P.R. Laws tit. 21, § 4005
The creation of new municipalities shall be executed pursuant to the enabling act which is approved to such effects. In creating new municipalities, the population and territorial limits that the municipality will have, the effect of the new municipality on the normal development of the neighboring municipalities, and whether the resulting municipality and those that are affected by the creation of the new municipality will have sufficient economic capacity to defray the operating expenses of its administration and to render public services of a municipal nature, shall be taken into account.
It is necessary for the creation of a municipality to respond to its possibilities of fiscal and administrative self-sufficiency, based on the number of inhabitants, the expansion and levels of urban, commercial and industrial development, among others; and on the primary sources of income, to wit, property taxes, municipal licenses, the lottery, other local revenues and the contributions and benefits from the federal government.
History —Aug. 30, 1991, No. 81, § 1.007; Apr. 13, 1995, No. 36, § 3.