P.R. Laws tit. 12, § 5023
The Secretary of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (DNER) shall be empowered to exercise eminent domain over any particular or private properties, structures or buildings located in the piece of land in question, or abutting with or adjacent to said piece of land, that in his/her judgment should be a part of the Natural Reserve created by §§ 5019–5023 of this title. Furthermore, he/she shall have the powers necessary and convenient to carry out the purposes and provisions of §§ 5019–5023 of this title, as well as all the additional implicit and incidental powers that are appropriate and necessary to effect, carry out, perform and exercise the aforementioned powers and to fulfill the ends provided for by legislative mandate.
History —Sept. 1, 2000, No. 283, § 6, retroactive to July 1, 2000.