reglab/statecodes huggingface dataset:
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART II - Land Authority (§§ 241 — 512) › Chapter 37 - Proportional Profit Farms (Title IV of Land Law) › Subchapter II - Operation of the Farms (§§ 481 — 491) › § 485 - Net income; income and property taxes

To compute the net income of a proportional profit farm there shall be deducted the rents payable on the farm, the taxes thereon, the wages or salaries received by way of advances by the laborers, expenses for materials and operation, depreciation on major improvements, and cost of repairs and current improvements which may have had the approval of the Authority, interest on any sharecropping contract, workmen’s compensation quotas, premiums on crop insurance approved by the Authority, the percentage of the gross receipts determined by the Authority for supervision and auditing expenses, the percentage of the gross receipts determined by the Authority for expenses of cooperative education, the cost of the use of machinery, animals, and farm implements and equipment, and the premium determined by the Authority as security for any sharecropping contract.
Proportional profit farms shall not be, as such farms or enterprises, subject to the provisions of the Income Tax Act, but such lands as may be devoted to the establishment of proportional profit farms shall be subject to payment of property taxes.
History —Apr. 12, 1941, No. 26, p. 388, § 70; May 11, 1942, No. 197, p. 996, § 20; May 9, 1943, No. 50, p. 120; Mar. 29, 1945, No. 11, p. 32; Sept. 28, 1954, No. 3, p. 36, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART II - Land Authority (§§ 241 — 512) › Chapter 37 - Proportional Profit Farms (Title IV of Land Law) › Subchapter II - Operation of the Farms (§§ 481 — 491) › § 487 - Stores and businesses on farms

Neither the lessee nor any resident in a proportional profit farm may establish any store or any other kind of business on the farm premises. The establishment of stores by private merchants or by bona fide cooperative associations under regulations of the Authority on proportional profit farms is hereby authorized.
History —Apr. 12, 1941, No. 26, p. 388, § 72; May 11, 1942, No. 197, p. 996, § 21, eff. 90 days after May 11, 1942.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART II - Land Authority (§§ 241 — 512) › Chapter 37 - Proportional Profit Farms (Title IV of Land Law) › Subchapter II - Operation of the Farms (§§ 481 — 491) › § 488 - Payments upon death or disability of laborers—Designation of beneficiaries

Every laborer working for the Authority and/or for any proportional profit farm shall fill in and sign before two witnesses and an official or employee of the Authority and/or of the farm a declaration of beneficiaries designating the person or persons who shall in case of his death or disability from any cause, receive the amounts of money owed him by reason of wages or salaries earned as an advance for his work, subsidies, undistributed profits, or payment of any differential by the Authority and/or of the farm, as well as the share accruing to each of said persons of the total amount owed; Provided, That such funds belonging to the said laborers, and the distribution made thereof pursuant to such declaration of beneficiaries, shall not be subject to the inheritance laws in force in Puerto Rico, the laborer being at full liberty to designate any person or persons as his beneficiaries and to assign to each the share he may desire.
Said declaration of beneficiaries shall be filed in the office of the Authority and/or the farm, and in case of the death or disability of the laborer, the Authority and/or the farm shall pay the amounts owed the said deceased or disabled laborer to the persons designated by him as his beneficiaries in his declaration of beneficiaries; Provided, That in case said beneficiaries are minors or incapacitated, the payments belonging to them shall be made directly to the mother or to the relative or private person having them under their custody and care, without need of fulfilling any other requisite, said person being obliged to expend the amount so received exclusively for the benefit of the minors.
History —Apr. 12, 1941, No. 26, p. 388, added as § 72-A on May 7, 1948, No. 108, p. 256, retroactive to Feb. 1, 1948.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART II - Land Authority (§§ 241 — 512) › Chapter 37 - Proportional Profit Farms (Title IV of Land Law) › Subchapter II - Operation of the Farms (§§ 481 — 491) › § 490 - Prescription of actions to recover proportional profits

Any action against the Land Authority and/or its subsidiary corporations and/or a proportional profit farm by workmen or laborers to recover proportional profits, shall prescribe after the lapse of three (3) years. The time for the prescription of such actions shall be counted from the day said profits are declared by the Board and published in two newspapers of general circulation in Puerto Rico.
History —Apr. 12, 1941, No. 26, p. 388, added as § 72-C on Apr. 27, 1949, No. 120, p. 308; June 27, 1958, No. 131, p. 315, § 12.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART II - Land Authority (§§ 241 — 512) › Chapter 37 - Proportional Profit Farms (Title IV of Land Law) › Subchapter II - Operation of the Farms (§§ 481 — 491) › § 491 - Regulations for proportional profit farms; similarity to private farms

