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Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions

Chapter 4 — Puerto Rico

§ 913. Authorization of loans, conveyances, etc., by municipalities

Statutory text

The legislature may appropriate funds for and may make and authorize any municipality of Puerto Rico to make loans, donations, and conveyances of money or property to such authorities; may make and authorize any municipality of Puerto Rico to make available its facilities and services to such authorities and take other action in aid of slum clearance or low-rent housing; and may, without regard to any Federal Acts restricting the disposition of public property or lands in Puerto Rico, provide for the use by or disposal to such authorities of any public lands or other property held or controlled by the people of Puerto Rico, its municipalities, or other subdivisions.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 75–703 § 3 · 52 Stat. 1203

    Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 913

    (June 25, 1938, ch. 703, § 3, 52 Stat. 1203.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 25, 1938, ch. 703, § 3, 52 Stat. 1203.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. The legislature may appropriate funds for and may make and authorize any municipality of Puerto Rico to make loans, donations, and conveyances of money or property to such authorities; may make and authorize any municipality of Puerto Rico to make available its facilities and services to such authorities and take other action in aid of slum clearance or low-rent housing; and may, Use and disposal of public lands. without regard to any Federal Acts restricting the disposition of public property or lands in Puerto Rico, provide for the use by or disposal to such authorities of any public lands or other property held or controlled by the people of Puerto Rico, its municipalities, or other subdivisions.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act which comprises this chapter.

Credits

(June 25, 1938, ch. 703, § 3, 52 Stat. 1203.)

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