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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter I - Organic Act (§§ 62 — 63j) › § 63e - Succession

(a) The Puerto Rico Planning Board shall be the successor for all purposes of the Puerto Rico Planning Board created by Act No. 213 of May 12, 1942, as amended, pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter, and its members shall hold office until the terms for which they were appointed expire.
(b) There shall be transferred to the Planning Board, to be used for the ends and purposes of this subchapter, all the property or any interest therein; records, files and documents; funds already appropriated or to be made available in the future, including surpluses, assets and credits of any kind; obligations and contracts of any type; and licenses, permits and other authorizations; except those transferred to the Permit Management Office.
(c) The personnel transferred to the Board shall retain all the rights acquired at the time this act becomes effective, as well as the rights, privileges, obligations and status with respect to any existing pension, retirement or savings and loan fund system or systems with which they may be affiliated.
(d) All the orders, regulations, maps, plots, programs, plans, documents, norms, resolutions and rules adopted by the Planning Board created by Act No. 213 of May 12, 1942, which are compatible with this subchapter shall remain in force until they are amended or repealed.
(e) The Chairman of the Board is authorized to transfer to the Bureau of the Budget the records, property, personnel and budgetary appropriations necessary to formulate the Annual Capital Improvements Program which is hereby transferred.
History —June 24, 1975, No. 75, p. 183, § 33, eff. July 1, 1975.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter I - Organic Act (§§ 62 — 63j) › § 63f - Transfer of functions

The transfer of functions from the Planning Board to the Permit Management Office shall be carried out pursuant to the provisions of §§ 71—72i of this title.
History —June 24, 1975, No. 75, p. 183, § 34, eff. July 1, 1975.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter I - Organic Act (§§ 62 — 63j) › § 63g - Delegation of functions

Pursuant to the provisions of § 62j(19) of this title the Board may delegate to the Permit Management Office all such functions as it may determine on the adoption of amendments to the zoning maps in areas previously zoned, as well as the consideration and resolution of location and public projects consultations. The Board shall render annual reports to the Governor and to the Legislature on any delegations made under § 62j(19) of this title. The Board may establish criteria or norms which may permit it to revise periodically such norms and delegations. After such delegations have been made, the provisions of this subchapter relating to the matters delegated shall be applicable to the Permit Management Office. This section shall not limit any other delegations the Board may make pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to delegations that the Board may make to the local and regional planning commissions, as well as to other bodies, in regard to the adoption of amendments to the zoning maps of previously zoned areas, among others, which shall be governed by the provisions of § 62w of this title.
History —June 24, 1975, No. 75, p. 183, § 35; June 21, 1977, No. 83, p. 186, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter I - Organic Act (§§ 62 — 63j) › § 63h - Pending cases, transition

(a) Pending indictments for violations of the laws, or parts thereof, repealed or affected by this subchapter, committed prior to the effective date of this act, shall continue to be prosecuted under the act in force at the time the violation was committed.
(b) Any civil action filed in relation with the structuring of any of the laws, or parts thereof, repealed or affected by this subchapter and in prosecution prior to the effectiveness of this act, shall not be affected by any of the repeals or modifications produced by this subchapter.
(c) All administrative proceedings pending under the laws repealed or affected by this subchapter, on the effective date hereof, shall continue to be prosecuted until their final determination pursuant to the laws and regulations in force prior to the effective date of this act.
History —June 24, 1975, No. 75, p. 183, § 36, eff. July 1, 1975.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter I - Organic Act (§§ 62 — 63j) › § 63i - Orders, transition

All orders, determinations, master plans, land-use and transportation plans, main thoroughfare plans, official maps, regulations, rules, permits, licenses, authorizations, contracts and obligations which, under authority of law, have been issued, effected, executed, granted or enforced to implement the aforesaid functions transferred to the Board, or to any other government body, and which may be in force at the time the transfer becomes effective, shall remain in force insofar as they are compatible with this subchapter or any other act governing such transfer, as each case may be, until they are amended, substituted, modified or set aside, under authority of law and by competent authority.
History —June 24, 1975, No. 75, p. 183, § 37, eff. July 1, 1975.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter I - Organic Act (§§ 62 — 63j) › § 63j - Appropriation