The Authority may prescribe for the proportional profit farms such regulations as it may deem necessary, not in conflict with the spirit of §§ 241 et seq. of this title. The Authority is especially instructed, upon making such regulations, to make prevail the purpose that the management of these farms be as similar as possible to the management of private farms insofar as refers to the distribution of profits.
History —Apr. 12, 1941, No. 26, p. 388, § 73; Mar. 29, 1945, No. 7, p. 26.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART II - Land Authority (§§ 241 — 512) › Chapter 39 - Sowing of Rice on Commercial Scale (§§ 501 — 512) › § 501 - Distribution

The sum of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) is hereby appropriated to the Land Authority of Puerto Rico from unencumbered funds in the Commonwealth Treasury to start the sowing of rice on a commercial scale.
History —June 30, 1975, J.R. No. 33, p. 502, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART II - Land Authority (§§ 241 — 512) › Chapter 39 - Sowing of Rice on Commercial Scale (§§ 501 — 512) › § 502 - Authority to incur obligations

The Land Authority is hereby authorized to incur obligations in the additional amount of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) for the same purposes.
History —June 30, 1975, J.R. No. 33, p. 502, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART II - Land Authority (§§ 241 — 512) › Chapter 39 - Sowing of Rice on Commercial Scale (§§ 501 — 512) › § 503 - Transfer of machinery, equipment, farm implements and/or materials to Authority

Once the commercial pilot tests being carried out at Vega Baja by the Agricultural Experiment Station of the Mayagüez University Campus come to an end, the latter shall transfer all the machinery, equipment, farm implements and/or materials acquired with the funds comprised in J.R. No. 60 of June 6, 1973, to the Land Authority and it shall proceed to rescind the prevailing agreement with the latter on the use of such lands.
History —June 30, 1975, J.R. No. 33, p. 502, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART II - Land Authority (§§ 241 — 512) › Chapter 39 - Sowing of Rice on Commercial Scale (§§ 501 — 512) › § 504 - Sowing on suitable lands

The Land Authority is hereby directed to start rice sowing on a commercial scale on those lands suitable for this crop. The Agricultural Experiment Station of the Mayagüez University Campus shall provide the Land Authority with all available information regarding the production of rice on a commercial scale and it shall also supply the technical advice that is needed and required for such purposes.
History —June 30, 1975, J.R. No. 33, p. 502, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART II - Land Authority (§§ 241 — 512) › Chapter 39 - Sowing of Rice on Commercial Scale (§§ 501 — 512) › § 505 - Leasing additional land

The Land Authority may lease lands additional to those administered by it from private firms or persons in order to comply with the provisions of §§ 501—511 of this title and, on selecting the same, it shall take into consideration that it may continue using them to produce rice for an extended period of time.
History —June 30, 1975, J.R. No. 33, p. 502, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART II - Land Authority (§§ 241 — 512) › Chapter 39 - Sowing of Rice on Commercial Scale (§§ 501 — 512) › § 506 - Analysis of agronomical and economic information

In the commercial sowing of rice, the Land Authority shall obtain and analyze to the utmost detail all agronomical and economic information which may be derived therefrom, especially in relation to aspects of costs.
History —June 30, 1975, J.R. No. 33, p. 502, § 6.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART II - Land Authority (§§ 241 — 512) › Chapter 39 - Sowing of Rice on Commercial Scale (§§ 501 — 512) › § 507 - Administrative and operating unit, creation

The Land Authority is hereby authorized to create an administrative and operating unit which shall deal in a quasi autonomous way with all aspects related to the development of this commercial rice enterprise.
History —June 30, 1975, J.R. No. 33, p. 502, § 7.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART II - Land Authority (§§ 241 — 512) › Chapter 39 - Sowing of Rice on Commercial Scale (§§ 501 — 512) › § 508 - Business with farmers or private firms

The Land Authority may do business with farmers and/or private firms interested in any phase of the commercial production of the grain.
History —June 30, 1975, J.R. No. 33, p. 502, § 8.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART II - Land Authority (§§ 241 — 512) › Chapter 39 - Sowing of Rice on Commercial Scale (§§ 501 — 512) › § 509 - Investigation of agronomical techniques; inventory of lands

