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Code · BILL · 114th Congress · S. 2676 (Introduced in Senate) — To provide for the adjustment of the debts of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and for other purposes. · Sec. 203

Sec. 203. Reservation of territorial power to control municipalities

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Subject to the limitations imposed by title III, this title does not limit or impair the power of a Territory to control, by legislation or otherwise, a municipality of or in the Territory in the exercise of the political or governmental powers of such municipality, including expenditures for such exercise, but— a Territory law prescribing a method of composition of indebtedness of such municipality may not bind any creditor that does not consent to such composition; and a judgment entered under such a law may not bind a creditor that does not consent to such composition.
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