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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 73 - Taxicabs and Other Vehicles (§§ 2051 — 2063) › § 2053 - Medallion—Requirements for alienation

The Commission shall not authorize the alienation or the encumbrance of a medallion unless satisfactory proof is furnished that it shall not be in prejudice of the public service. No transaction shall impair the right of the holder to exercise the activity permitted by the authorization or franchise.
History —June 8, 1972, No. 7, p. 353, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 73 - Taxicabs and Other Vehicles (§§ 2051 — 2063) › § 2054 - Registry of eligibles and medallions

The Commission shall prepare a registry of eligibles wherein shall be set down in strict order of presentation the names and pertinent data of all applicants for authorizations to operate a motor vehicle engaged in the transportation of purchased goods and passengers as an activity that is incidental to the main service, a motor vehicle engaged in the transportation of students, a motor vehicle engaged in hauling general freight and a motor vehicle wholly engaged in the transportation or hauling of aggregates for industrial or commercial purposes or any person engaged in such activity, as these two (2) terms are defined in §§ 2001—2014 of this title, that qualify therefor.
It shall, likewise, prepare a registry of the medallions granted, which shall reflect, with exactness, all the transactions made on said medallions under the provisions of this chapter, including the cancellation or settlement of those transactions at their termination.
It shall be the duty of every holder of a medallion to notify the Commission of the cancellation or settlement of any lien transaction made with his/her medallion within thirty (30) days after having made the cancellation or the settlement.
The registry of eligibles and the registry of medallions shall be available for inspections by the holders, as well as by interested parties, or those who could be affected by any transaction in which a medallion is the object. By petition by any of the persons mentioned herein, the Commission may issue a certificate as to the contents of the registration of a medallion. The applicant shall pay ten dollars ($10) in cash, money order or certified check for each certification.
History —June 8, 1972, No. 7, p. 353, § 4; June 11, 1976, No. 3, p. 652, § 4; June 13, 1977, No. 61, p. 127, § 2; June 28, 1978, No. 83, p. 266, § 2; July 12, 1979, No. 92, p. 231, § 2; Dec. 8, 1990, No. 31, p. 1533, § 3; Dec. 19, 2002, No. 282, § 73, eff. 180 days after Dec. 19, 2002.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 73 - Taxicabs and Other Vehicles (§§ 2051 — 2063) › § 2055 - Nullity of transactions

Any alienation or lien transaction of a medallion made without the prior authorization of the Commission shall be null and void.
(a) The determination of nullity shall entail the cancellation of the franchise or authorization that the medallion represents, and the latter shall be returned immediately to the Commission.
(b) The holder of a medallion who alienates or encumbers it without the previous authorization of the Commission shall be ineligible to obtain a new franchise or authorization for a term of five (5) years reckoned from the date of the determination of nullity.
(c) The natural person who has made a lien or alienation transaction on a medallion without the previous approval of the Commission shall be in like manner withdrawn from the registry of eligibles. If his name is not recorded in such registry, he shall be ineligible to be included therein, in either of these two (2) cases, for a term of five (5) years reckoned from the date of the determination of nullity.
(d) In case the creditor is a private person or a bank, financial institution or a natural or juridical person engaged in the operation of a loan business, the determination of nullity shall entail the imposition of an administrative fine of ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
History —June 8, 1972, No. 7, p. 353, § 5; Dec. 8, 1990, No. 31, p. 1533, § 4, eff. 60 days after Dec. 8, 1990.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 73 - Taxicabs and Other Vehicles (§§ 2051 — 2063) › § 2057 - Robbery, larceny, loss, destruction or mutilation

(a) In case of robbery, larceny, loss or destruction of a medallion, its holder shall, within the following twenty-four (24) hours notify the Commission of such happening. Such notice shall be made by sworn declaration in which the holder shall state the circumstances in which the medallion was stolen, lost or destroyed, as well as the names of witnesses and any other information that the Commission may require for the transaction of the case. The Commission shall forthwith proceed to enter this fact in the registry of medallions and shall not allow any transaction on the medallion within the following twenty (20) days. If after said lapse of time the medallion is not recovered, its holder may ask the Commission to issue a new medallion. The Commission shall, after having verified that the holder has made every kind of effort to recover the medallion, issue a duplicate thereof.
(b) In the event of an involuntary mutilation of a medallion, there shall be followed the same transaction of notice and investigation as above-stated for the cases of robbery, loss or destruction, except that the Commission shall not issue a new medallion, but shall substitute the mutilated one with another medallion bearing the same number and date of the original.
(c) In any of the cases stated herein, the holder shall pay the sum of fifty dollars ($50) in cash, postal money order or certified check to the Commission.
History —June 8, 1972, No. 7, p. 353, § 7; Dec. 8, 1990, No. 31, p. 1533, § 5, eff. 60 days after Dec. 8, 1990.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 73 - Taxicabs and Other Vehicles (§§ 2051 — 2063) › § 2058 - Death or disability of holder