The Agricultural Experiment Station, Mayagüez University Campus, is hereby directed to continue carrying on research regarding agronomical techniques on the cultivation of rice in small parcels and to take an inventory of suitable lands for this crop in Puerto Rico. It shall place at the disposal of the Land Authority the results of the research and the inventory.
History —June 30, 1975, J.R. No. 33, p. 502, § 9.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART II - Land Authority (§§ 241 — 512) › Chapter 39 - Sowing of Rice on Commercial Scale (§§ 501 — 512) › § 510 - Activities and progress reports

Both the Land Authority and the Agricultural Experiment Station shall render semiannual reports on the activities carried out in compliance with the provisions of §§ 501—511 of this title, to the Legislature, the Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture and to the Secretary of Agriculture. They shall also render reports on the progress of the project at the end of each fiscal year and in successive years in which activities in accordance with this legislative bill are carried out.
History —June 30, 1975, J.R. No. 33, p. 502, § 10.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART II - Land Authority (§§ 241 — 512) › Chapter 39 - Sowing of Rice on Commercial Scale (§§ 501 — 512) › § 511 - Reversion of proceeds from sale to Authority

The proceeds from the sale of rice shall revert to the Land Authority for subsequent sowing of the grain, in accordance with the public policy established herein.
History —June 30, 1975, J.R. No. 33, p. 502, § 11.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 51 - Creation and General Powers (§§ 521 — 530) › § 521 - Housing Development and Improvements Administration—Creation

An independent body in regard to its administration and use of funds is hereby created as a part of the Housing Department, to be known as the Housing Development and Improvements Administration, whose Executive Director shall be empowered to appoint the personnel needed to implement §§ 241 et seq. of this title, and which shall carry out and develop the programs for the relocation of tenant farmhands and the construction of housing for rural communities under Title V of this act. The Administration shall constitute an individual administrator for the purposes of Act No. 5 of October 14, 1975.
History —Apr. 12, 1941, No. 26, p. 388, added as § 73A on May 15, 1948, No. 216, p. 652; July 13, 1978, No. 47, p. 514, § 1; Aug. 9, 1991, No. 58, § 5; Nov. 17, 1993, No. 92, § 1; Apr. 28, 1996, No. 27, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 51 - Creation and General Powers (§§ 521 — 530) › § 522 - Housing Development and Improvements Administration—Transfer to Department of Housing

(a) The Housing Development and Improvements Administration is transferred to the Department of Housing to function under the direction and supervision of the Secretary of Housing and under the name of Housing Development and Improvements Administration of the Department of Housing.
(b) The Secretary of Housing shall have the power to appoint the Executive Director of the Housing Development and Improvements Administration for a term of four (4) years, unless sooner removed by the Secretary, and who shall receive the compensation he is at present receiving.
History —1950 Reorg. Plan No. 1, § III.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 51 - Creation and General Powers (§§ 521 — 530) › § 522a - Housing Development and Improvements Administration—Appointment of Executive Director; compensation

The Executive Director of the Housing Development and Improvements Administration shall hold office at the pleasure of the Secretary of Housing and his compensation shall be fixed by the Secretary of Housing in accord with the Director of the Bureau of the Budget.
History —June 13, 1958, No. 34, p. 46.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 51 - Creation and General Powers (§§ 521 — 530) › § 523 - Transfer of farms from Land Authority to Department of Agriculture

Title in fee simple to all the farms of the Land Authority of Puerto Rico devoted to the purposes hereinbelow listed is hereby transferred to the Department of Agriculture of Puerto Rico, for use by the Social Programs Administration of said department:
(a) Farms whereon are established rural communities under Title V of the Land Law of Puerto Rico (Act No. 26 of April 12, 1941, as amended).
(b) Farms distributed among small farmers under the provisions of Title VI of the Land Law of Puerto Rico (Act No. 26 of April 12, 1941, as amended).
(c) Farms and homestead farms set aside for the Homestead Program under Act No. 53 of July 11, 1921, as amended, and transferred to the Land Authority of Puerto Rico under Act No. 407 of 1947.
(d) Any other farms acquired by the Land Authority of Puerto Rico with funds of the Social Programs Administration.
History —Dec. 12, 1950, No. 2, p. 332, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 51 - Creation and General Powers (§§ 521 — 530) › § 524 - Secretary of Housing to appear in acts, contracts, and judicial proceedings

