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[CITE: 48USC910]

 
              TITLE 48--TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
 
                         CHAPTER 4--PUERTO RICO
 
     SUBCHAPTER VI--SLUM CLEARANCE AND URBAN REDEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
 
Sec. 910. Slum clearance and urban redevelopment and renewal 
        projects; powers of government
        
    The government of Puerto Rico acting through its legislature, may 
create a public corporate authority or authorities and may authorize 
such authority or authorities or any other public corporate authority or 
any municipal corporation or political subdivision, acting directly or 
through any officer or agency thereof or through a public corporate 
authority, to undertake slum clearance and urban redevelopment projects 
and urban renewal projects and to do all things, exercise any and all 
powers, and to assume and fulfill any and all obligations, duties, 
responsibilities, and requirements, including but not limited to those 
relating to planning and zoning, necessary or desirable for receiving 
Federal assistance under title I of the Housing Act of 1949 (Public Law 
171, Eighty-first Congress), as amended [42 U.S.C. 1450 et seq.], or any 
other law, except that public corporate authorities (as distinct from 
municipalities or political subdivisions) created or authorized to 
operate in accordance with this Act, as amended, shall not be given any 
power of taxation or any power to pledge the full faith and credit of 
the people of the Territory, or municipality, or political subdivision, 
as the case may be, for any loan whatever. The Legislature of Puerto 
Rico may, with respect to any public corporate authority or authorities 
empowered or which may be empowered to undertake slum clearance and 
urban redevelopment projects and urban renewal projects, provide for the 
appointment and terms of office of the members thereof, and for the 
powers of such authorities, including authority to accept whatever 
benefits the Federal Government may make available for slum clearance 
and urban redevelopment projects and urban renewal projects, and 
authority, notwithstanding any other Federal law, to borrow money and to 
issue notes, bonds, and other obligations of such character and 
maturity, with such security, and in such manner as the respective 
legislatures may provide. Such notes, bonds, and other obligations shall 
not be a debt of the United States, or of any Territory or municipal 
corporation or other political subdivision or agency thereof other than 
the public corporate authority which issued such notes, bonds, or 
obligations, nor constitute a debt, indebtedness, or the borrowing of 
money within the meaning of any limitation or restriction on the 
issuance of notes, bonds, or other obligations contained in any laws of 
the United States applicable to Puerto Rico, or to any municipal 
corporation or other political subdivision or agency thereof.

(July 18, 1950, ch. 466, title I, Sec. 101, 64 Stat. 344; Aug. 11, 1955, 
ch. 783, title I, Sec. 107(3), (7), (9), 69 Stat. 637, 638.)

                       References in Text

    The Housing Act of 1949 (Public Law 171, Eighty-first Congress), as 
amended, referred to in text, is act July 15, 1949, ch. 338, 63 Stat. 
413, as amended. Title I of the Housing Act of 1949 was classified 
generally to subchapter II (Sec. 1450 et seq.) of chapter 8A of Title 
42, The Public Health and Welfare, and was omitted from the Code 
pursuant to section 5316 of Title 42 which terminated the authority to 
make grants or loans under such title I after Jan. 1, 1975. For complete 
classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out 
under section 1441 of Title 42 and Tables.
    This Act, referred to in text, means act July 18, 1950, ch. 466, 64 
Stat. 344, as amended, known as the Territorial Enabling Act of 1950, 
which enacted sections 480 to 480b, 483a, 483b, 721 to 721b, 910 to 
910b, 1408 to 1408e of this title, amended sections 481 to 483 and 722 
of this title, and enacted provisions set out as notes under sections 
480, 481, and 722 of this title. For complete classification of this Act 
to the Code, see Tables.

                          Codification

    Section was not enacted as part of the Puerto Rican Federal 
Relations Act which comprises this chapter.
    Section 101 of act July 18, 1950, cited as a credit to this section, 
as applicable to Alaska and Hawaii, was classified to sections 480 and 
721 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1955--Act Aug. 11, 1955, included urban renewal projects, and 
inserted ``as amended'' after ``(Public Law 171, Eighty-first 
Congress)'' and after ``this Act''.


                        Urban Renewal Activities

    Financial assistance available for urban renewal projects, see 
section 107(1), (2) of act Aug. 11, 1955.
