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) › § 62l - Puerto Rico Integral Development Plan

The Planning Board shall prepare and adopt an Integral Development Plan which shall set forth the policies and strategies for the Integral Development of Puerto Rico. The Integral Development Plan, which shall be revised periodically, shall guide the government bodies in the drafting of their plans, programs and projects. The Integral Development Plan, or any part thereof, shall take effect immediately after being adopted by the Board and approved by the Governor. A copy of this Plan, or any part thereof thus approved, shall be submitted to the Legislature by the Governor immediately after its approval. The former shall have not less than 45 days for the date in which they are received at the Offices of the Secretaries of both Bodies, whether during a regular or a special session, in which to state their disagreement regarding any aspect of the Plan through a concurrent resolution approved to such effects. Said action shall stay the part thus objected to by the Legislature.
During the process of preparing and adopting the Integral Development Plan, the Board:
In the process of preparing and adopting the Integral Development Plan the Board:
(1) Shall compile information, frame indices on the economy, the physical environment and the society; shall make surveys and analyses of these indices, in coordination with the pertinent government bodies; shall advise the executive and legislative branches and shall submit reports to the Governor and to the Legislature on the development of the country and its most critical and urgent social, economic, physical, and environmental and physical infrastructure problems, as well as on the results and consequences of the existing public policies.
(2) Shall translate and articulate social values into goals and objectives. Shall formulate strategies of integral development including measures of action directed to accomplish the established objectives and goals in an efficient and effective manner. Furthermore, it shall recommend criteria and priorities to be used in the process of decision on the use of the country’s available resources.
(3) Shall advise, coordinate and assist the different government bodies and groups thereof formed in sectors in the preparation, adoption and implementation of their respective functional and sectorial plans and programs. In these tasks, it shall be the responsibility of the Board to make available to the different instrumentalities of the public sector, projections on the data and basic variables for planning, such as population, employment, resources and others; counsel them as to the methodology they should use in the preparation of their functional and sectorial plans and programs, as well as to the content of these plans and programs.
(4) Shall advise, coordinate and assist the different government bodies or the entities which the Board may designate in the preparation, adoption and implementation of urban, and rural regional plans and programs. The different government bodies shall prepare these plans in conformity with the policies and strategies which the Board may adopt with relation to the geographical distribution of the population and of the economic activity as well as of the patterns of urbanization, rural development and physical infrastructure necessary to accomplish the desired geographical distributions of the population and of the economic activity.
(5) Shall encourage and establish systems of consultations and citizen participation in the entire process of preparing, adopting and implementing the policies and strategies of integral development of Puerto Rico. Every work or project to be performed by any person or entity shall be consistent with the Integral Development Plan of Puerto Rico.
The Board shall render an annual report to the Governor and to the Legislature on the progress of the preparation of the Integral Development Plan.
(6) Shall design and prepare an Integral Master Plan for the Socioeconomic Development of the Central Region of Puerto Rico in conjunction with the Department of Commerce, the Tourist Company, the Department of Agriculture, the Economic Development Administration and the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, and in close consultation with the Commissioner of Municipal Affairs and the municipal governments of the region, which will outline the political, commercial and tourist strategies for the socioeconomic development of the Central Region, as defined in subsection (v) of § 62b of this title, using the same criteria and approval procedures that were used in preparing the Integral Development Plan for Puerto Rico. The Plan that is designed by virtue of this subsection, for which the University of Puerto Rico will be invited to offer its suggestions, shall be prepared using the Central Region as an essential part within the integral development of the Country.
History —June 24, 1975, No. 75, p. 183, § 13; Dec. 9, 1993, No. 114, § 4; Feb. 15, 1996, No. 8, § 1.