The appropriation of funds for operating expenses of the Board shall be included in the annual budget submitted to the Legislature. If for any reason expense funds are not included in said annual budget, the appropriation for said year shall be the same as that of the immediately preceding year.
History —June 24, 1975, No. 75, p. 183, § 39, eff. July 1, 1975.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter II - Traffic Control (§§ 64 — 64h) › § 64a - Requirements

For the purposes of being able to petition and obtain the permit referred to in § 64 of this title, the following requirements must be complied with:
(a) That the urbanizations, streets or communities have a residents council, board or association, duly organized and registered with the Department of State as a non-profit institution.
(b) That in the urbanization, street or community there is no building or facility owned by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or the municipalities for the use and enjoyment of the general public, except those destined for schools, recreational parks or community centers.
(c) That the request for authorization to control the access or accesses to the urbanization, street or community be adopted by at least three fourths (¾) of the proprietors of the dwellings established therein. Participation of said proprietors shall be limited to one owner per dwelling and shall be stated, in writing, under the signature of each. An authorization to apply for the permit to control a point or points of access to the urbanization, street or community given voluntarily by an owner of legal age and in representation of a dwelling, shall bind the owner to comply with the provisions of § 64d-3 of this title, and shall be in full force and effect as long as no written document which clearly revokes the authorization granted on a prior date, is issued. A revocation of authority to petition for a permit to control the access or accesses to the urbanization, street or community shall be valid only if it is presented at any time until the first public hearing is held. The provisions in § 64d-3 of this title shall apply after that date. Those persons who favor the implementation of the system shall do so expressly and, in writing, at the time that steps are being taken to obtain the necessary authorizations from the owners to request the access control permits.
(d) That the community commits itself and guarantees to assume the installation, operation and maintenance expenses of the facilities needed to control access to the urbanization or community.
History —May 20, 1987, No. 21, p. 63, § 2; Aug. 10, 1988, No. 156, p. 669, § 3; July 16, 1992, No. 22, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter II - Traffic Control (§§ 64 — 64h) › § 64b-1 - Petition prior to subdivision or development

Any urbanizer, land developer, builder of an urbanization, parceling or simple subdivision, may establish the controlled access thereon, prior to selling, granting a purchase option, or otherwise making a commitment to sell a dwelling, lot, parcel, or tract of land which he/she intends to develop or parcel, provided he/she complies with the provisions of §§ 64—64h of this title and the applicable ordinances and regulations which the municipality may adopt, and first obtains the pertinent authorization or access control permit from the municipality where the urbanization, parceling or simple subdivision is located, as the case may be.
The municipality may establish, through regulations and in consultation with the Puerto Rico Planning Board, the procedure to grant authorizations or access control permits under this section. Urbanizers and developers shall not be subject to the provisions of subsections (a), (c) and (d) of § 64a of this title, nor § 64b of this title.
History —May 20, 1987, No. 21, p. 63, added as § 4 on Aug. 10, 1988, No. 156, p. 669, § 6; July 16, 1992, No. 22, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter II - Traffic Control (§§ 64 — 64h) › § 64b-2 - Showing of application

Any urbanizer, land developer, or builder of an urbanization, parceling or subdivision who, motu proprio, through any other person, or in any manner, offers, exhibits, promotes or, announces the sale of dwellings, parcels, plots or tracts of land with controlled access, must present the original certificate of the pertinent permit, as issued by the municipality, at the time he/she agrees to, or signs any commitment or purchase option. If on the date said option is signed, the petition for an access control permit is still pending in the pertinent municipality, the urbanizer or developer shall be bound to inform the status of said petition to the potential buyer. Every urbanizer or developer shall present to every purchaser, a certified copy of the access control permit issued by the pertinent municipality at the time the bill of sale is granted.
Any person who does not comply with the above shall be subject to an administrative fine of not less than one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500), nor of more than three thousand dollars ($3,000). Each failure to comply with the obligation imposed above, shall be deemed as a separate violation.
No urbanizer, land developer, or builder of an urbanization, parceling or simple subdivision may, motu proprio, through any other person, or in any way, offer, exhibit, promote, or announce the sale of dwellings, plots, parcels or tracts of land by inducing the belief that the street, urbanization or community shall have controlled access, without having obtained from the corresponding municipality and keeping in effect, the access control permit required in §§ 64—64h of this title, and if the permit has been applied for, he/she shall indicate the stage in which it is found. Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be subject to an administrative fine of not less than one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) nor more than three thousand dollars ($3,000). Each day that the above violation is incurred shall be deemed as a separate violation.
The Department of Consumer Affairs shall have primary jurisdiction to elucidate and resolve the complaints presented under this section according to the procedures and norms established in §§ 341 et seq. of Title 3, known as “Department of Consumer Affairs Organic Act”, and to the regulations adopted by virtue thereof, which are not incompatible with the provisions of this section.
History —May 20, 1987, No. 21, p. 63, added as § 4a on July 16, 1992, No. 22, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter II - Traffic Control (§§ 64 — 64h) › § 64c - Exceptions