The Secretary of Housing of Puerto Rico is hereby empowered and authorized to appear in the name and in behalf of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in the acts and contracts necessary to carry out the ends and purposes of the Housing Development and Improvements Administration of Puerto Rico.
The said Secretary is hereby likewise empowered to intervene in a like capacity, either as plaintiff or defendant, in all judicial proceedings necessary for the operation of said administration.
History —Dec. 12, 1950, No. 2, p. 332, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 51 - Creation and General Powers (§§ 521 — 530) › § 525 - Acquisition and use of property

The Secretary of Housing of Puerto Rico is hereby authorized to acquire by purchase, condemnation, assignment, gift, exchange, or in other lawful manner, in the name and on behalf of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and for the purpose of carrying out and continuing the development of any of the programs entrusted to the Housing Development and Improvements Administration, the lands and any other necessary property and also to use said lands and property so acquired to carry out and enforce the ends and purposes for which the Housing Development and Improvements Administration was created.
History —Dec. 12, 1950, No. 2, p. 332, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 51 - Creation and General Powers (§§ 521 — 530) › § 526 - Conveyance of property

The Secretary of Housing of Puerto Rico is hereby empowered and authorized to assign, donate, sell, lease, exchange or otherwise alienate in the name and in behalf of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the lands and other property devoted to the ends and purposes of the Housing Development and Improvements Administration or any of the programs thereof, when such action may be necessary to carry out and enforce the functions of the said Housing Development and Improvements Administration; Provided, That the listing of powers, duties and faculties made in this act shall in no wise be understood as a limitation thereof. The Secretary of Housing of Puerto Rico is also hereby empowered and authorized to lease, when not in use, the equipment, machinery and facilities that the Housing Development and Improvements Administration may have available to the usufructuaries of parcels under Titles V and VI of the Land Law of Puerto Rico to other farmers and to the municipalities, to carry out and enforce the ends and purposes for which said Administration was created. The farmers to whom reference is made should be those who have no equipment, machinery and/or similar facilities or who have them in inoperable condition or those farmers who are affected by an emergency situation which forces them to lease equipment, machinery and/or additional facilities. The Secretary of Housing shall impose as an essential condition for the lease that the equipment, machinery and/or facilities so leased, may not be subleased and such other conditions that may assure the due use of same. When the lease of the equipment, machinery or facilities is made in behalf of the usufructuaries of parcels under Titles V and VI of the Land Law, to be used in the construction of houses with materials supplied by said Administration, the corresponding rentals shall be added to the sale price of such construction materials and shall be paid under the same conditions established for the payment of same.
History —Dec. 12, 1950, No. 2, p. 332, § 4; June 19, 1965, No. 56, p. 106.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 51 - Creation and General Powers (§§ 521 — 530) › § 526a - Lots set aside for cooperative associations in rural communities

The Housing Development and Improvements Administration of Puerto Rico is hereby authorized to set aside in the rural communities established under Title V, and in small individual farm projects established under Title VI of the Land Law, lots to be sold to legally constituted cooperative associations, of the size to be determined by the Secretary of Housing provided the lot so sold is to be used by cooperative associations established to serve mainly the communities or the farms created under the above-mentioned titles; Provided, That in no case shall lots be ceded in preferent or privileged sites of rural communities and individual farm projects; Provided, further, That alienations authorized by this section and § 526b of this title shall carry with them the essential condition, as a part of the sale contract, that the cooperative associations acquiring such lots shall, in case of sale of the said lots, be under obligation to resell the same back to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, represented by the Secretary of Housing of Puerto Rico or the official to whom he may delegate, to carry out the ends and purposes of the Housing Development and Improvements Administration, should said administration be interested in acquiring them therefor.
History —June 23, 1958, No. 87, p. 196, § 1; June 9, 1959, No. 21, p. 78, § 1; June 12, 1961, No. 34, p. 67.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 51 - Creation and General Powers (§§ 521 — 530) › § 526b - Lots set aside for cooperative associations in rural communities—Regulations

The alienation referred to in § 526a of this title shall be according to such regulation as may be prescribed by the Housing Development and Improvements Administration of Puerto Rico.
History —June 23, 1958, No. 87, p. 196, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 51 - Creation and General Powers (§§ 521 — 530) › § 527 - Delegation of powers

The Secretary of Housing of Puerto Rico is hereby authorized and empowered to delegate to the Director of the Housing Development and Improvements Administration the powers, rights, duties, and faculties in him vested by §§ 523—527 of this title.
History —Dec. 12, 1950, No. 2, p. 332, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 51 - Creation and General Powers (§§ 521 — 530) › § 527a - Construction materials, communal buildings, and other public services