(a) If a holder dies or becomes temporarily or permanently disabled, his heirs or minor dependents and the wife or woman who has maritally cohabitated with the holder at the time of his death or disability, may request from the Commission to lease the medallion to one of the persons included in the registry of eligibles.
(b) The Commission shall fix a reasonable rental for the lease, based upon the average income that the holder was obtaining at the time of his death or disability from the operation of a public vehicle or public vehicle enterprise, motor vehicle engaged in the transportation of purchased goods and passengers as an activity that is incidental to the main service, a motor vehicle engaged in the transportation of students, a motor vehicle engaged in hauling general freight and a motor vehicle wholly engaged in the transportation or hauling of aggregates for industrial or commercial purposes or any person engaged in such activity, as these two terms are defined in §§ 2001—2014 of this title.
(c) The term of the lease shall not exceed five (5) years, after which, the Commission may award the medallion to the lessee, upon the latter’s application, and with the approval of the disabled holder or his heirs or dependents. This new acquirer shall be responsible for the cancellation or balance of any obligation which may weigh upon the medallion.
(d) The heirs or dependents of a holder shall have the same responsibilities, duties and rights on the medallion hereby imposed and granted upon the holder.
History —June 8, 1972, No. 7, p. 353, § 8; June 11, 1976, No. 3, p. 652, § 5; June 13, 1977, No. 61, p. 127, § 3; June 28, 1978, No. 83, p. 266, § 3; July 12, 1979, No. 92, p. 231, § 3; Dec. 19, 2002, No. 282, § 74, eff. 180 days after Dec. 19, 2002.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 73 - Taxicabs and Other Vehicles (§§ 2051 — 2063) › § 2059 - Duties and powers of Commission

In the exercise of the duties and powers hereby imposed and conferred upon the Commission, the latter may hold public hearings, summon witnesses, issue orders, resolutions and decisions and carry out any other function of quasi-judicial nature that may be necessary to implement the provisions of this chapter, pursuant to the proceedings that the Commission is empowered to carry out under §§ 1001 et seq. of this title.
History —June 8, 1972, No. 7, p. 353, § 9.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 73 - Taxicabs and Other Vehicles (§§ 2051 — 2063) › § 2060 - Rules and regulations

The Commission shall adopt the rules and regulations that may be necessary for the implementation of this chapter. Said regulations shall take effect once all the applicable provisions of §§ 2101 et seq. of Title 3, known as the “Uniform Administrative Procedures Act”, have been met.
Likewise, the Commission shall revise and amend its regulations in force to adjust them to the provisions of this chapter.
History —June 8, 1972, No. 7, p. 353, § 10; Dec. 8, 1990, No. 31, p. 1533, § 6, eff. 60 days after Dec. 8, 1990.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 73 - Taxicabs and Other Vehicles (§§ 2051 — 2063) › § 2061 - Writs

Any writ of administrative or judicial revision of the orders and resolutions issued by the Commission in the exercise of the powers conferred by this chapter shall be governed by the provisions of this matter contained in §§ 1001 et seq. of this title.
History —June 8, 1972, No. 7, p. 353, § 11.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 73 - Taxicabs and Other Vehicles (§§ 2051 — 2063) › § 2062 - Penalties

Any violation of the provisions of this chapter shall constitute a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500) or by imprisonment in jail for a term which shall not exceed six (6) months or both penalties in the discretion of the court.
History —June 8, 1972, No. 7, p. 353, § 12.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 75 - Ambulance Service (§§ 2101 — 2111) › § 2101 - Regulation by Public Service Commission

The Ambulance Service in Puerto Rico is a service involving the public interest, and therefore the Public Service Commission should regulate everything concerning the same.
History —July 23, 1974, No. 225, Part 2, p. 168, § 1, eff. 30 days after July 23, 1974.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 75 - Ambulance Service (§§ 2101 — 2111) › § 2103 - Operation of service without liability insurance or license prohibited

