P.R. Laws tit. 17, § 118
When by resolution of the municipal legislature of any municipality, it shall be found and declared that a certain urban zone of said municipality has sustained the ravages of a disaster (which has been declared a major disaster by the Governor) caused by flood, fire, hurricane, earthquake, storm, or other natural or man-made catastrophe (including destruction by war) the Housing Authority operating in said municipality is hereby authorized to plan, carry out and develop an urban renewal project for the benefit of said zone without the necessity of fulfilling the following requistes: (1) the requirements of §§ 103, 113, and 114 of this title to the effect that the renewal or redevelopment plan shall show that the area where a renewal or redevelopment project is to be developed is a slum or blighted area or an area in process of becoming blighted; (2) the requirements of § 114 of this title to the effect that the renewal plan shall be in harmony with the general plan for the community; and (3) the requirements of § 105 of this title to the effect that the redevelopment plan shall indicate the method for providing decent, safe and sanitary dwellings in a number substantially equal to the number of substandard dwellings to be cleared from said area, and for rentals within reach of the income of the groups to be displaced from such substandard dwellings; Provided, That said project may be developed upon the previous finding of the Puerto Rico Planning Board that the Authority has presented a plan for promoting to the utmost the providing of dwellings fit to meet the requirements of the families ousted or displaced by such catastrophe or by such renewal or rehabilitation activities.
In the preparation of an urban renewal plan with respect to a project developed or to be developed under the provisions of this section, the Authority shall give proper attention to the transfer or relocation of the dwellings outside of the area swept by flood or any other periodic catastrophe.
History —May 9, 1947, No. 97, p. 226, added as § 21 on June 17, 1957, No. 66, p. 154, § 2.