P.R. Laws tit. 23, § 11022f
The General Use Permit shall be the authorization required to enable the use of lands, buildings, and structures for specific purposes as provided in the Joint Permit Regulations adopted pursuant to §§ 9011 et seq. of this title. The General Use Permit shall include, in its determination, the following individual permits recognized under the Joint Permit Regulations adopted pursuant to §§ 9011 et seq. of this title:
(1) Use Permit.
(2) Fire Prevention Certification.
(3) Environmental Health Certificates, when applicable.
Autonomous municipalities opting out of the streamlined process provided under this subchapter shall only be empowered to grant the Use Permit under this General Permit process, since it is the only individual permit mentioned herein whose granting has been delegated thereto in accordance with §§ 4001 et seq. of Title 21. All other individual permits or certifications shall be presented before the Permit Management Office through the General Permit process as soon as the General Use Permit of the autonomous municipality has been obtained.
The applicable sanitary licenses provided in the General Environmental Health Regulations, Regulations No. 7655 of December 29, 2009, as amended, shall be required only to eligible businesses engaged in providing services such as food, public health, drinking water and ice, public pools, spas or hot tubs, funeral home, embalming, cremation, and cemetery, animal control facilities, pesticides and commercial poisons, among others, directly related to public health. Sanitary license applications shall be evaluated and issued within fifteen (15) days as of the filing thereof.
History —Jan. 10, 2013, No. 1, § 2.7.