P.R. Laws tit. 21, § 859
For the purposes of this chapter, the words or phrases listed below shall have the meaning therein indicated, unless another meaning is clearly inferred from the context:
(a) Change of use.— Is any action that leads to a change in the recreational-sports purpose of the stadium for another, be it public or private, or to vary the actual use of the stadium so as to prevent the practice of baseball (and of basketball in the case of the Pachín Vicéns Auditorium). This does not include variations whose purpose is to broaden the type of sports that may be practiced or activities that may be held without impairment to those already indicated.
(b) Certification.— Is the attesting document of ownership that substitutes the public deed, by virtue of which the conditioned transfer of the right of ownership of the stadiums to the municipalities is conducted.
(c) Certification of registration.— Is the certification issued by the Property Registrar regarding what appears in the contents of the Registry (fees and expenses of the real property or registered right, the existence of any document submitted and pending qualification and any other matter included in the Register).
(d) Department.— Is the Sports and Recreation Department restructured by virtue of § 444a of Title 3, part of the law known as the “Sports and Recreation Department Organic Act”.
(e) Stadiums.— Are the following national sports facilities: the Paquito Montaner Park and the Juan Pachín Vicéns Auditorium of Ponce; the Idelfonso Solá Morales Park of Caguas; the Isidoro García Park of Mayagüez; and the Luis Rodríguez Olmo Park of Arecibo. This includes the land where the facility is located and any building therein found, excluding that which is provided in § 871 of this title.
(f) Municipalities.— Includes both the geographic demarcation as well as the juridical entity of the local government of the autonomous municipalities of Ponce, Caguas, Mayagüez and Arecibo.
(g) Municipalization.— Is the conditioned, orderly and free transfer of right of ownership of the stadiums to their respective municipalities, as defined in the present section.
(h) Ordinance.— Is any legislation duly approved within the municipal jurisdiction whose subject is of a general or specific nature and which has indefinite effectiveness. This includes the affirmative expression of the municipal legislature accepting the transfer ordered and provided by this chapter.
(i) Secretary.— Is the Secretary of the Sports and Recreation Department, created by virtue of § 444a of Title 3.
History —Sept. 30, 2004, No. 537, § 2.