No natural or juridical person may establish and operate in Puerto Rico ambulance services as defined by this chapter, without having a liability insurance and an authorization or a license issued by the Public Service Commission, upon previous endorsement by the Secretary of Health, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and of the regulations prescribed hereunder.
History —July 23, 1974, No. 225, Part 2, p. 168, § 3, eff. 30 days after July 23, 1974.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 75 - Ambulance Service (§§ 2101 — 2111) › § 2104 - Application for authorization to operate service

Any person who has established and operates or who intends to establish and operate in the future ambulance services shall file in writing before the Public Service Commission an application for authorization to operate such services. The latter shall notify and send copy of said application to the Department of Health. Applications for authorization shall be made on printed forms that the Public Service Commission shall furnish. The authorization granted under this chapter shall be personal and nontransferable and shall authorize the operation of ambulance services only under the conditions established in the regulations prescribed under this chapter. In addition to said authorization, the Commission shall grant a license for the term of one year which license may be renewed annually upon previous inspection and endorsement by the Department of Health.
The Public Service Commission may deny, suspend or cancel any authorization or license mentioned herein, pursuant to the provisions of the Puerto Rico Public Service Act, §§ 1001 et seq. of this title, and the regulations applicable. The Secretary of Health shall, within a reasonable term not to exceed thirty (30) days reckoning from the receipt of the Commission’s decision, submit to the Commission its recommendations with regard to said license applicants.
History —July 23, 1974, No. 225, Part 2, p. 168, § 4, eff. 30 days after July 23, 1974.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 75 - Ambulance Service (§§ 2101 — 2111) › § 2105 - Regulations

The Public Service Commission, upon previous endorsement from the Secretary of Health, is hereby authorized to promulgate regulations governing the operation of ambulance services, the collection of the pertinent fees for the different types of licenses under its jurisdiction, and the fees to be charged in the different categories of ambulances herein indicated, distinguishing, for the establishment of said fees, the various services and facilities offered. The regulations promulgated by virtue of this provision shall establish the qualifications that must be met by the personnel in charge of rendering ambulance services, the minimum operation requirements of the establishments, as well as the records that must be kept, and everything referring to the procedure for the granting, renewal, suspension, denial and cancellation of licenses. Before approving, amending or repealing any rule or regulation, the Public Service Commission shall cause to be published notice to such effect thrice in two (2) newspapers of general circulation during a four-week period and shall hold public hearings where it shall afford to the persons concerned the opportunity to submit their viewpoints. The rules and regulations approved shall, in order to become effective, meet the requirements established in §§ 2101 et seq. of Title 3.
History —July 23, 1974, No. 225, Part 2, p. 168, § 5, eff. 30 days after July 23, 1974.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 75 - Ambulance Service (§§ 2101 — 2111) › § 2106 - Inspections and investigations

The Public Service Commission and the Secretary of Health are hereby empowered to make the inspections and investigations they may deem necessary to the ambulance services established and operating in Puerto Rico. These inspections shall be made coordinately by the Public Service Commission and the Secretary of Health. The Commission shall be responsible for the inspection of the mechanical parts of the vehicle, and the Department of Health for all the fittings and special equipment specified in Categories I, II and III of § 2102(b) of this title. Before granting any authorization or license for those covered by this chapter, the Secretary of Health shall inspect the ambulance services to be established for the purpose of determining whether they meet the requirements established in this chapter and in the regulations promulgated hereunder, and the Public Service Commission shall not grant any authorization, license, permit or certificate of public convenience and necessity without having first obtained the endorsement of the Secretary of Health.
History —July 23, 1974, No. 225, Part 2, p. 168, § 6, eff. 30 days after July 23, 1974.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 75 - Ambulance Service (§§ 2101 — 2111) › § 2107 - Effectiveness

Ambulance services in operation at the time this act takes effect shall abide by its provisions within the term of one year from its effectiveness; Provided, That the municipalities shall be covered by the provisions of this act from the second year of its effectiveness.
History —July 23, 1974, No. 225, Part 2, p. 168, § 7, eff. 30 days after July 23, 1974.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 75 - Ambulance Service (§§ 2101 — 2111) › § 2108 - Violations, penalty

