Section 2
SEC. 2. Definition and general powers of barrios.&mdashBarrios are units of municipalities or municipal districts in which they are situated. They are quasi-municipal corporations endowed with such powers as are herein provided for the performance of particular government functions, to be exercised by and through their respective barrio governments in conformity with law. All barrios existing at the time of the approval of this amendatory Act come under the provisions hereof including poblaciones which, on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and sixty-two, were already duly organized into one or more barrios or had already elected and organized their respective barrio councils: Provided, That in the latter case, such poblaciones are given a period of six months from and after the approval of this Amendatory Act within which to complete their organization into barrios, in accordance with section three hereof, otherwise they shall be excluded from the provisions of this Act. It shall be competent for them in their proper corporate name to sue and be sued, to contract and be contracted with and to acquire, hold and convey real and personal property for purposes herein specified, and generally to exercise the powers herein or otherwise conferred upon them by law.