This authorization shall be granted; provided, that under no circumstances shall free access be prevented to the Puerto Rico Police, Municipal Police, Fire Fighters, or any other emergency services, including public or private ambulance services; and to the employees of public or private corporations, their agents or contractors, that provide water, electric power, telephone, or solid waste collection services within the community subject to access control; nor to any official, employee or person who must visit the community on official business; students, teachers, officials and employees of the Department of Education who render services in the schools.
Provided, That if for lack of an efficient mechanism or person who may facilitate the access to the community during an emergency, and the police were compelled to force, destroy, mutilate or remove the above-mentioned facilities, neither the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico nor the municipalities shall be responsible for the damages they may cause.
The provisions of this section do not apply to the actions of the state in their function of regulating traffic and vehicle and pedestrian access to public and private urbanizations, streets, and residential communities because of safety, health or the general welfare, including, without it being understood as a limitation, the operations of the Puerto Rico Police, or the Puerto Rico National Guard, when these forces are mobilized by pertinent authorities to act in support of the forces of public safety, in operations to fight crime and drug trafficking, or to reestablish public security, specifically providing that the provisions of §§ 64-64h of this title do not apply to operations carried out in public housing projects under the authority conferred by Executive Order 0E-1993-08, promulgated by the Governor of Puerto Rico, or any other executive order duly promulgated by the First Executive under the powers conferred to him/her by the laws and the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
The provisions of §§ 64-64h of title shall not apply to investigating agents of the Puerto Rico Police; provided, that they show their identification card to the security guard on duty at the access control gate, nor to any other official Puerto Rico, Federal, or Municipal government motor vehicle, or any other motor vehicle responding to an emergency. These shall be exempt from the identification process; provided, that the license plate certifies it is an official vehicle. It is the responsibility of these controlled-access communities to take the necessary measures to comply with the provisions of §§ 64-64h of title.
History —May 20, 1987, No. 21, p. 63, § 4, renumbered as § 5 on Aug. 10, 1988, No. 156, p. 669, § 5; Dec. 30, 1998, No. 336, § 1; June 4, 2012, No. 105, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter II - Traffic Control (§§ 64 — 64h) › § 64d - Violations; revocation

Any violation or noncompliance with the requirements established above shall bring about the automatic revocation of the authorization, except when the permit or authorization has been recorded in the Property Registry of Puerto Rico, as authorized in § 64d-1 of this title. The expenses of dismantling or removing the access control facilities shall be the responsibility of and be defrayed by the residents and proprietors of the urbanization or community concerned who favored the control of the access.
Once the permit or authorization is registered in the Property Registry of Puerto Rico the authorization may not be revoked, but the municipality where the development of segregation is located may impose sanctions, if there is a municipal ordinance to such effects, on any natural or juridical person who is liable for violating or failing to comply with the requirements established above. When the permit or authorization has been requested by the urbanizer, developer or constructor, they shall be liable for such noncompliance or infractions as long as not more than sixty-five percent (65%) of the residences, lots or plots that make up the urbanization, subdivision or simple segregation, have been sold and delivered. When a council, board or residents’ association has been constituted, it shall be liable for noncompliance or infraction of the provisions of § 64c of this title and shall keep the access control under its authority, to administer and maintain it.
The municipal governments of Puerto Rico shall have the power to approve those municipal ordinances that are needed to sanction violations of the provisions of §§ 64-64h of this title or the regulations promulgated hereunder to a maximum of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250) for each violation. Each day that the same violation is committed shall be deemed as a separate violation.
History —May 20, 1987, No. 21, p. 63, § 5, renumbered as § 6 and amended on Aug. 10, 1988, No. 156, p. 669, § 7.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter II - Traffic Control (§§ 64 — 64h) › § 64d-2 - Cancellation of registration; requirements