Any person who establishes, works, administers, or operates an ambulance service without the authorization or license referred to in this chapter, or who poses as an ambulance driver, an ambulance attendant, or an emergency technician without having the proper authorization or license issued by the Secretary of Health or the Public Service Commission, and any person who violates any of the provisions hereof or of the regulations or orders issued by the Public Service Commission and the Secretary of Health hereunder, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon than five hundred dollars ($500).
In addition to the foregoing, any ambulance driver who unlawfully or without their being a medical emergency activates the whistles, sirens of any kind, or bells installed in the ambulance shall be subject to the suspension of his/her authorization to drive ambulances issued by the Commission for a term of thirty (30) calendar days for the first infraction. In the event of a second infraction, the Public Service Commission may, in its discretion, revoke such authorization permanently.
The penalties provided for herein shall be additional to any other applicable punishment under the provisions of §§ 5001 et seq. of Title 9, known as the “Puerto Rico Vehicle and Traffic Act”, and any other existing law or regulation.”
History —July 23, 1974, No. 225, Part 2, p. 168, § 8; Dec. 7, 2010, No. 187, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 75 - Ambulance Service (§§ 2101 — 2111) › § 2109 - Injunction

Without impairment of any other remedy in law that may be established, the Public Service Commission may, in accordance with the legal provisions applicable and through the Secretary of Justice, file a petition for injunction or any other adequate action authorized by law, in behalf of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, against any person, to prevent the establishment or operation of an ambulance service without the corresponding authorization or license issued in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
History —July 23, 1974, No. 225, Part 2, p. 168, § 9, eff. 30 days after July 23, 1974.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 75 - Ambulance Service (§§ 2101 — 2111) › § 2110 - Emblems

Every ambulance on duty in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall bear the emblem and any other requirement that the Public Service Commission may establish by regulation in accordance with the recommendations of the federal traffic safety agency.
History —July 23, 1974, No. 225, Part 2, p. 168, § 10, eff. 30 days after July 23, 1974.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 75 - Ambulance Service (§§ 2101 — 2111) › § 2111 - Emergencies, use of any motor vehicle

Nothing provided herein shall be construed in the sense of prohibiting the use of any motor vehicle available at the place of the accident to carry the injured persons when the emergency so requires.
History —July 23, 1974, No. 225, Part 2, p. 168, § 11, eff. 30 days after July 23, 1974.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 77 - Public Service Easements (§§ 2151 — 2155) › § 2151 - Legal easements

It is hereby established that public service easements for aerial, surface, or underground electric power lines and telephone lines, the supply of all types of cable telecommunications and television services, and aqueduct and storm and sanitary sewage system installations, including equipment, structures and accessories thereof are legal, apparent and continuous easements.
History —July 20, 1979, No. 143, p. 336, § 1; Aug. 26, 2005, No. 101, § 2; Aug. 3, 2006, No. 146, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 77 - Public Service Easements (§§ 2151 — 2155) › § 2152 - Legal easements—Acquisition

The legal easements referred to in § 2151 of this title may be acquired by any legal means of acquiring property, by virtue of a private or public document, or by a 20-year acquisitive prescription, or through eminent domain procedures. These easements shall be ruled by the general provisions on continuous and apparent easements included in the Civil Code of Puerto Rico, as amended.
History —July 20, 1979, No. 143, p. 336, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 77 - Public Service Easements (§§ 2151 — 2155) › § 2153 - Rules and regulations

The public entities which render the public electrical power, telephone and aqueduct and sanitary sewer services, for which the legal easements are established in § 2151 of this title, shall approve and promulgate regulations which shall rule the use and enjoyment of such easements, pursuant to the particular individual needs of each service. The regulations adopted under this chapter shall be consistent with the regulations of the Planning Board which govern the development of Puerto Rico. The Planning Board, upon approval by the Governor, shall adopt the rules and regulations which shall control the use and enjoyment of the easements for the rain water run-off services offered by the municipalities of Puerto Rico. Said rules and regulations shall become effective upon notice to the Governor, as provided in §§ 2101 et seq. of Title 3, ninety (90) days following the approval of this act. These regulations shall be adopted after public hearings and shall be dispatched to the Governor for his approval within a reasonable period of time.
History —July 20, 1979, No. 143, p. 336, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 77 - Public Service Easements (§§ 2151 — 2155) › § 2154 - Registration of legal easements

