Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 48 : Section 752


   
U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Section 752. Corporate real estate holdings

      No corporation shall be authorized to conduct the business of
    buying and selling real estate or be permitted to hold or own real
    estate except such as may be reasonably necessary to enable it to
    carry out the purposes for which it was created, and every
    corporation authorized after May 1, 1900, to engage in agriculture
    shall by its charter be restricted to the ownership and control of
    not to exceed five hundred acres of land; and this provision shall
    be held to prevent any member of a corporation engaged in
    agriculture from being in any wise interested in any other
    corporation engaged in agriculture. Corporations, however, may loan
    funds upon real estate security, and purchase real estate when
    necessary for the collection of loans, but they shall dispose of
    real estate so obtained within five years after receiving the
    title. Corporations not organized in Puerto Rico, and doing
    business therein, shall be bound by the provisions of this section
    so far as they are applicable.



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