Title 48Territories and Insular PossessionsRelease 119-73

§910a Authorization of loans, conveyances, etc., by government and municipalities

Title 48 › Chapter CHAPTER 4— - PUERTO RICO › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER VI— - SLUM CLEARANCE AND URBAN REDEVELOPMENT PROJECTS › § 910a

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Puerto Rico can help pay for slum clearance and urban renewal projects. It can give money, make loans, transfer land or other property, and provide buildings or services. The commonwealth can also allow cities and local governments to do the same and to give money, loans, property, or services to public agencies to support these projects.

Full Legal Text

Title 48, §910a

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The government of Puerto Rico may assist slum clearance and urban redevelopment projects and urban renewal projects through cash donations, loans, conveyances of real and personal property, facilities, and services, and otherwise, and may authorize municipalities or other political subdivisions to make cash donations, loans, conveyances of real and personal property to public corporate authorities and to take other action, including but not limited to the making available or the furnishing of facilities and services, in aid of slum clearance and urban redevelopment projects and urban renewal projects.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was not enacted as part of the Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act which comprises this chapter. section 102 of act July 18, 1950, cited as a credit to this section, as applicable to Alaska and Hawaii, was classified to section 480a and 721a of this title.

Amendments

1955—Act Aug. 11, 1955, included urban renewal proj­ects.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

48 U.S.C. § 910a

Title 48Territories and Insular Possessions

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73