# § 752. Corporate real estate holdings
May 1, 1900
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 , 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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**Source Credit**: (May 1, 1900, No. 23, § 3, 31 Stat. 716; Mar. 2, 1917, ch. 145, § 39, 39 Stat. 964; May 17, 1932, ch. 190, 47 Stat. 158; July 3, 1950, ch. 446, § 5(2), 64 Stat. 320.)
## Editorial Notes
### Codification
> “That all franchises, privileges or concessions granted under section thirty-two of said Act [
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Section is comprised of section 3 (less first sentence) of act . The first sentence of such section 3 was superseded by section 39 of act . Prior to repeal of such section 39 by act , the sentence read:
Section was not enacted as a part of the Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act which comprises this chapter.
## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
### Change of Name
“Puerto Rico” substituted in text for “Porto Rico” pursuant to act , which is classified to .
### Repeals
Section 5(2) of act , repealed section 39 of act , cited as a credit to this section, eff. . See Effective Date of Repeal note set out below.
### Effective Date of Repeal
Repeal of section 39 of act , effective , see note set out under .