---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 U.S.C. § 911"
title: "48"
title_heading: "Territories and Insular Possessions"
number: "911"
heading: "Legislative authorization to create authorities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/48/911"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Puerto Rico"
  - "Subchapter VII — Low Rent Housing Projects and Elimination of Sub-Standard Housing"
---

# §911. Legislative authorization to create authorities


The Legislature of Puerto Rico may create public corporate authorities to undertake slum clearance and projects to provide dwelling accommodations for families of low income.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1938, ch. 703, § 1, 52 Stat. 1203.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act which comprises this chapter.