The Department of Housing, with the advice of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, shall conduct the corresponding legal procedures to evaluate, recognize and, wherever necessary and convenient, to provide for the registration of the ownership rights of the residents of the communities of the District, not later than one year after this act is approved. The Department of Housing shall conduct a study on the legal situation of the rights attributable to all District residents whose dwellings are located within the lands defined as public domain in accordance with the delimitation required in §§ 5045 and 5046 of this title. This title search shall serve as the basis for establishing the procedures for the recognition of ownership rights of the families that shall be relocated as part of the implementation of the ENLACE Project, including the dredging and canalization project of the Canal and the implementation of the Land Use Plan and the Integrated Development Plan of the District.
History —Sept. 24, 2004, No. 489, § 18.