1.- The Ministry of Public Education is authorized to mortgage the following properties registered in its name: Farm "La Llovizna", with a total area of 16 hectares 99019.74 square meters, resulting from the union of two farms: the smaller one with an area of 7 hectares 6423.16 square meters, registered in the Public Registry in volume 1461, folio 492, number 128823, entry 13, and the larger farm with an area of 8 hectares 3867.52 square meters, registered in the Public Registry in volume 1680, folio 42, number 011518, entry 37, both located on Tornillal Street in San Jerónimo, second district, fourteenth canton, Moravia, province of San José; data according to the cadastral map S.J. 748340-88. The mortgage shall be made for the purpose of offering them as a mortgage guarantee for obtaining a loan to build a convention center for the use of said Ministry.
2.- The Costa Rican Electricity Institute (Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, ICE) is authorized to donate to the Costa Rican Institute of Tourism (Instituto Costarricense de Turismo, ICT) an area of approximately ten hectares of land, located at the Sangregado Dam in Lake Arenal; coordinates LATITUDE: between 2705 and 2720, LONGITUDE: between 4530 and 4540, sheet I.G.N. Tilarán, 3247 III. This land will be used in the construction of the project Arenal Lake Recreation and Multiple Services Park.
3.- The Education Board of the Filomena Blanco de Vista de Mar de Goicoechea School is authorized to sell the farms owned by it detailed below:
Volume Folio Number Entry Area M² A. 858 67 52764 6 10688.42 2817 278 7 B. 1125 477 92770 4 908.56 C. 1125 479 92772 4 908.56 D. 1125 481 92774 4 908.57 These lands will be sold exclusively for the construction of dwellings.
4.- The National Institute of Housing and Urbanism (Instituto Nacional de Vivienda y Urbanismo, INVU) is authorized to donate to the Asociación Cartaginesa de Atención de la Tercera Edad, a lot of 3,478.10 square meters, from its farm No. 3-009-044-000, registered in the district of Cartago.
5.- The National Institute of Housing and Urbanism is authorized to transfer to the Municipality of Coronado, at no cost, seven thousand five hundred square meters of the Vargas Farm, located in San Isidro. This land shall be designated for the following social organizations: Movimiento Familiar Cristiano, Day Center for the Elderly, and Public Library.
6.- The Institute of Rural Development (Instituto de Desarrollo Rural, INDER)(*) is authorized to transfer five manzanas of land to the Municipal Council of the district of Cervantes, from the lands that were the property of Mr. Alfonso Madriz Zamora, that is, of the Compañía Agrícola de Santiago. These lands are located six hundred meters west of the Catholic temple of the district of Cervantes, facing the National highway. Two manzanas shall be for the new cemetery of Cervantes and three for housing programs for people of limited economic resources.
(*) (Its name amended by Article 14 of Law No. 9036 of May 11, 2012, "Transforms the Institute of Agrarian Development (Instituto de Desarrollo Agrario, IDA) into the Institute of Rural Development (INDER) and Creates the Technical Secretariat for Rural Development") 7.- The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock is authorized to donate to the Municipality of Cañas the tractor (in poor condition) that has the following characteristics: brand Hinomoto BEST E 23, asset number 100012, series 21136.
8.-The Ministry of Justice and Grace is authorized to sell in whole or in part, based on the appraisal carried out by the Ministry of Finance, the farm registered in the name of the Dirección General de Adaptación Social, volume 645, folio 574, number 33308, entry 18. The money from the sale shall be deposited to the order of the Board of Construction, Installations, and Acquisitions of Goods of the aforementioned Directorate, in order to dedicate it to the purchase of another farm to replace the one authorized for sale, to build the necessary facilities to transfer the inmates held in the La Soledad Trust Center. Once the new farm is acquired and the new facilities are built, the transfer of the inmates shall proceed.
9.-The Ministry of Public Works and Transport is authorized to transfer, cede, or donate, to the Municipality of the canton of Tibás, the land located in Cinco Esquinas de Tibás, twenty-five meters north of the level crossing of the Ferrocarril al Atlántico, adjacent to the Rivera ravine, where the municipal depot is installed.