The recording of the permit and authorization as indicated in § 64d-1 of this title in the Property Registry of Puerto Rico may be cancelled by complying with the following provisions:
(a) When the registration is requested under the provisions of subsection (a) of § 64d-1 of this title, the consent of ninety percent (90%) of the proprietors of the farms subject to the encumbrance shall be required.
(b) When the registration is requested under the provisions of subsection (b) of § 64d-1 of this title, the consent of seventy-five percent (75%) of the proprietors of the farms subject to the encumbrance shall be required.
(c) When the traffic and access control are of no use to the urbanization, street or community, the Council, Board, or Residents’ Association may resort to the Court of First Instance with jurisdiction for it to authorize the cancellation of the registration after summoning all the interested parties. This procedure shall be used when the mechanisms established in the two previous subsections cannot be used.
History —May 20, 1987, No. 21, p. 63, added as § 9 on Aug. 10, 1988, No. 156, p. 669, § 8.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter II - Traffic Control (§§ 64 — 64h) › § 64d-3 - Obligation of owners to contribute proportionally

(a) The council, board or association of residents is hereby empowered to impose a fee to cover the costs and expenses for the installation, operation and maintenance of the access control system, including the salaries or wages of the personnel under contract. It is likewise empowered to collect said fee and to resort to court action against a proprietor for payment of the debt on such account.
Obligation of payment shall fall upon the following owners:
(1) Owners of tracts of land whose authorization or permit has been filed under the procedure established in § 64d-1 of this title.
(2) Owners who authorized the petition to establish an access control, as implemented.
(3) Any owner who acquires a tract of land located in an urbanization, street or community which has been authorized by the pertinent municipality to control access or which, at the time of the sale, is in the process of obtaining the consent of three fourths (¾) of the proprietors, as recorded.
(4) When the petition has been made by the urbanizer, developer or builder, the payment of the fee shall be obligatory for any person who becomes the owner of the real property.
(5) Owners who did not expressly authorize the establishment of the access control system, but who at a later date committed themselves to its payment through a written contract.
(b) The proportional amount that each of said proprietors must contribute towards the aforementioned expenses shall be determined, fixed and imposed at the beginning of each calendar or fiscal year and shall be due and be payable in monthly installments. The fees not paid within the term fixed for their payment shall accrue interest at the maximum legal interest rate set for personal loans as established by the Interest Rate Regulatory Board for personal loans granted by commercial banks. Non-payment of three (3) or more consecutive installments shall bring about an additional penalty equal to one percent (1%) per month of the total amount owed.
The delinquent proprietor shall be required to pay the amount owed, through certified mail with acknowledgement of receipt, and should he/she not pay it within the term of fifteen (15) days after having received the notice by certified mail, payment may be demanded through court action, in which case the court shall impose the payment of the costs and legal fees upon the delinquent debtor.
Should the plaintiff require it, in those cases in which the delinquent proprietor has leased the real property, the court shall order the lessee to judicially consign to the order of the plaintiff the necessary amount of the corresponding payments to the lessor for rental payments, as they come due, until the debt incurred by the proprietor is fully paid up.
History —May 20, 1987, No. 21, p. 63, added as § 10 on Aug. 10, 1988, No. 156, p. 669, § 8; July 16, 1992, No. 22, § 6.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter II - Traffic Control (§§ 64 — 64h) › § 64d-4 - Preferred credit; limitation

Credits against any proprietor for his share of the expenses referred to in subsection (a) of § 64d-3 of this title, shall have preference over any other credit of any nature, except the following:
(a) Credits to the order of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the pertinent municipality for the total of the last five (5) annuities and the current unpaid, due and delinquent taxes which encumber the property.
(b) Mortgage credits recorded in the Property Registry of Puerto Rico.
History —May 20, 1987, No. 21, p. 63, added as § 11 on Aug. 10, 1988, No. 156, p. 669, § 8; July 16, 1992, No. 22, § 7.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter II - Traffic Control (§§ 64 — 64h) › § 64d-5 - Joint liability of voluntary and involuntary acquirers

