P.R. Laws tit. 18, § 122
The Council of Secretaries shall consider the applications as they are received, and shall allot the funds available for the purpose among the applicants as far as possible to do so. In case any school director whose application has been approved shall fail to provide, within five (5) months, a suitable site for the erection of the building, the Secretary of Education shall report the fact to the Council of Secretaries and the allotment to said school director shall be declared null and void; Provided, That the cancellation of any allotment for failure to provide a site shall not operate as a bar to any subsequent application of the same school director by appropriate ordinance duly enacted. All applications which may not be acted upon for lack of funds shall be considered in force until the close of each fiscal year when all such applications shall lapse. In such cases renewal of the application may be made by a new ordinance.
History —Mar. 14, 1907, p. 199, § 5; May 15, 1931, No. 98, p. 594, § 10.