- a)An Urban Tree Protection Plan, a technical instrument that must be submitted once the trees to be preserved on the property have been identified, establishing the measures to ensure the permanence of the existing trees, as well as the requirements and specifications necessary to mitigate the impacts arising from the construction works.
- b)An Afforestation Plan for Real Estate Development, in which the project design must be guided to include adequate spaces for the planting of trees, both in public areas and within the development. For such purposes, priority shall be given to the use of native or endemic species from the corresponding geographic zone, produced in accordance with the best practices of arboriculture, as established in the Public Management Plan for Urban Tree Stock, taking into account their future growth in height, trunk diameter, crown diameter, and root system. Exotic species may be used only when there is duly substantiated technical justification.
TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS TRANSITIONAL PROVISION I – Municipalities shall have a period of twelve months from the publication of this Act to approve the Municipal Urban Tree Stock Regulation and the Public Management Plan for Urban Tree Stock. They may prepare the regulation and the plan jointly with other municipalities that share common objectives, for which they may have the technical assistance of the Municipal Development and Advisory Institute (Instituto de Fomento y Asesoría Municipal, IFAM) and INVU.
TRANSITIONAL PROVISION II – Minae, in coordination with MOPT and the Ministry of Housing and Human Settlements (Ministerio de Vivienda y Asentamientos Humanos, Mivah), shall have a period of twelve months to regulate this Act.
TRANSITIONAL PROVISION III – For the purposes of aligning Setena's regulation with the provisions of this Act, a period of twelve months from the publication of this Act is granted.
TRANSITIONAL PROVISION IV – The definitions in this Act supersede all prior definitions that conflict with or contradict them, by virtue of the principle of speciality.
Enters into force upon publication.
Given at the Office of the Presidency of the Republic, San José, on the thirtieth day of the month of April of the year two thousand and twenty-six.
LET IT BE EXECUTED AND PUBLISHED.