2001

The transportation or aggregates freight activity on highways for commercial and industrial purposes in Puerto Rico is hereby declared, in its totality, as a public interest activity, for the purposes of attaining and preserving the desirable equilibrium which must exist between the manpower engaged in such activity and the demand or need of the aggregates for commercial and industrial purposes in Puerto Rico. The principal objectives of this chapter are to guarantee: (1) the survival of those engaged in this activity as a means of livelihood; (2) the right of the private enterprise to engage in this activity, and (3) the rendering of transportation and aggregates freight services in a sufficient and satisfactory manner to satisfy the commercial and industrial needs in Puerto Rico, all this through a reasonable regulation of the activity concerned.\nHistory —May 16, 1972, No. 1, p. 333, § 1.