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POLICE LAW OF RAILROADS OF PORTO RICO.

[Promulgated in the Island on the 17th of February, 1888.]

TITLE I.-REGULATIONS APPLICABLE TO PORTO RICO FOR THE PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC ROADS.

ARTICLE 1. The Laws and Regulations of the Administration as to highways are applicable to

1. The preservation of trenches, drains, walls, buildings, and other kinds of works.

2. The rights (servitudes) for the preservation of the roads charged on the adjoining cultivated lands.

3. The servitudes on these same lands as to laying out lines, constructions of all kinds, opening of ditches, free course of water, planting, pruning of trees, working of mines, lands, places for dumping refuse ore, quarries, and any other whatsoever. The zone to which these rights extend is 20 meters on each side of the railroad. 4. The prohibitions the object of which is to prevent all kinds of damage to the road.

5. Prohibiting the placing of hanging or projecting objects which may inconvenience or endanger persons or the road.

6. Prohibiting the establishment of deposits of materials, stones, earth, manure, products or any other thing which may impede free transit.

TITLE II.-REGULATIONS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF ROADS WHICH REFER ESPECIALLY TO RAILROADS.

ART. 2. Along the whole distance of the railroad neither the entry nor the grazing of cattle shall be allowed. If the railroad has to cross a highway where cattle pass, the railroad shall always cross without changing or stopping the progress of the trains, and in the manner provided for as a general rule for that crossing.

ART. 3. In the future, in a zone of 3 meters on each side of the railroad, only fencing walls shall be constructed, but no façades having openings or projections. This Regulation does not refer to buildings constructed before the promulgation of this Law, or the construction of a railroad which may be separated and maintained in the condition in which they are, but can not be rebuilt. If it be necessary to demolish or change a building for the benefit of a railroad, the proceedings shall be according to the provisions of Article 11 of this Law.

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