P.R. Laws tit. 12, § 216h
The ownership of the public and private lands proposed herein to comprise the Ecological Corridor of San Juan shall hereby be identified to expedite the acquisition of said lands. The delimitation and demarcation of said lands which shall be a part of this zone is necessary to ensure the exclusion of inhabited areas having residential structures, as well as common and public or private educational facilities. If any particular property is identified as incompatible with the uses set forth by this chapter, the Secretary of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, as part of the conservation and management plan for the area, shall not be hindered from carrying out the eminent domain, cession and transfer of same pursuant to law. Government agencies that are owners of properties located within the geographical limits of the Ecological Corridor of San Juan shall hereby authorize the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources to occupy and use the land. In the case of public corporations that likewise own lands that shall become part of the Ecological Corridor of San Juan, said entities shall hereby authorize the occupation and use of said land. Later, the agencies as well as the public corporations shall negotiate with the Secretary of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources to agree upon reasonable acquisition terms to carry out the Conservation and Management Plan of the Ecological Corridor of San Juan, without prejudice to the finances or commitments of said public corporations. Any agency and/or public corporation owning property within the Ecological Corridor of San Juan and subject and/or bound to the payment of property taxes shall hereby be exempted from said payments.
History —Aug. 28, 2003, No. 206, § 9.