10.-The Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MOPT) is authorized to donate to the Colegio de Geólogos de Costa Rica, free of all types of liens, a piece of land located in the province of San José, for the purpose of it being used for the construction of its headquarters. The ministries and autonomous and semi-autonomous institutions are authorized to donate materials to bring the construction of said work to a successful conclusion.
(*) 11.-The Ministry of Public Works and Transport is authorized to donate to the Asociación de Desarrollo Integral de la Comunidad de Brasil de Santa Ana, a strip of land located on the north side of the Ciudad Colón radial road, three hundred or four hundred meters from the entrance to Brasil de Santa Ana, behind the church and the school of that community, for the construction of a community hall.
(*) ANNULLED by Resolution of the Constitutional Chamber No. 3259 at 9:57 hours on July first, nineteen ninety-four.
12.-The Municipality of Curridabat is authorized to donate the farm registered in volume 3113, folio 137, number 302452, entry 1, to the Asociación de Vivienda de Autogestión y Ayuda Mutua de Curridabat, legal ID No. 3-002-087412-30.
(*) 13.-The Municipality of Goicoechea is authorized to donate to the Housing Cooperative COOPECASA, for the construction of multi-family dwellings, the land located in the Zetillal development, fifth district, eighth canton, real folio No. 1134694, with an area of 8,474.13 square meters, registered in the National Registry under number SJ-586969-85.
(*) ANNULLED by Resolution of the Constitutional Chamber No. 554-97 at 14:57 hours on January 28, 1997.
14.-The Municipality of Goicoechea is authorized to transfer to the Ministry of the Interior and Police, the lot or land designated for parking marked with the letter A, situated in the Zetillal development, fifth district, eighth canton of the province of San José, boundaries north and south, remainder reserved in part, and in another, Alameda Membrillo; east, Las Ciruelas Street, and west, Los Mangos Street. It measures 1400.01 square meters 69 square decimeters. This land shall be used for the construction of surveillance posts for the Rural Assistance Guard and an annex office of CORTEL.
15.-The Executive Branch is authorized so that the Ministry of Public Education may carry out the exchange of the rights it has over immovable property of the Santa Marta and La Palma de Buenos Aires School, Puntarenas, which consist of two plots of land with a total area of 11,902 m², valued at ¢902,675 and constructions valued at ¢2,721,000, according to the Direct Taxation Appraisals Nos. 845-86 and 846-46.
The exchange shall be carried out with the Company Corporación de Desarrollo Piñero de Costa Rica, S.A. (PINDECO, S.A.), which shall deliver to the State a similar plot of land of 11,902 m², according to cadastral map P-688825-87, and ¢2,721,000 in cash, as payment for the existing constructions on the properties. This sum shall be deposited in the "Account for Deposits and Third-Party Funds, Ministry of Public Education, code 13-003, for the payment of various expenses in the improvement of the physical infrastructure," which shall be applied to the construction of the new school building where the two educational institutions shall be relocated and merged.
16.-The State is authorized to transfer the property registered in its name under real folio number 48.015000, located in the first district and canton of the province of San José, to the Centro Costarricense de Producción Cinematográfica. The deed shall be formalized before the State Notary Office, exempt from all types of duties, stamps, taxes, and payment of attorney fees.
17.-The Unión Cantonal de Asociaciones de Desarrollo Comunal del Cantón de San Carlos is authorized to purchase a microcomputer free of sales tax, which shall be donated to the Ministry of Planning and Economic Policy, for use by that Ministry in the Regional Directorate of the Huetar Norte Zone.
18.-The State is authorized, through the Ministry of Public Works and Transport or the Dirección General de Aviación Civil, to donate land to the Asociación Hogares Crea de Costa Rica, located in Alajuela, for the construction and installation of its headquarters.
19.-The Ministry of Justice is authorized to transfer, free of charge, to the Municipality of San Carlos, the facilities built in Ciudad Quesada, where the Social Adaptation Admission Unit of San Carlos is currently located, for them to be destined as a public library. The delivery of the building shall take place at the time the Ministry of Justice has built the new admission unit in the canton of San Carlos, on the lands donated by the Municipality of the canton.
