2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 3 - General Provisions (§§ 621-639 — 1100a) › Chapter 103 - Corporation for the Revitalization of Urban Centers and Areas (§§ 1096 — 1096r) › Subchapter I - General Provisions (§§ 1096 — 1096b) › § 1096 - Definitions

For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the meaning expressed below, unless another meaning is clearly indicated by the context:
(a) Agency.— Shall mean any agency, department, bureau, commission, committee, board, office, dependency, instrumentality, public corporation, authority and municipality and any subsidiary or entity affiliated to any of these or other government body.
(b) Urban area.— Includes the land within the perimeter or sphere of urban expansion, as delimited by the Planning Board on the urban expansion maps of each municipality or that perimeter or sphere defined as urban land or land capable of being urbanized in the corresponding Territorial Ordinance Plan, and which falls under Regulation No. 22 of December 30, 1992, “Ordinance of the Infrastructure in the Public Space”, of the Planning Board, or a subsequent regulation or under the territory classified as urban land or land capable of being urbanized by the territorial plans which are part of the ordinance plans of the same regulation and any adjacent area which merits being classified as an urban area.
(c) Housing Financing Authority.— Shall mean the Puerto Rico Housing Financing Authority, a public corporation subsidiary of the Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico, created pursuant to the provisions of §§ 924 et seq. of Title 7, known as the “Puerto Rico Housing Financing Authority Act”.
(d) Urban center.— Shall mean that geographic portion that comprises the heart or core of a town or city which has been defined as such by the municipality in an area plan, or designated as historic zone, or delimited by the Office of Urban Affairs with the advice of the Planning Board and in close coordination with the mayor of the municipality subject to renewal.
(e) Corporation.— Shall mean the Corporation for the Revitalization of Urban Centers created pursuant to this chapter.
(f) Department.— Shall mean the Department of Housing of Puerto Rico, created pursuant to the provisions of §§ 441–441j of Title 3.
(g) Developer.— Shall mean any person who builds, rebuilds or substantially improves a property or an area within an urban center designated under the provisions of this chapter and who holds an urban developer’s or city planner’s license issued by the Department of Consumer Affairs.
(h) Board.— Shall mean the Board of Directors of the Corporation.
(i) Planning Board.— Shall mean the Puerto Rico Planning Board, created pursuant to the provisions of §§ 62–62j of Title 23, known as the “Puerto Rico Planning Board Organic Act”.
(j) Person.— Shall mean any company, corporation, partnership, firm, business association, special partnership, individual or group of individuals, trust, succession and any other natural or juridical person.
(k) Puerto Rico.— Shall mean the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(l) Revitalization of urban centers.— Shall mean the public policy provided in this chapter, directed towards repopulating and revitalizing the urban centers and areas through the restructuring or rehabilitation of structures that are obsolete, dilapidated, abandoned or in ruins and the development of vacant lots and groups of lots, among others, to make the cities and communities livable places with parks and recreational spaces, and communal, recreational, educational, cultural, artistic and commercial areas and housing facilities of all types.
(m) Secretary of the Treasury.— Shall mean the Secretary of the Department of the Treasury or the officer upon whom the latter delegates his/her powers and duties pursuant to the Department of the Treasury Organic Act.
(n) Secretary of Housing.— Shall mean the Secretary of the Department of Housing of Puerto Rico or the officer upon whom the latter delegates his/her powers and duties pursuant to the Department of Housing Organic Act.
History —Aug. 11, 2004, No. 209, § 1.03.