The Housing Development and Improvements Administration may provide the usufructuaries of parcels in the rural communities established under Title V hereof of the individual farms established under Title VI, of the lots in minimum-facility developments, and in other places of the rural zone, with construction materials at cost or at less than cost and under such conditions of payment as the Administration may stipulate, as well as with the necessary technical supervision in order that the said usufructuaries may construct their homes with the said materials. The Administration may invest money in the erection of communal buildings in Title V communities, Title VI farms, minimum-facility developments, and in other places of the rural zone, and may likewise invest money to provide, and cooperate with other government agencies toward providing, the said communities, the individual subsistence farms established under Title VI, minimum-facility developments, or in other places of the rural zone, with such other public services as the Administration may deem advisable. Any funds which the Administration may use for carrying out the provisions of this section with relation to rural communities and Title VI farms shall be taken from the trust fund known as “Fund of Titles V and VI, Trust Fund”, created under § 323 of this title. Likewise, there is created a trust fund known as “Fund of Low-Cost Dwellings” to be devoted to the development of the Low-Cost Dwelling Program into which shall be covered the following funds:
(a) The balance of the appropriations already made under Act 395 of May 10, 1951, Act 398 of May 12, 1952, J.R. 32 of May 27, 1953, J.R. 93 of June 25, 1954, J.R. 97 of June 13, 1955, J.R. 17 of March 21, 1956 and J.R. 34 of July 1, 1957; and such other funds as the Legislature may hereafter appropriate to carry out the purposes of the Low-Cost Dwelling Program.
(b) The payments heretofore and hereafter made by the persons covered by the Low-Cost Dwelling Program for the furnishing of materials for the construction of their dwellings.
The Executive Director may dispose of up to seven percent (7%) of the collections of the Fund of Low-Cost Dwellings to devote same to the administration of the proper fund and may establish the collection system as he may deem most adequate, including the collection on the basis of a percentage through contract.
History —Apr. 12, 1941, No. 26, p. 388, added as § 73A-1 on June 30, 1955, No. 106, p. 622, § 8; June 19, 1957, No. 75, p. 170; June 23, 1958, No. 78, p. 174; June 26, 1968, No. 135, p. 322.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 51 - Creation and General Powers (§§ 521 — 530) › § 529 - Development of cooperative activities, crops, and small community industries

The Executive Director of the Housing Development and Improvements Administration may, with the approval of the Board of Directors of the Land Authority, use such sums of money as may be necessary for carrying out within his administration the development of cooperative activities, the development and promotion of crops, and the promotion of small community industries. The said sums of money shall be taken from the fund of “Title V and VI, Trust Fund,” established under § 323 of this title.
History —Apr. 12, 1941, No. 26, p. 388, added as § 80(a) on Sept. 27, 1949, No. 36, p. 72, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 51 - Creation and General Powers (§§ 521 — 530) › § 530 - Development of cooperative activities, crops, and small community industries by Housing Development and Improvements Administration—Disposition of receipts

The moneys received by the Housing Development and Improvements Administration from the development of cooperative activities, the development and promotion of crops, and promotion of small community industries, shall be covered into the fund of Title V and VI, Trust Fund.
History —Apr. 12, 1941, No. 26, p. 388, added as § 80(b) on Sept. 27, 1949, No. 36, p. 72, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 53 - Creation of Rural Communities for Families of Agregados (Title V of Land Law) › § 551 - Lands for homes for agregados

In order to promote the welfare and economic freedom of, and do social justice to, agregados, as they are defined in § 555 of this title, and in accordance with the Statement of Motives hereof, it is hereby declared that the purpose of this Title is that every agregado shall at least be entitled to hold the fourth part of a cuerda of land on which he may permanently erect his home.
The Authority shall investigate the most fitting places located alongside or near the Commonwealth and municipal roads already constructed for the traffic of rolling vehicles, or near population centers, second rural units and/or medical centers. The purpose of such investigation shall be to determine the places that can be divided into parcels of not less than one-fourth of a cuerda nor more than three cuerdas of land, to be distributed among those families of agregados, as said term is defined in this act, who may wish to own such parcels on which to erect their homes. Said lands shall be acquired by the Authority through condemnation proceedings in accordance with § 264 of this title, or by direct negotiations with the owners thereof.
History —Apr. 12, 1941, No. 26, p. 388, § 74; Nov. 20, 1942, No. 9, p. 30; May 14, 1943, No. 158, p. 516; June 9, 1948, No. 44, p. 126, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 53 - Creation of Rural Communities for Families of Agregados (Title V of Land Law) › § 552 - Lots for various purposes