The legal public service easements established in § 2151 of this title may be recorded in the property registry without having to present the public document in said registry in the case of projects for the construction of buildings, urbanizations or simple segregations, or any other projects for the construction and installation of public service facilities, through which said services pass or their installation is required. In such cases, the property registrar shall proceed to record the legal easement rights which affect the property or lots, in behalf of the public entities or municipalities concerned, with the sole presentation in the registry of a certification by which the constitution of each one of the easements is certified, to be recorded as liens in the books of the property registry, issued by the authorized official or employee of the government instrumentalities or municipalities, as the case may be. Said certifications shall include the plan which graphically shows the course and extent of the constituted easement and where the lots affected and recorded appear, as endorsed or approved by the government agency or municipality acquiring the easement right, and the duly notarized private document by which the owner of the land cedes the right-of-way to the easement in favor of the public entity or municipality in question, in accordance with said plan and the subsequent consent of the acquirer of the right to said transfer. The private document that shall be enclosed with the certification to be submitted at the property registry shall make reference to the plan that graphically describes the easement thus constituted. In the certifications issued by the public or municipal entities concerned, as well as in the property registry, the properties or lots affected shall be specifically listed, including the description and registration data of such properties, the nature and type of the easement, the titleholder, a statement that the transferor and the acquirer of the right-of-way have given their consent to such conveyance and all other data needed for its registration in accordance with §§ 2001 et seq. of Title 30 and 30 R.P.R. §§ 870.1 et seq. The plan attached to the certification shall be filed in the property registry.
The Administration of Municipal Services shall give the necessary technical aid to those municipalities which do not have the technical personnel needed to prepare the certification.
History —July 20, 1979, No. 143, p. 336, § 4; June 3, 1982, No. 31, p. 68; June 27, 1987, No. 64, p. 209.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 77 - Public Service Easements (§§ 2151 — 2155) › § 2155 - Prohibited acts; penalties

From the date on which the regulations ordered by virtue of § 2153 of this title take effect, every person who installs, locates or builds any structure on the legal easements mentioned in § 2151 of this title, without prior written consent of the public or municipal entity that owns the title of the right, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by imprisonment which shall not exceed six (6) months or by a fine which shall not exceed five hundred dollars ($500), or both penalties, [at] the discretion of the court. The court shall order the removal or destruction of the structure thus built, and shall charge the owner therefor.
History —June 20, 1979, No. 143, p. 336, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 79 - Contracting by Government Agencies of Haulage Services (§§ 2201 — 2204) › § 2201 - Definitions

For the purposes of this chapter the meaning of the following terms is as stated below:
(a) Executive agencies.— Includes the bodies and entities of the Executive Branch of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, including public corporations, municipalities and the agencies included within this Branch.
(b) Aggregates.— Includes soil, clay, sludge, debris, muck, sand, asphalt compounds, rough or crushed stone, or any other analogous material.
(c) Concessionaire or public service enterprise.— Means any person, association, company, corporation, cooperative or organization of any other nature which, having obtained a valid authorization from the Public Service Commission hauls aggregates or provides towing services for pay using the public roads of Puerto Rico, for personal, industrial and/or commercial purposes in benefit of the general public or private persons.
(d) Enterprises engaged in the hauling of aggregates in motor vehicles.— Includes any person who, as a public carrier, owns, controls, operates or administers any motor vehicle used for transporting aggregates on any public highway.
(e) Operator.— Any duly authorized person who drives a motor vehicle on the public highways of Puerto Rico to haul loads of aggregates or to provide towing services.
(f) Person.— Includes natural and juridical persons.
(g) Public carrier.— Includes any person who offers to provide or provides its services for hauling loads of aggregates for pay on the public highways of Puerto Rico, and offers to deliver one or more of the materials included in the list of aggregates to the general public, or to provide persons, or who provides towing services for pay.
(h) Hauling of aggregates.— Includes any service related to the hauling of aggregates, including the receiving, delivering, lifting, transferring, diverting, driving and handling thereof.
(i) Motor vehicle.— Includes any mechanically driven or operated vehicle, tractor, truck, hauling, or tow truck which is used to haul aggregates or to provide towing services.
History —Aug. 6, 1996, No. 105, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 79 - Contracting by Government Agencies of Haulage Services (§§ 2201 — 2204) › § 2202 - Objective

To ensure that executive agencies contract only those persons engaged in hauling or transporting aggregates or analogous materials or in providing towing services, who are authorized by the Public Service Commission and who meet the requirements established in this chapter. Thus, the contracted carriers who pay their license and insurance fees, as well as the contractors and the general public, are protected.
History —Aug. 6, 1996, No. 105, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 79 - Contracting by Government Agencies of Haulage Services (§§ 2201 — 2204) › § 2203 - Requirements to be met prior to granting the contract