The obligation of the owner of a property for his proportional share of the expenses indicated in § 64d-3 of this title shall constitute a lien on said property when it was constituted pursuant to § 64d-1 of this title. Therefore, the voluntary acquirer of the property thus encumbered shall be jointly liable to the transferor for the payment of the sums he owes pursuant to § 64d-3 of this title until the time of the transfer, without prejudice to the acquirer’s right to claim restitution against the other grantor for the amounts he has paid as joint debtor. The involuntary acquirer of a real property subject to this subchapter shall be responsible only for debts arising from the expenses set forth in § 64d-3 of this title that have not been satisfied during the six (6)-month period preceding the time of acquisition of the property, as well as for any balance that may have accumulated from the acquisition of said property by the involuntary acquirer, which balance shall be paid on monthly installments or within the term provided by the Homeowners” Council, Board or Association. For purposes of the above provisions, an involuntary acquirer shall be a mortgage lender that acquires a real property when collecting a debt subject to this subchapter.
The proprietor of a property subject to an encumbrance by virtue of the provisions of §§ 64—64h of this title shall be bound to inform any voluntary acquirer of said property of the liens that encumber the same for the expenses indicated in § 64d-3 of this title. The information on the liens that affect the property must be furnished to the voluntary acquirer prior to the closing of the corresponding transaction.
The voluntary acquirer may sue the title holder who fails to inform him of said encumbrances for twice the total amount of the debt for the expenses indicated in § 64d-3 of this title, plus the costs and attorney’s fees of the plaintiff’s attorney.
History —May 20, 1987, No. 21, p. 63, added as § 12 on Aug. 10, 1988, No. 156, p. 669, § 8; Aug. 5, 2016, No. 119, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter II - Traffic Control (§§ 64 — 64h) › § 64e - Regulations

The Puerto Rico Planning Board shall adopt regulations to be used by all municipal governments in the establishing of norms and procedures needed to obtain the authorizations and permits for motor vehicle traffic control and the public use of the streets in the urbanizations and communities pursuant to the provisions of §§ 64—64h of this title.
Municipal governments may adopt, through ordinances, those norms they may deem pertinent regarding those matters not incompatible with what has already been established in the regulations of the Planning Board, and that are needed to carry out the purposes of this §§ 64—64h of this title.
History —May 20, 1987, No. 21, p. 63, § 6, renumbered as § 13 and amended on Aug. 10, 1988, No. 156, p. 669, § 9; July 16, 1992, No. 22, § 8.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter II - Traffic Control (§§ 64 — 64h) › § 64f - Bond

In order to grant the authorization or permit pursuant to §§ 64 and 64b of this title, the municipality where the development or subdivision is located may require the posting of a bond or security which shall not exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000.00). Said bond or security shall secure the situations foreseen in § 64d of this title.
History —May 20, 1987, No. 21, p. 63, added as § 14 on Aug. 10, 1988, No. 156, p. 669, § 10.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter II - Traffic Control (§§ 64 — 64h) › § 64g - Exception to fee requirement

Proprietors who did not expressly authorize the establishment of an access control system shall not be bound to pay fees for the establishment, operation, maintenance or removal of said system, except in those cases in which they bind themselves to those payments through a written contract. When they so bind themselves, those proprietors shall be subject to the obligations and provisions of § 64d-3 of this title. Any proprietor or resident shall have access to the area subject to access control under equal conditions, and any proprietor may take part by voice and vote in the general assemblies held by the council, board or association of residents, whether he/she is or is not a member of said body.
History —May 20, 1987, No. 21, p. 63, added as § 15 on Aug. 10, 1988, No. 156, p. 669, § 10; July 16, 1992, No. 22, § 9.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter II - Traffic Control (§§ 64 — 64h) › § 64h - Notice of acquisition

