P.R. Laws tit. 21, § 822
(a) The Department reserves the right to fulfill its obligation to supervise the municipalities so they, in turn, fulfill their obligation to provide administrative, maintenance, sanitation and beautification services.
(b) The Department shall pay for the water and electric power consumed by the transferred facilities during their first year after being transferred; the second year it shall pay fifty percent (50%) of such invoices; the third year the municipality shall assume full responsibility. For such a purpose the year shall begin once the certification has been granted, as defined in this chapter.
(c) The Department reserves the right to establish recreational and sports programs in all community facilities without being charged for the right of use in the transferred properties. The Department may not apply this reserved right in those facilities where the municipality is conducting recurrent, programmed and well attended activities.
(d) The Department shall have the subsidiary obligation of ensuring and providing maintenance in those community facilities that are unattended by the municipalities. The maintenance to be provided by the municipalities must never be less than that provided by the Department before said facilities were transferred to the municipalities. Should the Department need to provide said maintenance, the same shall be chargeable to the pertinent municipality.
(e) The Department reserves the right to fine the municipality that fails to fulfill the obligations established in this section, under the criteria established in Act No. 126 of June 13, 1980.
History —Aug. 17, 2001, No. 120, § 10.