Every executive agency shall have the obligation to request evidence of compliance with the following requirements from every purveyor or company engaged in providing services for the hauling of aggregates or analogous materials, or towing services, prior to granting a contract. This evidence shall be attached to the contract, and until it is submitted said contract shall not be effective.
The documents shall be the following:
(a) An authorization issued by the Public Service Commission for hauling aggregates or analogous materials, or for providing towing services.
(b) A certificate for the hauling of aggregates or analogous materials or for providing towing services to be effective for five (5) years.
(c) Certificate of inspection prescribed by regulations issued by the Public Service Commission.
(d) State Insurance Fund Policy.
(e) Public liability insurance in effect covering the motor vehicle.
History —Aug. 6, 1996, No. 105, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 79 - Contracting by Government Agencies of Haulage Services (§§ 2201 — 2204) › § 2204 - Penalty

Any contract for hauling aggregates or analogous materials, or to provide towing services which is granted, but is not accompanied by the complementary documents which evidence compliance with the requirements established in this chapter, shall be voidable.
History —Aug. 6, 1996, No. 105, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 81 - Regulation of Charges for Ferry Services (§§ 2301 — 2303) › § 2301 - Ferry service fee

The Department of Transportation and Public Works is hereby authorized to establish, through regulations, a fee to be charged for ferry transportation services offered in the area of the Dos Bocas Lake of the Municipality of Utuado, to users who are not residents of the area.
History —Sept. 13, 1996, No. 223, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 81 - Regulation of Charges for Ferry Services (§§ 2301 — 2303) › § 2302 - Free transportation services

Residents of the area of Dos Bocas Lake, specifically those from Barrios Limón, Sabana Grande, Don Alonso, Caniaco and Río Arriba shall continue to receive transportation services by ferry, free of charge, that shall take them to their homes across the Dos Bocas Lake.
History —Sept. 13, 1996, No. 223, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 81 - Regulation of Charges for Ferry Services (§§ 2301 — 2303) › § 2303 - Special fund

All the money collected on account of said fee shall be used for improvements to the ferry services and to the facilities of the area. To such effects, the Department of Transportation and Public Works shall create a Special Fund.
History —Sept. 13, 1996, No. 223, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 82 - Special Justice in Utility Service Pricing Act for Public Housing Projects (§§ 2311-2317 — 2318) › §§ 2311—2317 - Repealed. Act Apr. 7, 2016, No. 22, § 5.3, effective April 7, 2016

History —Aug. 11, 2009, No. 69, § 1; Repealed. Act.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 82 - Special Justice in Utility Service Pricing Act for Public Housing Projects (§§ 2311-2317 — 2318) › § 2312 - Public policy statement [Repealed]

History —Aug. 11, 2009, No. 69, § 2; Repealed. Act.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 82 - Special Justice in Utility Service Pricing Act for Public Housing Projects (§§ 2311-2317 — 2318) › § 2313 - Fixed rate [Repealed]

History —Aug. 11, 2009, No. 69, § 3; Repealed. Act.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 82 - Special Justice in Utility Service Pricing Act for Public Housing Projects (§§ 2311-2317 — 2318) › § 2314 - Payment plan [Repealed]

History —Aug. 11, 2009, No. 69, § 4; Repealed. Act.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 82 - Special Justice in Utility Service Pricing Act for Public Housing Projects (§§ 2311-2317 — 2318) › § 2315 - Exclusion [Repealed]

History —Aug. 11, 2009, No. 69, § 5; Repealed. Act.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 82 - Special Justice in Utility Service Pricing Act for Public Housing Projects (§§ 2311-2317 — 2318) › § 2316 - Elimination of subsidy [Repealed]

History —Aug. 11, 2009, No. 69, § 6; Repealed. Act.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 82 - Special Justice in Utility Service Pricing Act for Public Housing Projects (§§ 2311-2317 — 2318) › § 2317 - Regulations [Repealed]

History —Aug. 11, 2009, No. 69, § 7; Repealed. Act.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART IV - Freight and Public Service (§§ 2001 — 2318) › Chapter 82 - Special Justice in Utility Service Pricing Act for Public Housing Projects (§§ 2311-2317 — 2318) › § 2318 - Repealed. Act April 7, 2016. No. 22, § 5.3, eff. April 7, 2016