(a) Any person acquiring title to a dwelling in an urbanization, street or community where an access control system has been established, shall notify the council, board or association of residents of his/her name, address and the date on which the property was acquired, no later than thirty (30) days following the date of acquisition. Within this term, he/she shall also provide documentary evidence of the acquisition.
Any person selling any property in an access controlled street, urbanization or community, is bound to advise to the voluntary purchaser the requirement to give notice established herein, on or before the date of acquisition.
(b) In every case of the sale or lease of a dwelling in an urbanization, street of community in which an access-control system has been established, the title holder of said dwelling shall advise the council, board or association of residents of that fact within thirty (30) days following the date of the sale or lease. The notice shall include the full name and address of the purchaser or lessor, and the exact date of the sale or lease. The title holder shall also require the purchaser or lessee to state in the instrument of sale or lease, as the case may be, a statement indicating that he/she has knowledge of and shall fully observe the provisions of §§ 64—64h of this title, and the regulations adopted by virtue thereof by the council, board or association of residents.
The lessor titleholder shall continue to be exclusively liable for the fees for the repair and maintenance expenses of all access-control mechanisms, equipment, systems and other devices, and shall also be liable for the lessor’s noncompliance of the provisions of §§ 64—64h of this title and the applicable regulations.
History —May 20, 1987, No. 21, p. 63, added as § 16 on July 16, 1992, No. 22, § 10.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter III - Geology and Hydrogeology Division (§§ 65 — 65d) › § 65 - Attachment

A Geology and Hydrogeology Division is hereby attached to the Planning Board.
History —Sept. 15, 2004, No. 302, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter III - Geology and Hydrogeology Division (§§ 65 — 65d) › § 65a - Functions and duties

The Geology and Hydrogeology Division, created by virtue of § 65 of this title, shall have the following functions and duties:
(a) To participate in the technical analysis of the proposals for development presented to the Planning Board;
(b) to collaborate in the preparation, analysis and implementation of general plans such as the Master Plan for the Use of the Land of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, regional plans and the territorial ordinance plans of the municipalities;
(c) to participate in the evaluation of public policies and development guidelines;
(d) to promote the development of integral strategies and plans for the management and conservation of hydrographic basins and maritime-terrestrial zones;
(e) to study and identify parcels of land that because of their lithic, mineral, and geological relief or formation have natural or economic value or require special protection or management;
(f) to identify and evaluate land which is vulnerable to situations such as flooding, tsunamis, landslides, landslips and erosion;
(g) to study the condition and promote the conservation of our surface and subterranean water resources;
(h) to conduct detailed studies of plans, aerial photographs, and soils, as well as geotechnical studies and other related documents;
(i) to participate in educational and orientation initiatives for the community, developed by the Planning Board and other entities of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Government of the United States, and
(j) to collaborate with the Legislature and the agencies, instrumentalities, dependencies, public corporations and municipal governments of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico pursuant to the applicable legal and regulatory provisions as well as to the priorities and work plans provided by the Planning Board.
History —Sept. 15, 2004, No. 302, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter III - Geology and Hydrogeology Division (§§ 65 — 65d) › § 65b - Internal organization

The Planning Board shall determine the internal organization of the Geology and Hydrogeology Division and shall provide for all matters related to its human resources, professional services, equipment and materials, according to the applicable legal and regulatory standards.
It is also provided that all public entities concerned with the matters set forth in §§ 65—65d of this title, such as the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, the Environmental Quality Board and other related entities, shall be bound to submit to the Board all the information and documentation needed to obey the mandate of §§ 65—65d of this title and ensure the optimum operations of the Geology and Hydrogeology Division herein established. For that same purpose it is also provided that said entities must make this information diligently and expeditiously available so that the Board may discharge its ministerial duties in the adjudication of development projects on the basis of the most precise information possible.
History —Sept. 15, 2004, No. 302, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter III - Geology and Hydrogeology Division (§§ 65 — 65d) › § 65c - Annual report

The Planning Board shall annually submit to the Legislature a report on the works, accomplishments and needs of the Geology and Hydrogeology Division created by virtue of §§ 65—65d of this title. Said report shall be submitted not later than March 1 of each year and shall cover the preceding natural year.
History —Sept. 15, 2004, No. 302, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter III - Geology and Hydrogeology Division (§§ 65 — 65d) › § 65d - Funds

The funds needed to comply with the provisions of §§ 65—65d of this title shall be consigned in the General Expenses Budget of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
History —Sept. 15, 2004, No. 302, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter IV - Demographic Challenge Act (§§ 66 — 66c) › § 66 - Multi-sector and Multidisciplinary Committee consisting of the government, academia, and the private sector (Committee)—Creation, composition, and duties