20.-The Costa Rican Institute of Railways is authorized to donate to the Asociación Nacional de Tenderos y Abarroteros de Alajuela, the lands owned by it, located in Molinos and Monserrat de Alajuela, so that said association may build its grocery warehouse on them.
21.-The National Institute of Housing and Urbanism is authorized to donate lands owned by it, located in INVU Las Cañas de Alajuela, to the Asociación de Desarrollo Integral de la Comunidad de El INVU Las Cañas, to develop housing programs on them.
22.-Annuled. (This subsection annulled by resolution of the Constitutional Chamber No. 56-08, of January 09, 2008.)
23.-The Municipality of Vásquez de Coronado is authorized to purchase the lot of 1,710.29 square meters, registered in the district of San José, real folio number 1-322370-000, to build on it a comprehensive care center (centro de atención integral, CAI) in San Pedro. The price to be paid for the lot shall be that indicated by the Appraisal Department of the Direct Taxation.
24.-The Municipality of Oreamuno is authorized to donate the land where the Potrero Cerrado cemetery is currently located, to be administered by the Junta Administrativa de Potrero Cerrado.
25.-Public enterprises and State institutions are authorized to donate used vehicles to the Ministry of the Interior and Police, for use in the delegations of the Rural Assistance Guard. They may likewise make these donations to municipalities and cantonal community development unions.
26.-The National Sports Council is authorized to transfer to the Cantonal Sports Committee of San Pedro de Poás, the farm belonging to the Dirección General de Educación Física y Deportes, located in San Rafael de Poás, district 2 of canton 8 (Poás), province of Alajuela, registered in the district of Alajuela, volume 2472, folio 545, number 169252, entry 2, with the location, dimensions, and boundaries indicated in the Public Registry. These lands are destined for the construction of sports installations, a purpose which may not be altered wholly or partially.
27.-The Municipality of Poás is authorized to donate the farm registration 114377-000 registered in the Public Registry, microfilm section, roll 222, image 549, with a measurement of 6752.87 square decimeters, to the Asociación Pro Atención del Ciudadano Poaseño de la Tercera Edad, for it to build in that place a shelter for the elderly.
28.-The Municipality of Alajuela is authorized to use the resources from the Montecillos livestock market, during the periods 87, 88, and 89, for the acquisition of lands to serve as headquarters for the Universidad Estatal a Distancia.
29.-The Municipality of Atenas is authorized to donate to the Instituto Mixto de Ayuda Social, the lot of land acquired in Concepción de Atenas, which is registered under farm number 95606, volume 1204, folio 168, province of Alajuela, for the purpose of destining it to housing programs for people of limited economic resources in the canton.
30.-In order for the Municipality of the central canton of Cartago to proceed with registration before the Property Registry, authorization is granted to the Asociación Deportiva Club Sport Cartaginés to transfer the property destined for its administrative headquarters, which is land with constructions and a sports field, and which consists of two manzanas in the city of Cartago, each divided by First Avenue, with the first manzana bordering to the south and the second to the north, both located between 15th and 17th Streets, with Second Avenue being the northern boundary of the first manzana and Third Avenue the southern boundary of the second manzana. The land is registered in the Public Registry, district of Cartago, in several farms, with the following numbers: 1.267, 1.296, 5.132, 5.201, 14.222, 14.226, 19.286, and 19.934, located in the second district of the first canton of the province of Cartago. The property shall be transferred to the Municipality of Cartago, central canton, in order to proceed with the planned construction on it, of the so-called Independence Square.
In turn, the transfer is authorized, to the Temporalidades de la Arquidiócesis de San José, legal ID No. 3-010-045 148-25, of the property where the following facilities are built: Chapel of the Rectoría de María Auxiliadora, Pío XII Community Hall, and the complete buildings of the offices of said rectory. Proceed with the registration procedures before the Property Registry. The registration of the documents through which the transfers authorized by this law shall be carried out shall be exempt from the payment of all kinds of national and municipal fees, stamps, duties, and taxes.
31.-The Ministry of the Interior and Police is authorized to transfer the lot where the former GAR delegation in Guacimal de Puntarenas was located, to the Asociación de Desarrollo Integral de la Comunidad de Guacimal de Puntarenas. Said lot shall be used by the Association in the construction of two low-income dwellings.
