P.R. Laws tit. 21, § 4151
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The legislative powers conferred hereby to the municipalities shall be exercised by a municipal legislature.
The municipal legislature of each one of the municipalities shall be composed of the total number of the members indicated below, taking the last decennial census as a basis:
POPULATION NUMBER OF MEMBERS (a) 40,000 or more inhabitants 16 members (b) Over 20,000 inhabitants but less than 40,000 14 members (c) Less than 20,000 inhabitants 12 members
The municipal legislature of the capital city of San Juan shall be composed of seventeen (17) members, and that of the municipality of Culebra, of five (5) members.
History —Aug. 30, 1991, No. 81, § 4.001; Apr. 13, 1995, No. 36, § 9.