P.R. Laws tit. 23, § 63
All regulations and amendments thereto adopted by the Board and approved by the Governor, except emergency regulations or amendments to existing regulations in cases of emergency, authorized by subsection (6) of § 62j of this title, shall take effect fifteen (15) days after their approval. Regulations so approved shall be filed promptly in the office of the Secretary of State and instead of their publication in full, the Board may give notice to the public that the regulations and amendments thereto have been approved by publishing, for the information of the interested persons, in one or more of the newspapers of general circulation in Puerto Rico a general description of the provisions that may affect or be of most interest to the public; Provided, That the Zoning Maps that the Board may approve and adopt shall form part and parcel of and take effect jointly with the Zoning Regulations already adopted by the Board; Provided, further, That the Zoning Maps adopted by the Board shall take effect, after signed by the Governor, fifteen (15) days following the date on which they were first posted to the public in the city halls of the municipalities affected; Provided, further, That the Board shall make public the adoption of the Zoning Maps, the posting thereof at the proper City Halls and the existence of said maps in the Office of the Secretary of the Board by publishing a notice for three (3) consecutive days in a newspaper of general circulation in Puerto Rico.
The amendments to the Zoning Maps which may be subsequently approved by the Board, adopted and signed by the Governor, shall not introduce fundamental changes to the existing map except for the purpose of implementing the recommendations of the Land-Use Plans and of the Integral Development Plan of Puerto Rico to the extent the latter have been approved. These amendments approved by the Board shall also be made known to the public by the procedure provided herein for the Zoning Maps; Provided, however, That in these cases the publication of the notice in the press shall be made only once in a newspaper of general circulation in Puerto Rico.
Once an amendment to a Zoning Map is approved by the Board, the Governor’s approval and signature thereof shall not be necessary and it shall take effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in a newspaper of general circulation in Puerto Rico, subject to the provisions of § 63c of this title.
History —June 24, 1975, No. 75, p. 183, § 28, eff. July 1, 1975.