall adopt an official document or form prepared by the Office for such purposes. Said official document or form shall provide all public entities with the certification methods for location or position, as established in subsections (a) and (b) of this section.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 5.02.
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 V - State Plane Coordinate System (§§ 7722 — 7722c) › § 7722b - Infrastructure

The OGPe, for use by the Office, shall acquire the hardware, software, and infrastructure needed to maintain and operate the SPCS. The Office with the authorization and in coordination with the OGPe may outsource all that pertains to the management and establishment of said system to attain the objectives of this chapter.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 5.03.
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 V - State Plane Coordinate System (§§ 7722 — 7722c) › § 7722c - Access regulation and payment

Everything relative to the regulations, uniform guidelines, processes, as well as the fees to be collected for accessing and using the SPCS and any other matter related to this subchapter shall be prescribed by the OGPe and the Office through regulations.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 5.04.
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 VI - Access Platform (§§ 7723 — 7723d) › § 7723 - Access Platform

It shall be the primary duty and responsibility of the OGPe, through the Office, to establish an Access Platform to the CPRGIS, the Map, and the SPCS that is efficient, modern, and easily accessible for all agencies, instrumentalities and departments of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, municipalities, and public corporations as well as for authorized professionals and natural and juridical persons in general.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 6.01.
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 VI - Access Platform (§§ 7723 — 7723d) › § 7723a - Confidential information

The Office shall establish the access guidelines and rules, safeguarding confidential or restricted information that must be maintained within the system, but out of natural or juridical person’s reach.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 6.02.
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 VI - Access Platform (§§ 7723 — 7723d) › § 7723b - Infrastructure

The OGPe shall acquire, for use by the Office, the hardware, software, and infrastructure needed to ensure a dynamic and modern Access Platform that allows for the establishment of information in a multi-purpose multi-scale form. The Office with the authorization and in coordination with the OGPe may outsource all that pertains to the management and establishment of said Access Platform to attain the objectives of this chapter.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 6.03.
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 VI - Access Platform (§§ 7723 — 7723d) › § 7723c - General principles of the Platform

The Access Platform shall operate through the use of a computerized information system whereby:
(a) Applicants shall file electronically any required document, swiftly and reliably.
(b) Interested individuals may access the information in the CPRGIS, the Map, and the SPCS over the Internet.
(c) Government entities concerned and authorized professionals may access information as needed to discharge their duties in accordance with this chapter.
(d) Permit Managers, Permit Officers and the Director of the Environmental Compliance Assessment Division, authorized professionals and Autonomous Municipalities with I to V granted hierarchy may use the CPRGIS, the Map, and the SPCS to issue final determinations and permits according to the conditions established by regulations.
(e) The legal provisions applicable to public documents and electronic signatures and any applicable other law or regulation shall be complied with.
(f) Strategies directed to actively incorporate the use of information and telecommunications technologies in the operations of the Platform shall be developed.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 6.04.
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 VI - Access Platform (§§ 7723 — 7723d) › § 7723d - Access fees

The Office shall prescribe by regulations the fees and charges to be paid by authorized professionals and the general public to use the Access Platform. It shall also fix and collect, by regulations for such purposes, the corresponding fees to obtain copies of publications, studies, reports, maps, plans, pictures, and any other public document required.
Government agencies and instrumentalities, municipalities, and public corporation required under this chapter to furnish information to the Office may have free access to the Platform, unless otherwise provided due to security or public policy reasons.
However, the Director may allow access to the Platform free of charge to persons or nonprofit organizations that meet the indigent status criteria or the purposes prescribed by regulations.
Requests from the Legislative Assembly shall be exempt from fees.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 6.05.
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 VII - Particular Provisions (§§ 7724 — 7724b) › § 7724 - Fines

The Executive Director of the OGPe may impose administrative fines in an amount of not less than five thousand ($5,000) dollars nor more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for each violation of the provisions of this chapter.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 7.01.
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 VII - Particular Provisions (§§ 7724 — 7724b) › § 7724a - Annual reports

The Executive Director of the OGPe shall draft and send an annual report not later than ninety (90) days after the close of the fiscal year to the Governor and the Legislative Assembly on the operations and fiscal situation of the Office, the implementation of the CPRGIS, the Map, the SPCS, and the Access Platform, its achievements, addressed issues, along with any recommendations deemed pertinent for its efficient operations. The report shall contain compliance with the established benchmarks.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 7.02.
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 VII - Particular Provisions (§§ 7724 — 7724b) › § 7724b - Successor entity

For all practical and legal purposes, the OGPe and the Office are hereby declared as the successor entities with regard to all matters and provisions related to Act No. 398-2000 and Act No. 264-2002.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 7.03.
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 VIII - Final Provisions (§ 7725) › § 7725 - Prohibition regarding personnel dismissal / Government Mapping Divisions

None of the provisions of this chapter shall be interpreted or used to justify the dismissal of personnel in any agency, department, and instrumentalities of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, municipality, and public corporation producing or updating geospatial information, directly or indirectly, as part of the planning or permit-granting processes, administration or operations thereof.
Likewise, the provisions of the Organic Act and the regulations thereunder of any agency, department, and instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, municipality, and public corporation that has a mapping division shall govern the process of hiring and retaining personnel and the provisions of this chapter regarding said issue shall not apply to the same.
History —Nov. 10, 2014, No. 184, § 9.01.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART VII - Community Development (§§ 7001 — 8058) › Chapter 221 - Artisanry Development Program (§§ 8001 — 8013) › § 8001 - Statement of purposes

