P.R. Laws tit. 21, § 867

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§ 867. Rights and duties of the Department

The Department reserves the following rights and duties:

(a) The Department reserves the right to meet its obligation of supervising the municipalities so they, in turn, meet their obligation of providing administrative, maintenance, sanitation and beautification services.

(b) The Department reserves the right to establish recreational and sports programming and hold activities in the transferred stadiums without having to pay fees for their use. Said activities must be coordinated with the municipality at least forty-five (45) days in advance. The municipality shall not enforce this reserved right in those stadiums where the municipality is conducting recurrent, programmed and well-attended activities.

(c) The Department shall have the subsidiary obligation of ensuring and providing the maintenance of the stadiums that are left unattended by the municipalities. Should the Department find itself in need of providing such maintenance, the same shall be chargeable to the municipality.

(d) The Department reserves the right to fine the municipality that fails to comply with the obligations established in this chapter, to issue orders to do or not to do and to adopt any other remedy, pursuant to the provisions of its Organic Act, §§ 444 et seq. of Title 3.

History —Sept. 30, 2004, No. 537, § 10.