History —Aug. 11, 2009, No. 69, § 8; Repealed. Act.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART V - Regulation of Public Services (§§ 2601 — 2641) › Chapter 91 - Public-Private Partnerships Act (§§ 2601 — 2623) › § 2602 - Public policy

It is hereby stated that the public policy of the Government of Puerto Rico is to favor and promote the establishment of public-private partnerships for the creation of priority projects, and among other things, to further the development and maintenance of infrastructure facilities, to apportion between the Commonwealth and the contractor the risk involved in the development, operation or maintenance of such projects, to improve the services rendered and the functions of the Government, to foster the creation of jobs, and to promote the socio-economic development and the competitiveness of Puerto Rico.
Pursuant to the public policy set forth above, the Board and the Committees hereby created shall consider the following projects as the only existing or new functions, facilities or services to be subject to a partnership contract:
(1) The development, construction or operation of sanitary landfill systems, including methane recovery operations, as well as facilities for the management and disposal of non-hazardous and hazardous solid waste, such as: plants for recycling, composting, and converting waste into energy.
(2) The construction, operation or maintenance of reservoirs and dams, including any infrastructure necessary for their operation to produce, treat, and distribute water and any infrastructure for the production of hydroelectric energy and for sewage and potable water treatment plants.
(3) The construction, operation or maintenance of existing or new plants for the production of energy that use alternate fuels other than oil or that use renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar and oceanic-thermal energy, among others, as well as the transmission of energy of any kind.
(4) The construction, operation or maintenance of transportation systems of any kind, thoroughfare system or related infrastructure, including maritime or air transportation.
(5) The construction, operation or maintenance of educational, health, security, correctional and rehabilitation facilities. When operating educational facilities, a public-private partnership may be established if such contract is executed exclusively with worker-owned cooperative, a special employee-owned corporation, or a nonprofit entity.
(6) The construction, operation or maintenance of affordable housing projects.
(7) The construction, operation or maintenance of sports, recreational, tourist and cultural entertainment facilities.
(8) The construction, operation or maintenance of wired or wireless communication networks for communications infrastructure of any kind.
(9) The design, construction, operation or maintenance of high-technology, informatics and automation systems.
(10) The construction, operation or maintenance of any kind of activity or facility or service as may be identified from time to time as a priority project through legislation.
History —June 8, 2009, No. 29, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART V - Regulation of Public Services (§§ 2601 — 2641) › Chapter 91 - Public-Private Partnerships Act (§§ 2601 — 2623) › § 2603 - Authority to enter into a partnership

All government entities are hereby authorized, pursuant to the public policy set forth in this chapter, to establish partnerships and to execute partnership contracts in connection with any function, service or facility for which they are responsible under the provisions of their organic acts or the applicable special laws, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. All municipal entities, as well as the Legislative Branch and the Judicial Branch, are hereby authorized to partner voluntarily as a government entity into a public-private partnership under the terms and conditions provided for in this chapter. If any municipal entity, the Legislative Branch or the Judicial Branch chooses to voluntarily partner into a partnership under the provisions of this chapter, shall be subject to the provisions thereof. In order to set up the most convenient structure and with the sole purpose of establishing a partnership contract, any government entity that is a public corporation may establish subsidiary or affiliate corporations through a resolution by its Board of Directors or by virtue of the provisions of Act No. 144 of August 10, 1995, known as the “General Corporate Act of 1995”.
History —June 8, 2009, No. 29, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART V - Regulation of Public Services (§§ 2601 — 2641) › Chapter 91 - Public-Private Partnerships Act (§§ 2601 — 2623) › § 2610 - Federal funds and other sources

The partnering government entity or the Authority may accept discretionary funds available in the federal government of the United States of America and its agencies to further the purposes of this chapter, be it through loans, securities or any other kind of financial aid. The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall comply with any requirement, condition or term of any federal funds accepted by the partnering government entity or the Authority. The partnering government entity or the Authority may execute contracts and other agreements with the federal government of the United States of America or any of its agencies as necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. Furthermore, the partnering government entity and the Authority may accept any donation, gift or any other conveyance of land, money, other kinds of real or personal property or any other valuable provided to the partnering government entity or the Authority to carry out the purposes of this chapter. Any partnership contract in connection with a service, function or facility may be financed in whole or in part through funding or other contributions by any person or partnering government entity that is a party to a partnership contract. The partnering government entity may combine federal, local and private funds or other resources to finance a partnership contract under this chapter.
History —June 8, 2009, No. 29, § 11.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART V - Regulation of Public Services (§§ 2601 — 2641) › Chapter 91 - Public-Private Partnerships Act (§§ 2601 — 2623) › § 2612 - Agreement of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

