P.R. Laws tit. 3, § 914-1a
Every agency, entity, body, office, department, instrumentality, and municipality or other government subdivision, including those entities listed in § 914-2 of this title, is hereby directed to comply with the preferential policy with regard to the purchase of hybrid vehicles or vehicles that operate on methods alternative to fossil fuels, such as electricity, solar energy, hydrogen, and gas combined.
To carry out this preferential purchasing policy, every agency, entity, body, office, department or instrumentality is hereby directed to adopt and comply with the norms and guidelines for the acquisition of such vehicles, which shall be established by the General Services Administration.
The norms and guidelines promulgated by the General Services Administration and by municipal legislatures with the advice of such agency, shall contain, without it being construed as a limitation, the adoption of specifications for clean motor vehicles, as such term is defined in Section 301 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992, P.L. 102-486, and that produce emissions that do not exceed the limits set under the National Law Emission Program, 40 C.F.R., Part 86.
Every agency, entity, body, office, department or instrumentality shall be required to adjust their procurement procedures to the norms and guidelines issued by the General Services Administration to ensure that by Fiscal Year 2010-2011, at least twenty-five percent (25%) of the acquired vehicles meets the specifications provided in this section, and that by fiscal year 2012-2013, at least fifty percent (50%) of the acquired vehicles meets such specifications.
In the case of municipalities, each municipal legislature shall approve an ordinance establishing the dates in which the twenty-five (25%) and fifty percent (50%) compliance shall be achieved, in accordance with the provisions of this section. In no case shall the dates established through municipal ordinance to attain the twenty-five percent (25%) compliance goal be later than Fiscal Year 2011-2012, nor the date set to achieve the fifty percent (50%) compliance goal be later than Fiscal Year 2013-2014.
The General Services Administration may grant a dispensation to acquire motor vehicles that do not meet the specifications set forth in this section, when as an exemption, the government agency, entity, body, office, department or instrumentality justifies and supports that, due to the nature and use of the vehicle, there are no suppliers in the local market capable of satisfying the demand thereof; or on any other basis as provided by the General Services Administration through regulations.
In the case of municipalities, municipal legislatures may grant through ordinance a dispensation to acquire vehicles that do not meet the specifications established in this section, under the same conditions provided for the General Services Administration.
History —July 2, 1997, No. 30, added as § 1-A on Mar. 26, 2010, No. 36, § 1.