(a) The HTA shall submit within forty-five (45) days after the approval of this act to each body of the Legislative Assembly and the Governor a Public and Capital Improvements Plan for Highways, Bridges, and Thoroughfares (the “Plan”,) which shall include the following:
(1) An itemization of the projects to be developed by location, including costs.
(2) Average time frame of projects to be developed.
(b) The Legislative Assembly shall evaluate the projects contemplated in the Plan and may recommend through Joint Resolution to such effect, any necessary modifications in accordance with the public policy set forth in this Act within sixty (60) days after submitting the Plan for the Legislative Assembly’s” consideration.
(c) The Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico is hereby authorized to make an advance funding to the Highway and Transportation Authority of up to a maximum of fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) on or before April 15, 2015, to fund the public works and capital improvements contemplated in the Plan, in accordance with the terms agreed on between the Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico and the Highway and Transportation Authority. Said advance may have as its source of repayment, if sufficient, future revenues of the Highway and Transportation Authority; notwithstanding the foregoing, said advance may be assumed, by agreement between the Highway and Transportation Authority and the Infrastructure Financing Authority, by the Infrastructure Financing Authority and be considered as transferred debt, as such term is defined in § 1923 of Title 3.
History —Jan. 15, 2015, No. 1, § 3.12.