The Housing Development and Improvements Administration shall fix traffic or rights-of-way and set aside lots to be leased to merchants and to industrial establishments where beneficiaries of this Title of the act may work, or to be granted to the Commonwealth or federal government or to the municipal governments, for medical dispensaries, police stations, schools, playgrounds, or for any other purpose that the Housing Development and Improvements Administration may deem convenient or of social benefit to the occupants of the parcels mentioned in the preceding section. The Housing Development and Improvements Administration may set aside lots of not more than one-fourth of a cuerda of land in the rural communities established under this Title to be leased according to such terms and conditions as may be determined for the purpose, to public school teachers, churches, religious ministers, consumer and production cooperatives, public employees and to any other educational, social, religious, civic or charitable nonprofit organizations, provided it belongs to and/or benefits the inhabitants of the community; Provided, That in the case of those public employees whose monthly income does not exceed what is established by administrative provision by the Executive Director, and that meet the requirements as usufructuaries, as established in this act, may be given the lot in usufruct. The Housing Development and Improvements Administration may not lease more than one lot to each of such educational, social, religious, civic, or charitable organizations; Provided, That in no case shall lots be ceded or leased in differentiated or privileged places in such rural communities; Provided, further, That in the lease contracts of such lots it shall be specifically stipulated that the same may not be subleased except upon the prior approval of the Director of the Housing Development and Improvements Administration, and provided said subleases are for the same purposes as the original lease.
The Housing Development and Improvements Administration may set aside a lot of not more than one-fourth of a cuerda of land in the rural communities established under this Title to be leased on such terms and conditions it may determine to such effect for facilities for the common use of labor organizations.
History —Apr. 12, 1941, No. 26, p. 388, § 75; May 11, 1942, No. 197, p. 996, § 22; June 20, 1955, No. 85, p. 342; June 15, 1965, No. 30, p. 56; July 1, 1975, No. 142, p. 426, § 1; May 27, 1980, No. 58, p. 151, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 53 - Creation of Rural Communities for Families of Agregados (Title V of Land Law) › § 553b - Usufruct contract—Violation

Whenever there is a violation of the usufruct contract, the Housing Development and Improvements Administration shall notify the usufructuary by registered mail or by personal delivery, of its intention to rescind said contract. The notice shall state the grounds of the violation or violations of the usufruct contract, and shall inform the usufructuary of his right to request a hearing, within a period of thirty (30) days following receipt of the notice, to show cause as to why the usufruct should not be cancelled.
When a usufructuary makes the request before the Secretary of Housing, the latter shall appoint an examiner to hold the hearing at which the usufructuary may appear personally, or through counsel. The administrative hearing shall be governed by the procedure which the Secretary of Housing may adopt to such ends by regulations, with the protection of due process of law. The usufructuary may request the reconsideration of the Secretary’s determination, within ten (10) days following notice of his determination.
A petition for review may be filed with the Court of First Instance of Puerto Rico within ten (10) days after having received the final notice of the results of the hearing.
History —Apr. 12, 1941, No. 26, p. 388, added as § 76-B on June 24, 1977, No. 105, p. 265, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 53 - Creation of Rural Communities for Families of Agregados (Title V of Land Law) › § 553c - Usufruct contract—Cancellation for abandonment of structures

The Housing Development and Improvements Administration shall have the authority to cancel the usufruct contract of those parcels on which the usufructuary has built structures, when said parcel, as well as said structures or improvements, has been in a state of abandonment for one year or more, after officers of the agency have been unsuccessful in finding the usufructuary to show cause as to why the usufruct contract should not be cancelled. The Executive Director of the Housing Development and Improvements Administration, in such cases, shall authorize the publication of edicts, under his signature, summoning the absent usufructuaries; Provided, That within a term of fifteen (15) days, said edicts shall be published once a week in a newspaper of general circulation in Puerto Rico, and it shall simultaneously authorize the posting of edicts within the same period of time, in two (2) public places nearby or close to where the parcel is located.
Copy of the published edict shall be sent by registered mail to the usufructuary’s last known address. After fifteen (15) days have elapsed from the publication of the last edict, the usufructuary must appear, personally or through counsel, before the Executive Director of the Housing Development and Improvements Administration or the person whom he delegates, to show cause as to why his usufruct contract should not be cancelled. The determination of the Executive Director is appealable to the Secretary of Housing; the final determination of the Secretary is reviewable by the Court of First Instance of Puerto Rico within ten (10) days after notice of the decision is received. The Secretary of Housing shall adopt, by regulation, a speedy procedure for the holding of the administrative hearing, with the guarantees of due process of law. If the usufructuary fails to appear, the improvements shall be appraised and they shall be sold to the person who is eligible for the concession of the usufruct; Provided, That the amount of money obtained through the sale of the improvements shall be deposited in a reserve fund created for such purposes, to be delivered to the owner of the structure, if the latter requests it, within a term of five (5) years. In the event that no claim is made within the above prescribed period, said money shall be covered into the funds of Title V.
History —Apr. 12, 1941, No. 26, p. 388, added as § 76-C on June 24, 1977, No. 105, p. 265, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 53 - Creation of Rural Communities for Families of Agregados (Title V of Land Law) › § 554 - Sanitary regulations; conditions for acquisition of land; use for other purposes