(a) The Multi-sector and Multidisciplinary Committee consisting of the government, academia, and the private sector (Committee) is hereby created.
(b) The Committee shall devise an integrative and comprehensive work plan to address the demographic challenge.
(c) The Committee shall be attached to and chaired by the Planning Board.
(d) The Committee shall be composed of representatives of the following government agencies and professional organizations and educational institutions:
(1) The Planning Board.
(2) The Department of Health.
(3) The Department of the Family.
(4) The Department of Housing.
(5) The Department of Education.
(6) The College of Certified Public Accountants.
(7) The College of Engineers and Surveyors.
(8) The Puerto Rico Surgeons Association.
(9) The College of Social Workers.
(10) The Gerontology Program of the Graduate School of Public Health of the University of Puerto Rico.
(11) AARP Puerto Rico.
(e) The main duty of the Committee shall be to devise the aforesaid work plan, geared to identifying and implementing necessary measures for the development of the Puerto Rico of 2015, by addressing the needs of its demographic composition.
(f) The Planning Board, the Department of Health, and the Department of the Family shall be the government agencies responsible for developing a work plan to address the demographic issues.
(g) The Committee shall apply population projections, such as: school enrollment, older population, and civilian noninstitutional population 16 years of age and older. In addition, it shall develop methodologies to carry out other type of projections, including household, family, and housing unit projections.
History —Dec. 16, 2010, No. 199, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter IV - Demographic Challenge Act (§§ 66 — 66c) › § 66a - Responsibilities

(a) The Committee shall be constituted within sixty (60) days after the approval of this act. The Committee shall adopt regulations within ninety (90) days after being constituted, begin developing the work plan required under this subchapter, and analyze population statistics by age and sex based on the data of the 2010 Census of Population for Puerto Rico.
(b) For such purpose, it is necessary to conduct a study to analyze the future demographic expectations and identify the service needs for such population. All government agencies and professional and educational organizations mentioned in § 66 of this title shall participate in this study.
(c) The Committee is hereby empowered to establish the necessary alliances and contacts with Commonwealth or federal agencies or with private institutions to carry out projects that further the purposes of this subchapter.
(d) Proposals submitted to the Committee shall be deemed to be public documents.
(e) The Committee shall hold one (1) formal meeting every three (3) months for a total of four (4) annual meetings.
(f) The Multi-sector Committee, through the Planning Board, is hereby empowered to hold public hearings and summon any other entities as necessary to attain the objectives proposed therein.
(g) The Work Plan of the Committee shall describe the best course of action for the social development of Puerto Rico, paying special attention to issues such as housing, education, health, finance, and access to government services.
History —Dec. 16, 2010, No. 199, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter IV - Demographic Challenge Act (§§ 66 — 66c) › § 66b - Budget appropriation

Each agency that participates in the Multi-sector and Multidisciplinary Committee herein created shall include any expenditures in connection with this subchapter in its operating budget and state so in its annual budget request.
History —Dec. 16, 2010, No. 199, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1A - Planning Board (§§ 62 — 66c) › Subchapter IV - Demographic Challenge Act (§§ 66 — 66c) › § 66c - Annual progress report

At the close of each fiscal year, the Committee shall submit a progress report to the Governor of Puerto Rico and the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico so that they may take the necessary administrative and legislative measures for the benefit of the People.
History —Dec. 16, 2010, No. 199, § 6.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1C - Certification of Plans (§§ 73 — 75a) › § 73 - Definitions

