P.R. Laws tit. 22, § 173
In the discharge of the duties inherent to the operation, maintenance and conservation of the Toa Vaca Dam and Reservoir, the Aqueduct and Sewer Authority shall calculate annually the cost estimate for the aforesaid dam and reservoir. The Electric Power Authority, in its capacity of administrator of the Southern Coast Irrigation Service, shall contribute with the funds corresponding to said Southern Coast Irrigation Service to balance said cost estimate. The Aqueduct and Sewer Authority shall calculate and report on said cost estimate to the Electric Power Authority sufficiently in advance to the closing of operations of each fiscal year so as to permit that the annual budget of the Southern Coast Irrigation Service may include the necessary items to cover the payment of that part of the operation, maintenance and conservation cost of the Toa Vaca Dam and Reservoir pertaining to said service in the proportion that the waters may be used for irrigation and industrial and municipal uses (residential and commercial) during the period of time between the commencement date of the operation of the reservoir and the effective date of the eventual transfer of the property of the Toa Vaca Dam and Reservoir to the Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, as provided in § 174 of this title. Subsequent to the effective date of the transfer, the proportionate part of the expenses which shall be charged as pertaining to the Southern Coast Irrigation Service shall be fourteen twenty-thirds (14/23) of the whole budget for the operation, maintenance and conservation of the Toa Vaca Dam and Reservoir. The proportion to be assumed by the Aqueduct and Sewer Authority as operation, maintenance and conservation expenses which it estimates correspond to it shall be nine twenty-thirds (9/23) of said budget.
History —July 7, 1971, No. 11, p. 622, § 4.