P.R. Laws tit. 23, § 311k
On request of the Administration, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico may acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or by any other lawful means, for the use and benefit of the Administration, in the manner provided for by this chapter and by the Commonwealth laws on condemnation, the title to any real property and the interests therein that may be necessary or convenient for its purposes. The Administration shall advance the necessary funds estimated as the value of the property or rights to be acquired. Any difference in value which may be decreed by the competent court may be paid from the public treasury, but the Administration shall be under obligation to reimburse said difference. After reimbursement in full is made, the title to said property shall be transferred to the Administration, upon order of the court to that effect. In those cases where the Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico should deem it necessary and convenient that the title to the property and rights so acquired be directly recorded in behalf of the Administration so as to speed up the fulfillment of the ends and purposes for which the same was created, he may so request from the court at any time within the condemnation proceedings, and the court shall so order. The power hereby conferred on the Governor shall not limit or restrain the authority of the Administration to institute itself the condemnation proceedings when it may deem it convenient.
History —May 16, 1962, No. 13, p. 11, § 12.