---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 U.S.C. § 916"
title: "48"
title_heading: "Territories and Insular Possessions"
number: "916"
heading: "Ratification of previous legislation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/48/916"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Puerto Rico"
  - "Subchapter VII — Low Rent Housing Projects and Elimination of Sub-Standard Housing"
---

# §916. Ratification of previous legislation


All legislation heretofore enacted by the Legislature of Puerto Rico dealing with the subject matter of sections [911](/usc/48/911.md) to 916 of this title and not inconsistent herewith is ratified and confirmed.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1938, ch. 703, § 6, 52 Stat. 1203.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

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