The Authority shall, with the approval of the Secretary of Health, adopt and promulgate proper and simple sanitary regulations not incompatible with the purposes or the spirit of this act, so as to facilitate the compliance with such purposes. No other condition or requisite shall be demanded for the acquisition of the parcels mentioned in the foregoing sections than to be an agregado and to make a petition or an application therefor, according to such regulations as are approved by the Authority.
Land acquired under this Title and for the purposes hereof, from and after the date this act takes effect, shall not be devoted to the purposes of other Titles of this act.
History —Apr. 12, 1941, No. 26, p. 388, § 77; May 11, 1942, No. 197, p. 996, § 24.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 53 - Creation of Rural Communities for Families of Agregados (Title V of Land Law) › § 555 - Agregado defined; limited to one parcel; conveyance or encumbrance of parcel

For the purposes of this act, the term agregado shall be understood to mean any family head and those single persons who qualify, residing in the rural zone, whose home is established in a house and on land belonging to another person or in his own house erected on land belonging to another person, and whose only means of livelihood is his labor for a wage earned from agricultural tasks and who does not possess land as owner. Not more than a parcel shall be granted to any family head and those single persons who qualify therefor, nor shall such family head or single persons convey said parcel without the consent of the Housing Development and Improvements Administration, under such regulations as the Housing Development and Improvements Administration may approve.
History —Apr. 12, 1941, No. 26, p. 388, § 78; May 13, 1947, No. 357, p. 686; June 4, 1960, No. 35, p. 59, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 53 - Creation of Rural Communities for Families of Agregados (Title V of Land Law) › § 556 - Extension of benefits

The Housing Development and Improvements Administration may discretionally extend the benefits of this Title to persons who while meeting all other requisites, reside in the urban zones provided they earn their wages in agricultural tasks, and to persons who, while residing in the rural zones, do not earn wages in agricultural tasks; Provided, That as may be determined by regulations, the benefits of this Title may be extended to those persons who having moved from the rural to the urban zone wish to return to the rural zone, and to those residents of the urban zone whose houses were acquired by the Government through purchase or condemnation to carry out any project of public interest, utility or purpose, and to the veterans of the United States Armed Forces, regardless of their annual income, provided they do not own properties and their income, in the judgment of the Housing Development and Improvements Administration, does not enable them to solve their housing problem through the private industry.
History —Apr. 12, 1941, No. 26, p. 388, § 79; Mar. 27, 1944, No. 10, p. 20; May 13, 1947, No. 357, p. 686; June 4, 1960, No. 35, p. 59, § 3; July 1, 1975, No. 142, p. 426, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 53 - Creation of Rural Communities for Families of Agregados (Title V of Land Law) › § 557 - Segregated parcels freed from taxes

The parcels of land already acquired, or that may hereafter be acquired, by the Land Authority of Puerto Rico, through segregation from larger properties, under purchase agreements, in order to carry out Title V of the Land Law of Puerto Rico, approved April 12, 1941, subsequently amended, are hereby freed from all taxes in force thereon, including the taxes for attachments made by the Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico for the collection of income taxes.
History —May 14, 1943, No. 163, p. 570, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 53 - Creation of Rural Communities for Families of Agregados (Title V of Land Law) › § 558 - Segregated parcels freed from taxes—Taxes to encumber main properties

The amount of the taxes corresponding to the parcels freed in accordance with § 557 of this title shall continue to encumber, and the Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico shall make them effective on, the rest of the main properties after the segregations have been made in favor of the Land Authority of Puerto Rico.
History —May 14, 1943, No. 163, p. 570, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 53 - Creation of Rural Communities for Families of Agregados (Title V of Land Law) › § 559 - Segregated parcels freed from taxes—Notice to Secretary of the Treasury

