P.R. Laws tit. 23, § 5046
The Secretary of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, pursuant to Sections 5(h) and 6(c) of the Organic Act of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (§§ 151 et seq. of Title 3), shall carry out within ninety (90) days after the approval of this act, an official delimitation of all public domain lands related to the maritime-terrestrial zone of the District. In the graphic depiction of said delimitation, the Secretary of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources shall show the alignment projected by the United States Army Corps of Engineers for the construction of the Martín Peña Canal, as well as the Conservation Strip determined in the Land Use Plan adopted by the Planning Board. Once this official delimitation and the graphic depiction established in this section are carried out, all the lands north and south of the delimitation line of the Conservation Strip shall be declared patrimony of the Commonwealth under the ownership of the Corporation. Capital assets located at the District shall be exempt from the application of rolling or salvage easements. It shall be understood that, one hundred sixty (160) days after the effective date of this act, the Corporation shall obtain ownership of the lands for which titles have not been granted. The Corporation shall transfer the ownership of such lands to the Land Trust so that they may become part of its corpus and for said trust to exercise all the prerogatives related to such ownership for the benefit of the District, pursuant to the District’s Plan. Rolling and salvage easements in the District shall exclusively encumber the strips of land identified as Paseo del Caño Norte and Paseo del Caño Sur in the District’s Plan, as established in the Integrated Development Plan.
History —Sept. 24, 2004, No. 489, § 17; Aug. 14, 2013, No. 104, § 13.