P.R. Laws tit. 22, § 371
Each acre of land included in the Permanent Irrigation District shall have a water allotment determined by the Secretary of Agriculture according to the information and recommendations provided by the Agricultural Experimental Station. Said water allotment shall be informed to the Authority and the landholders, however, the Secretary of Agriculture may change it according to needs of the land, but it shall not exceed four (4) acre-feet of water per acre per annum. Provided water is available, and if it is not harmful to the land in the judgment of the Authority, for which it shall follow the guidelines established by the Secretary of Agriculture, at the request of a landholder, water may be sold to him over and above the set allotment at prices determined by the Authority. The amount of water delivered during any fiscal year, adding the allotment and that which is sold, may not exceed eight (8) acre-feet per acre per annum; Provided, however, That if at any time after the Irrigation District is established permanently, the water supply at the sources that feed the canal system is insufficient to furnish to each acre in said District the amount of water allotted thereto, then the water available shall be proportionately distributed among the lands of the District. Any deficit in the delivery of water due to an insufficient supply thereof, or to cleaning or repair activities in the dams or canals, or to any other reason, may be covered by the Authority over the eleven (11) months following the month in which such deficit occurs.
The [supply] of water to the tracts of land included in the Irrigation District is for the benefit of each of the tracts of land comprising the same, and of the Irrigation District in general. The Authority is hereby empowered to regulate such supply of water when, due to weather conditions, any or all of the tracts of land may not require the partial or full use of the water allotted to them.
History —June 10, 1953, No. 65, p. 182, § 11; June 18, 1958, No. 46, p. 71; June 14, 1961, No. 55, p. 97; May 1, 1980, No. 28, p. 81, § 2, eff. July 1, 1980.