32.-The National Institute of Housing and Urbanism is authorized to transfer, to the Temporalidades de la Iglesia Católica, the land where the Catholic church is being built in the community of Mora, fifth district, eighth canton, province of San José.
33.-The Asociación Interinstitucional de Trabajo y Promoción Social de Heredia, and the Fundación Esperanza, Paz y Progreso, shall transfer to the Liga de Municipalidades de Heredia, free of charge, the entirety of their assets, prior inventory and receipt by the Comptroller's Office. The building, the lands, the monies, and the balances of the budget items and transfers shall be distributed among the Empresa de Servicios Públicos de Heredia, the Federación de Asociaciones de Desarrollo, DINADECO, the IMAS, and the municipalities of the province.
34.-A lot of 2,500 square meters is removed from any public domain designation, which shall be segregated from the property owned by the Municipality of San José, registered in the district of San José, volume 3,042, folio 221, number 296,679, entry 2. This lot shall be donated to the Ministry of Health for the creation of a CEN-CINAI in the community of Lomas del Río de Bri Bri, in Rincón Grande de Pavas.
35.-The Municipality of Desamparados is authorized to donate to the Ministry of Public Security, the land with an area of 1,881 m², for the purpose of installing a Civil Guard police station in the canton of Desamparados. Said land is part of the farm registered in volume 3092, folio 145, entry 1, number 300076, with an area of 7,581 m², located in the Las Gravilias citadel, where the community hall is currently found.
36.-The Municipality of Corredores is authorized to transfer, to the Cámara de Ganaderos del Cantón de Corredores, the lands that were purchased from the Banana Company, for the installation of the livestock market, the fairground, and other works of community interest.
37.-The National Institute of Apprenticeship is authorized to donate to the Asociación Deportiva Asturias, legal ID No. 3-002- 0161864-37, the lot registered in the district of Puntarenas, folio 33, entry 1, volume 2795, number 36280, district of Puntarenas, block No. 65. On said property, this Association shall locate its sports headquarters.
38.-The Ministry of Public Works and Transport is authorized to donate the land owned by it registered in the district of San José, volume 2930, folio 91, number 288,755, entry 1, to the Federación Nacional de Cooperativas de Transporte (FENACOOTRA, R.L.), legal ID number 3-0041071030-27. Solely for this purpose, said transfer shall be exempt from the payment of direct and indirect taxes, municipal or national, as well as registration duties.
39.-The State is authorized to transfer, free of charge, the farms registered in the district of San José, volume 2464, folio 397, No. 253422, entry 1, and farm No. 274317, volume 2719, folio 579, entry 1, the first to the Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito de Empleados Ferroviarios y Portuarios (COOPEFEP) and the second to the Sindicato de Educadores Costarricenses (S.E.C.), to develop housing programs for families of limited economic resources. The State Notary Office shall make the respective transfers, free of all types of taxes and fees, stamps, duties, and professional fees.
40.-The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (M.A.G.) is authorized to donate to the Asociación de Desarrollo Integral de Puerto Viejo, legal ID 3-008-084013-11, the lot of land located in Puerto Viejo, canton 10, Sarapiquí, province of Heredia, with a total area of 1 Ha. 3284-23, volumes 1497-1687 AS 2-2, folios 162-527, No. 50026 - 54357.
41.-The State is authorized to transfer to the cooperatives established in the south of the country, the lands resulting from the negotiation between the Government of Costa Rica and the Banana Company. The cooperatives that shall benefit are: a) COOPALSUR, R.L., b) COOPEADELANTE, R.L., c) COOPROPALCA, R.L..
42.-The Municipality of Desamparados is authorized to donate its farm registered under real folio No. 1161797-000, located in the Dos Cercas development, Damas district, according to the following detail:
- a)Temporalidades de la Arquidiócesis de San José, 400 square meters, for construction of the Catholic temple.
- b)Ministry of the Interior and Police, 50 square meters, for the construction of the Rural Assistance Guard delegation.
- c)To the families living in precarious conditions on this property, for which it shall be the obligation of the Ministry of Housing and Human Settlements to attend to everything related to the housing solution at the National Institute of Housing and Urbanism and at the Instituto Mixto de Ayuda Social.