The Executive Director of the Land Authority of Puerto Rico, or his legally authorized representative, shall notify the Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico of the acquisition of said parcels and of the purpose to which the same are to be devoted, so that the Secretary of the Treasury may have knowledge of the liberation provided for by §§ 557—561 of this title.
History —May 14, 1943, No. 163, p. 570, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 53 - Creation of Rural Communities for Families of Agregados (Title V of Land Law) › § 560 - Segregated parcels freed from taxes—Workmen’s compensation quotas

When the parcels mentioned in § 557 of this title are subject to attachment for the collection of quotas owed by the Industrial Commission, or for workmen’s compensation, the Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico is hereby empowered to free said parcels from the effects of the attachment levied, when, in his judgment and discretion, the rest of the property, or other property in possession of the debtor, is sufficient to cover the amount of the attachment.
History —May 14, 1943, No. 163, p. 570, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 53 - Creation of Rural Communities for Families of Agregados (Title V of Land Law) › § 561 - Segregated parcels freed from taxes—Certificates showing liberations

The Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico is hereby authorized to issue, in harmony with the provision of § 560 of this title, the certificates showing the liberations granted by him.
History —May 14, 1943, No. 163, p. 570, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 55 - Family-Type Farm Program (Title VI of Land Law) › § 581 - Creation

A program is hereby created to promote and encourage the intensive use of the land and the development of activities that will lead to the enjoyment of rural life through the creation of farms that will allow the persons that farm them as their only income or as supplementary income, to achieve an adequate standard of living, and through the development and establishment of facilities, activities and public and private services that are necessary for the well being of the rural inhabitants. The persons eligible to avail themselves of said program may be single or married, need not necessarily be heads of a family and shall be selected according to the guidelines established by the Secretary of Agriculture, taking into consideration their knowledge, experience and capabilities and such other conditions and qualifications that may be deemed necessary for the intensive agricultural exploitation of a farm, or for the development of other activities that will lead to rural welfare; Provided, That those chosen for the family-type farms shall be persons who do not own any land, or do not own sufficient land to engage in agriculture profitably, according to their working ability.
History —Dec. 7, 1966, No. 5, p. 24, § 1; May 30, 1973, No. 63, p. 282, § 18; Feb. 5, 1979, No. 9, p. 20; May 25, 1985, No. 13, p. 40.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 55 - Family-Type Farm Program (Title VI of Land Law) › § 585 - Division of lands

The division of the lands acquired through assignment, conveyance, donation, purchase, or otherwise, in order to carry out the provisions of the [sic] Title VI, shall be made by the Secretary of Agriculture of Puerto Rico according to the topography of the land, the fertility of the soil, local conditions, and desirable norms to provide for the usufructuary’s family a reasonable standard of living. The size and value of each farm shall be determined on the basis of the needs existing in the zone wherein the program is to be put into practice. The lands now devoted to the Social Programs Administration of the Department of Agriculture for the purposes of Title VI shall be placed under the management of the Secretary of Agriculture with their present areas unchanged; it being understood that such area may be increased upon the consent of the usufructuary concerned, in keeping with the norms and principles herein provided for.
History —Dec. 7, 1966, No. 5, p. 24, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 55 - Family-Type Farm Program (Title VI of Land Law) › § 586 - Tax exemption

All the farms granted in usufruct under Title VI shall be exempt from the payment of property taxes, both while they remain under the control of the Secretary of Agriculture and when they are in the hands of the usufructuaries.
History —Dec. 7, 1966, No. 5, p. 24, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-EIGHT - Public Lands (§§ 1 — 737) › PART III - Housing Development And Improvements Administration (§§ 521 — 737) › Chapter 55 - Family-Type Farm Program (Title VI of Land Law) › § 587 - Resolution of ownership

Failure to pay any amount indebted for any legal reason whatsoever under which a farm is owned, except by sale or usufruct, or the noncompliance of any of the conditions or restrictions stated in [this] act or in the contract or the proper regulations, shall cause the resolutions and termination of the right under which the farm is owned and in such case, unless otherwise agreed in the corresponding contract, the holder of any legal right, except by purchase or usufruct, shall leave the farm at the disposal of the Secretary of Agriculture and shall only have the right to receive the value of the buildings, improvements, plantations introduced in the farm, including the value of crops to be determined through the assessment at the time the resolution and the termination of his right, from which amount there shall be deducted any debt it may have with the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Notwithstanding, the said owner may take with him his personal properties and farm implements.
History —Dec. 7, 1966, No. 5, p. 24, § 1.