By means of this chapter, the Artisanry Development Program is hereby created in the Industrial Development Company, in order to provide our artisans with the technical assistance they require with regard to the management of their workshops, as well as the promotion, marketing, distribution and sale of their products. The granting of financial assistance for the better functioning of their workshops, and the organization of centers where they can produce, exhibit, distribute and sell Puerto Rican artisanry, stimulate the diffusion of this artistic field within and outside Puerto Rico, and encourage the mutual cooperation among the artisans, is also provided.
Since the cooperative model has a high public interest, it is provided further that the Industrial Development Company together with the Cooperative Development Administration shall encourage our artisans to convert their workshops into cooperative businesses.
History —Aug. 11, 1995, No. 166, § 2; Sept. 21, 2007, No. 124, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART VII - Community Development (§§ 7001 — 8058) › Chapter 221 - Artisanry Development Program (§§ 8001 — 8013) › § 8002 - Definitions

For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms and phrases shall have the meanings stated hereinbelow:
(a) Executive Director. — Shall mean the Executive Director of the Industrial Development Company.
(b) Artisanry. — Shall mean a piece of work that has been fundamentally or essentially created or produced manually, which reflects the creativity of its producer and the cultural traits of Puerto Rico.
(c) Puerto Rican Artisanry. — Shall mean an artisanry product that meets the characteristics usually recognized in the same, as specified in the Program, such as:
(1) It is produced in Puerto Rico;
(2) by a Puerto Rican or by a person who has a bona fide residence in Puerto Rico;
(3) uses local raw material as much as possible;
(4) is crafted by hand or with the artisan’s tools, equipment or instruments that expedite or perfect his/her labor;
(5) it follows the original design of the artisan;
(6) no commercial patterns or models are used, except when the same are creations of the artisan him/herself;
(7) its themes are inspired on the various aspects of Puerto Rican culture, such as its the history, fauna, flora, symbols, traditions and customs of the Puerto Rican society, and preserve the typical characteristics thereof, although they are new creations in which new developments of such themes are explored;
(8) universal themes, such as love, fraternity, peace and others, are inspired on the personal experiences of the artist.
(d) Artisans. — Shall mean every natural person residing in Puerto Rico, who, through of his/her ability and skills creates, mainly by hand, a work called artisanry, as defined in this chapter.
(e) Corporation. — Shall mean the Puerto Rico Agricultural and Commercial Development and Credit Corporation, attached to the Economic Development Bank of Puerto Rico, by virtue of Act No. 1 of August 21, 1990.
(f) Director. — Shall mean the Director of the Artisanry Development Program.
(g) Board. — Shall mean the Program’s Advisory Board, duly constituted, pursuant to § 8009 of this title.
(h) Person. — Shall mean every natural or juridical person, entity or group of a public or private nature.
(i) Program. — Shall mean the Artisanry Development Program attached to the Industrial Development Company.
History —Aug. 11, 1995, No. 166, § 3; Sept. 21, 2007, No. 124, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART VII - Community Development (§§ 7001 — 8058) › Chapter 221 - Artisanry Development Program (§§ 8001 — 8013) › § 8003 - Creation of the program

The Artisanry Development Program, attached to the Economic Development Administration, is hereby established, with the following ends and purposes:
(1) Implement the Artisanry Development Program, which is established by means of this chapter.
(2) Promote the creation of Puerto Rican artisanry, through encouraging the establishment of workshops and granting assistance for the acquisition of tools, equipment and machinery.
(3) Facilitate training and advice on new techniques for the production and design of artisanry.
(4) Encourage the celebration of exhibitions, expositions and fairs, which facilitate the selling of Puerto Rican artisanry.
(5) Stimulate and develop in the children, youths and adults of our Island, the admiration and pride of artisanry as a cultural expression and as a means to develop their creative talent and artistic skills.
(6) Stimulate the establishment of individual and/or collective artisan work shops and the fusion of existing ones, through a specific program of credits, guarantees and subsidies, as provided by this chapter or in collaboration with the Economic Development Administration, the Agricultural and Commercial Development and Credit Corporation of Puerto Rico and the Economic Development Bank of Puerto Rico.
(7) Train candidates as artisanry promoters, who are essential for the future of the Puerto Rico artisanry, for those public agencies that designated them, pursuant to § 8004(d) of this title.
(8) Issue an identification card for the artisan who requests it.
(9) The service of issuing this identification card shall be continuous, during every working day of the year.
(10) It shall keep a registry of all the holders of this identification with the photograph of the artisans.
(11) The requirements and procedures to issue this identification shall be stipulated by the Board.
(12) These requirements and procedures shall not constitute an evaluation procedure.
(13) The system to issue this identification shall be computerized.
(14) The date to initiate the process of issuing this identification card shall begin 120 days after the effective date of this act.
(15) The Board, together with the Director, shall design, plan and develop an interagency procedure to negotiate among themselves any petition or service related to the artisans.
(16) Each agency shall keep an updated copy of the general registry of artisans.
(17) Adopt the regulations and/or procedures needed to accomplish the purposes of this chapter, pursuant to §§ 2101 et seq. of Title 3.
History —Aug. 11, 1995, No. 166, § 4.