P.R. Laws tit. 22, § 378
The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico having made feasible the irrigation project by contributing approximately forty-three percent (43%) of the cost of that part of the Southwestern Puerto Rico Project which comprises the combined process of collecting, impounding, and conducting the waters for hydroelectric production and their subsequent use for supplying water and irrigating the lands included in the Irrigation District, through the enactment of Act No. 2, approved May 31, 1950, the waters of the Southwestern Puerto Rico Project shall, after fulfilling their function of producing electricity in the Hydroelectric Plants of the Project, be devoted to benefiting the Irrigation District, at no cost whatsoever by reason of operation and maintenance expenses and of reserves for replacement of the works of the part of the combined development of the Project, all of which expenses shall be chargeable to the hydroelectric output of said Project. Notwithstanding any provision of this subchapter, the Authority is hereby empowered to sell, subject to the terms and conditions that it may establish, water from the Irrigation System for domestic, water supply, industrial, or other purposes.
The Authority is likewise empowered to establish regulations for the sale or lease, for irrigation purposes, of water from the Irrigation System which is in excess of the water required by law in the lands of the Irrigation District.
The proceeds from the sale of these waters shall be covered into the “Operation Fund—Lajas Valley Irrigation System”, and the amount thereof shall be used in the estimates to reduce the annual assessments.
History —June 10, 1953, No. 65, p. 182, § 18.