P.R. Laws tit. 28, § 552

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§ 552. Lots for various purposes

The Housing Development and Improvements Administration shall fix traffic or rights-of-way and set aside lots to be leased to merchants and to industrial establishments where beneficiaries of this Title of the act may work, or to be granted to the Commonwealth or federal government or to the municipal governments, for medical dispensaries, police stations, schools, playgrounds, or for any other purpose that the Housing Development and Improvements Administration may deem convenient or of social benefit to the occupants of the parcels mentioned in the preceding section. The Housing Development and Improvements Administration may set aside lots of not more than one-fourth of a cuerda of land in the rural communities established under this Title to be leased according to such terms and conditions as may be determined for the purpose, to public school teachers, churches, religious ministers, consumer and production cooperatives, public employees and to any other educational, social, religious, civic or charitable nonprofit organizations, provided it belongs to and/or benefits the inhabitants of the community; Provided, That in the case of those public employees whose monthly income does not exceed what is established by administrative provision by the Executive Director, and that meet the requirements as usufructuaries, as established in this act, may be given the lot in usufruct. The Housing Development and Improvements Administration may not lease more than one lot to each of such educational, social, religious, civic, or charitable organizations; Provided, That in no case shall lots be ceded or leased in differentiated or privileged places in such rural communities; Provided, further, That in the lease contracts of such lots it shall be specifically stipulated that the same may not be subleased except upon the prior approval of the Director of the Housing Development and Improvements Administration, and provided said subleases are for the same purposes as the original lease.

The Housing Development and Improvements Administration may set aside a lot of not more than one-fourth of a cuerda of land in the rural communities established under this Title to be leased on such terms and conditions it may determine to such effect for facilities for the common use of labor organizations.

History —Apr. 12, 1941, No. 26, p. 388, § 75; May 11, 1942, No. 197, p. 996, § 22; June 20, 1955, No. 85, p. 342; June 15, 1965, No. 30, p. 56; July 1, 1975, No. 142, p. 426, § 1; May 27, 1980, No. 58, p. 151, § 1.