The Government agrees and assures any person party to a partnership contract and the entities that finance such contracts, that the Government shall neither limit nor restrain the rights or powers conferred to the Authority and the partnering government entity or such others held by the partnering government entity under its Organic Act at the time of entering into the partnership contract.
History —June 8, 2009, No. 29, § 13.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART V - Regulation of Public Services (§§ 2601 — 2641) › Chapter 91 - Public-Private Partnerships Act (§§ 2601 — 2623) › § 2613 - Obligation observance assurances by partnering government entities under partnership contracts

The Bank is hereby authorized to design and implement any mechanism, method or instrument as the Bank may deem pertinent and appropriate, including, but not limited to, total or partial sureties, letters of assurance, letters of credit, and others to ensure compliance by the partnering government entity of its contract and financial obligations under the partnering contract. Any mechanism, method or instrument that the Bank may decide to implement in connection with a partnering contract, shall be subject to such terms and conditions that the Board of Directors of the Bank may determine and shall be previously recommended by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and approved by the Governor or the executive official on whom he/she delegates. Amounts disbursed by the Bank under any such mechanism, method or instrument shall be annually repaid with the moneys available, if any, in the fund created for such purpose in § 2616 of this title. Insofar as such funds are not sufficient to repay all amounts paid or advanced by the Bank, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall include in the operating budgets of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico submitted each year by the Governor to the Legislature, beginning in the fiscal year following the date on which the Bank made a disbursement under any mechanism, method or instrument and the moneys available in the fund created by § 2616(d) of this title have been depleted, such amounts as necessary to enable the Bank to recover principal and interest, except for public corporations or municipal entities, which shall respond with their own resources.
History —June 8, 2009, No. 29, § 14.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART V - Regulation of Public Services (§§ 2601 — 2641) › Chapter 91 - Public-Private Partnerships Act (§§ 2601 — 2623) › § 2614 - Lawsuits against the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and partnering government entities

In partnership contracts by and between a contractor and a partnering government entity other than a public corporation or a municipal entity, such contractor is hereby authorized to file suit against the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico before the Court of First Instance of Puerto Rico in San Juan for civil actions, up to the maximum of the amounts or the unearned remainder thereof, as established in the partnership contract and on the grounds of claims that the contractor may have against such partnering government entity under such partnership contract, for which the limitations set forth in § 3077(c) of Title 32, “Claims and Lawsuits against the Commonwealth Act”, shall not apply; Provided, That the aggregate amount claimed may not exceed the extent of the damages set forth in the partnership contract, insofar as such extent complies with the provisions of this chapter. The civil action authorized herein shall comply with the procedures provided in the Claims and Lawsuits against the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Act, and any procedure set forth in the partnership contract. No proponent shall be entitled to claim indemnity for damages against the Authority or a government entity under this chapter; likewise, no claims may be filed as top indemnity, reimbursement, or any payment whatsoever on account of expectations arisen at any of the stages conducive to the award of a partnership.
History —June 8, 2009, No. 29, § 15.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-SEVEN - Public Service (§§ 1 — 2641) › PART V - Regulation of Public Services (§§ 2601 — 2641) › Chapter 91 - Public-Private Partnerships Act (§§ 2601 — 2623) › § 2615 - Indemnity of officials

The members of the Board of Directors of the Authority, the Board of Directors of the partnering government entity (or the Secretary or head of a partnering government entity), the Board of Directors of the Bank, the members of the Partnership Committee, and the employees of the Authority or those assigned to it of the Bank and the partnering government entity with functions relative to the partnership, shall not be held civilly liable for any action or omission in the discharge of their duties, except when conduct which constitutes a crime or gross negligence is present. The provisions of this section shall continue in effect after termination of the partnership contract.
In the event a cause of civil or administrative action is instituted against any of the persons identified in the above paragraph, on the grounds of any action or omission of the same in connection with a partnership authorized under this chapter, said persons may request representation or indemnity by the Authority, and if the latter lacks the funds, by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico pursuant to the provisions of this section for all defense expenses or for any payment of sentence imposed on them, insofar as the action on which a sentence is delivered does not constitute a crime or an instance of gross negligence.
History —June 8, 2009, No. 29, § 16.