For the purposes of §§ 73—73 l of this title, the following terms shall have the meaning stated below:
(a) Agency.— Shall mean the Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, Electric Power Authority, Environmental Quality Board, the Department of Transportation and Public Works, the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, the Transportation and Highways Authority, the Solid Waste Authority, the Puerto Rico Firefighters Corps, the Public Service Commission, the Department of Health, the Department of Labor and Human Resources, the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, the municipalities of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Telecommunications Regulatory Board, the Commonwealth Historic Preservation Office and any other agency to be created or that has future inherence in the process for the issue of construction permits.
(b) Architect.— Shall mean any natural person licensed to practice the profession of architecture in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(c) Certification.— Shall mean when the professional who designed the specialized phase establishes before the agency concerned that the plans and other documents submitted as final comply with the established laws, regulations and specifications, using the forms required for such purposes.
(d) Approval.— Shall mean the issuing of the authorization of certification.
(e) Construction.— Shall mean, in addition to the usual definition of the term construction, any expansion or modification of works, buildings or structures.
(f) Engineer.— Shall mean any natural person licensed to practice the profession of engineering in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(g) Gross negligence.— Shall mean negligence of such nature that shows an absolute disregard for the safety of others under circumstances that would probably be harmful to them, and does not mean mere carelessness.
(h) Works.— Shall mean all buildings, structures, equipment, machinery or installations, as well as improvements to the land or infrastructure, necessary to the project for its particular use.
(i) Construction permit.— Shall mean the written authorization issued pursuant to applicable laws and regulations, for the construction of buildings, structures and urbanization works.
History —July 19, 1985, No. 7, p. 625, § 1; Aug. 21, 1999, No. 296, § 1; Aug. 13, 2008, No. 257, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1C - Certification of Plans (§§ 73 — 75a) › § 73a - Regulations and codes

(a) Regulations on certification procedures.— The agencies are hereby authorized to prepare, adopt and amend regulations to establish and put into effect a system of certification of final plans and pertinent documents for construction projects of works that require a construction permit, as well as everything related to the inspection and supervision of the works, and to procedures for revising, correcting and/or penalizing faults in the certification process, in the plans and documents submitted, or in the construction of the work subjected to the endorsement, permit or approval, pursuant to the provisions of the Organic Act of each agency, and §§ 73-73 l of this title, without being subject to the provisions of §§ 2101 et seq. of Title 3.
The regulations shall cover the procedure needed for the filing of plans and certified documents with the purpose of obtaining permits and endorsements from the agencies.
In all the procedures related to the preparation, and adoption of and in the case of future amendments to these regulations, the agencies must work under the coordination of the Planning Board. It will point out the fundamental guidelines which the agencies must follow in the certification procedures. It shall also have the obligation of coordinating the work so that the certification procedures required by each agency are as uniform as possible.
Before adopting or amending these regulations in the future, the agency, always in coordination with the Planning Board, shall develop a direct consultation and public hearings process, after due notice to all parties that could be affected or committed once it is approved.
Before the regulations on the certification process of each one of the agencies take effect, they must be approved by the Planning Board and the Permit Management Office.
(b) Regulations, or technical specification codes for designs.— Each agency must prepare regulations or a code including all those technical specifications that, in its judgment, are necessary during the course of, and in the construction of the works. These regulations should give the professional who is to design and draw up the plans and documents to be certified, all the elements, requirements, and technical details which will allow him to design and draw up the plans and documents, in the manner which is most in tune with the technical requirements of the work to be constructed.
(c) Term for preparing the regulations or code.— Each agency shall have ninety (90) days, commencing on the effective date of this act, to prepare and adopt in final form, the regulations, or codes on certification procedures and technical specifications for design and construction, subject to the prior approval of the Planning Board and the Permit Management Office, when required.
History —July 19, 1985, No. 7, p. 625, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1C - Certification of Plans (§§ 73 — 75a) › § 73b - Certification

Once the engineer or architect who designed the specialized phase completes all those procedures and complies with the regulations established pursuant to the provisions of § 73a of this title, he shall proceed to certify the plans, or work project and the other necessary documents. This certification procedure shall be mandatory and exclusive, in order to obtain endorsements and approvals from these agencies.
History —July 19, 1985, No. 7, p. 625, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART I - Public Planning (§§ 1 — 229ccc) › Chapter 1C - Certification of Plans (§§ 73 — 75a) › § 73c - Endorsement and authorization by agency

When the engineer or architect who designed the specialized phase submits to the agency concerned the duly certified plans and other documents for the purpose of obtaining an endorsement or approval of construction, the agency shall issue the corresponding endorsement or authorization, based on compliance with the regulations established pursuant to § 73a of this title and on the certification submitted by the engineer or architect, and shall file a copy of said authorization along with the plans and other documents submitted.
Approval must be given as soon as possible and this should never take more than five (5) working days, except for the provisions of § 73e of this title.
History —July 19, 1985, No. 7, p. 625, § 4.