P.R. Laws tit. 22, § 165
(a) The Authority is hereby empowered to impose and collect a fee or charge per unit from owners of urbanizations and multifamily buildings or buildings for institutional, industrial or commercial uses (including hotels and hospitals) for the connection to and use of the system.
(b) The units subject to the imposition and collection of said fee or charge shall be those connected to the system on and from the date this act takes effect, because they constitute new constructions, or enlargements or extensions of constructions already existing, or because they require new bigger connections.
(c) The Authority shall impose and collect said fee or charge up to the sum of one hundred dollars ($100) for each unit to be connected to the aqueducts system, and up to one hundred dollars ($100) for each unit to be connected to the sewer system, taking into consideration the additional charge which the system will have to bear because of the connection of the units of the urbanization or the building and the capacity of the system to which connected to absorb the additional charge.
(d) The payment or the bonding of the fee or charge, imposed by the Authority, as the latter may provide, shall be an indispensable requirement to authorize the construction and use of the units upon which the fee or charge is imposed by the Permit Officer attached to the Puerto Rico Planning Board.
(e) The owner of units who disagrees with the imposition or with the reasonability of the charge shall pay it or give a bond on it, and appeal therefrom to the Board of Construction and Subdivisions Appeals within 30 days after the payment or bonding, and there shall be followed insofar as applicable, the procedure established in § 26 of Act No. 213 of May 12, 1942, as amended. Said term of 30 days shall be of a jurisdictional character. The resolution of the Board may be reviewed by the Court of First Instance, San Juan Part, at the request of the appellant or the Authority in accordance with the procedure therein provided.
History —July 23, 1974, No. 170, Part 2, p. 4, § 2.