2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 6 - Autonomous Municipalities (§§ 4001 — 4990-4990j) › Chapter 211 - Administrative Organization (§§ 4251 — 4258) › § 4253 - Administrative units—General duties of the directors

Without it being construed as a limitation, the directors of administrative units shall have the duties established below with respect thereto:
(a) Plan and organize the work and direct, coordinate and supervise the functions and activities that the administrative unit under their responsibility or direction must perform.
(b) Coordinate actions and operations of their respective administrative units with other municipal dependencies, and especially with those that operate in the same fields or areas of activity.
(c) Impart general technical and administrative instructions that shall govern the activities of the administrative unit in question.
(d) Establish control systems that will allow the verification of quantitative and qualitative compliance of the programs, projects and activities of the administrative unit.
(e) See that the legal and regulatory norms related to the matters under his/her direction are faithfully complied with, and study and resolve the various problems.
(f) Make available to the internal auditors, the external auditors and the auditors of the Comptroller’s Office, any books, files, registers, documents, reports and any other information that they request and is pertinent for the performance of their functions.
(g) Give advice and counsel to the Legislature in his/her fields of action.
(h) Cooperate with the Commissioner in the design of the fiscal organization and the uniform computerized accounting system and the procedures for payments, revenues and property of the municipality.
(i) Perform any needed and adequate efforts for the orderly delivery and transfer of all documents, books, and property in his/her custody after an inventory to such effects, in any case that he/she ceases in his/her function as the director of the administrative unit in question, and in every case that a change of administration occurs, as provided in § 4111 of this title.
(j) Render periodic reports to the mayor on the activities and operations of the administrative unit, and on the development and achievements of the programs, works, activities and operations specified in the plans and projections of the administrative unit in question.
(k) Render a report to the mayor who shall remit it to the Legislature to be read by the Secretary thereof in a regular session. Said report shall include the achievements in the development of the plans and programs, the projections of the administrative units and the areas or aspects that need to be bolstered to achieve said projections.
(l) Take and pass the courses of the Compulsory Training and Continuing Education Program, as established by the Office of the Commissioner of Municipal Affairs for the corresponding position or administrative unit. All Directors shall be notified as to their obligation to take the course and pass the same not later than 30 days after their appointments have been confirmed. Any Director who fails to comply with this requirement may be sanctioned pursuant to the provisions of § 4912 of this title, part of the “Autonomous Municipalities Act”.
History —Aug. 30, 1991, No. 81, § 6.003; Dec. 17, 1993, No. 130, § 2; Dec. 31, 1998, No. 343, § 2.