2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE SEVENTEEN - Housing (§§ 1 — 1546) › Chapter 5 - Redevelopment Projects (§§ 101 — 119) › § 114 - Urban renewal plan; Register of Renewal and Redevelopment plans

Any urban renewal project coming under the preceding section shall be developed in accordance with an urban renewal plan for the project area. As used in §§ 101—119 of this title, the term “urban renewal plan” is that which is formulated for one or more areas which constitute an urban renewal project, and that (1) shall be in harmony with the general plan for the community and (2) shall be sufficiently complete to indicate: the acquisition of lands; the demolition and removal of structures; the redevelopment; the improvements and rehabilitation which it is proposed to carry out in the urban renewal project area; changes, if any, in zoning and planning; land use; maximum densities; building requirements; Provided, That as to the urban renewal projects developed with federal funds under the Neighborhood Development Programs established by Public Law No. 90-448, (“Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968”, 82 Stat. 518, 519, 520) of the United States Congress, as amended, that the “urban renewal plan” shall be sufficiently complete as far as required by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development of the United States for the granting of loans and grants under said legislation to indicate the acquisition of lands; demolition and removal of structures; the redevelopment; the improvements and rehabilitation proposed to be carried out in the urban renewal project area; changes, if any, in zoning and planning, use of lands, maximum densities, building requirements, and only those other details required by said Secretary in accordance with the requirements adopted to such effect.
An urban renewal plan shall be prepared and approved in harmony with the same procedure as that established in §§ 101—119 of this title for redevelopment plans.
There is hereby created a Register of Renewal and Redevelopment Plans to be under the responsibility of the respective Registrars of Property. The final renewal and redevelopment plans, or any amendment or modification thereto, once approved by the Puerto Rico Planning Board, shall be presented and recorded in said Register, in the Register of Property section in whose territorial demarcation lie the lands where the renewal or redevelopment projects are to be developed referred to in said plans. The Secretary of Justice of Puerto Rico shall issue the proper regulations for said recordings. Copy of these regulations shall be transmitted to the Legislature of Puerto Rico.
The presentation and recording in said Register of a Renewal and Redevelopment Plans shall constitute sufficient notice of its provisions and shall become effective against third parties and may be totally or partially incorporated in any public document or instrument through reference made therein to said plan as it appears in the Register of Renewal and Redevelopment Plans herein created. Any circumstances or restrictions which affect the domain or any other real rights in relation to a farm, the object of a renewal or redevelopment plan, shall also be consigned in a public deed and recorded in the section or sections of the corresponding Register of Property which may be done after the recording of the final renewal or redevelopment plans in the Register herein created, but before any part of the farm is alienated in accordance with the renewal or redevelopment plan in the Register herein created.
History —May 9, 1947, No. 97, p. 226, added as § 17 on June 20, 1955, No. 82, p. 302, § 1; June 17, 1957, No. 66, p. 154, § 1; May 30, 1970, No. 87, p. 233, § 1; June 8, 1973, No. 127, p. 513.