P.R. Laws tit. 23, § 2601
The Administrator shall delimit, in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation and Public Works and with the approval of the Puerto Rico Planning Board, those parts of the terrestrial maritime zone and other lands adjacent to a port which must become part of its harbor zone. Every harbor zone shall be delimited through regulation approved by the Administrator upon the holding of a public hearing of quasi-legislative character as provided in § 2109 of this title. The Administrator shall give notice of the holding of the public hearing and of the day, hour and place of its holding, by publishing an advertisement to such effect in two (2) or more newspapers of general circulation in Puerto Rico at least fifteen (15) days in advance of the date appointed for the hearing. The hearing shall be held in the city or town in which the port in question is located, but may be held in the place considered most appropriate by the Administrator should it concern more than one (1) port. The Administrator shall include in the publication of the said notice an appropriate description which he may illustrate with a plan, of the delimitation of the harbor zone or zones which he intends to adopt. After the holding of the public hearing, the Administrator shall approve the corresponding regulations and shall submit same together with the record of the hearing to the Puerto Rico Planning Board. If the regulations are approved by the Planning Board, same shall become effective with force of law after thirty (30) days of its promulgation by the Administrator as provided by law. The Administrator may appeal to the Governor, within the term of thirty (30) days reckoning from the date in which the Board notifies its decision, of any resolution of the Board disapproving or amending the regulation, or may accept the amendments made by the Board. If the Administrator should appeal to the Governor and the latter approved the regulation, for which he may make the amendments which he deems necessary, same shall take effect thirty (30) days after its promulgation as provided by law.
History —June 28, 1968, No. 151, p. 459, § 6, art. 6.01; Apr. 27, 1994, No. 14, § 2.