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The Office shall have the responsibility to implement the public policy set forth in this chapter. To attain it, the Office shall coordinate the government efforts for the social and economic development of the special communities and to obtain the following objectives:(a) Socio-economic strengthening of families;(b) organizational strengthening of the communities;(c) physical and environmental rehabilitation of the communities;(d) foster the citizen’s initiatives that are compatible with the public policy pursued in this chapter;(e) coordination and participation of the municipal governments as a fundamental component in the identification of special communities and their needs, in the drafting of strategic plans for community development and in the collaboration geared to the implementation of these plans ensuring that the public policy established in Section 2 of this Act is complied with so that in those cases whereby said municipal plans contemplate the expropriation of land and housing within the communities acknowledged as special according to this chapter, a joint resolution be required from the Legislature of Puerto Rico authorizing such an action; that this has been the

housing within the communities acknowledged as special according to this chapter, a joint resolution be required from the Legislature of Puerto Rico authorizing such an action; that this has been the object of study and consideration through public hearings held in both legislative bodies to which the concerned municipalities and municipal leaders have been invited and that said joint resolution shall certify that the Office for Socioeconomic Financing and Self-Financing has conducted a community consultation through which seventy-five percent (75%) of those who exercise their right to vote endorse the expropriations and that said consultation was also conducted according to the process established by said Office;(f) collaborate in coordinating the search for government or private funds to subsidize the initial establishment of an individual’s own business, and(g) adopt, in coordination with the Special Communities Council, the norms and regulations needed for its operation. History —Mar. 1, 2001, No. 1, § 4; Aug. 26, 2004, No. 232, § 2; Nov. 11, 2006, No. 245, § 1.