2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-ONE - Municipalities (§§ 1-4 — 6756) › Subtitle 7 - Municipal Property Tax (§§ 5001 — 6756) › PART II (§§ 5801 — 5851-5854) › Chapter 253 - Municipal Revenues Collection Center (§§ 5801 — 5851-5854) › § 5804 - Governing Board—Integration

The Center shall be governed by a Governing Board composed of nine (9) members, seven (7) of which shall be mayors representing all the municipalities of Puerto Rico and the remaining two (2) members shall be the President of the Government Development Bank and the Commissioner of Municipal Affairs.
(a) Election of the mayors members of the Board.— Mayors members of the Board shall be elected, through secret vote, by all incumbent mayors as of election date in a duly convened assembly for those purposes by the Secretary of State. Four (4) of the mayors members of the Board must belong to the party winning the greatest number of municipalities in the general elections immediately preceding. The remaining three (3) members shall be selected from among the other mayors who have won municipalities in said general election, except that in the event that they are not sufficient to cover said three (3) positions, the party winning the greater number of municipalities shall elect the remaining members to complete the total of members of the Board.
(b) Election assembly.— The assembly to elect the mayors members of the Board must be held no later than thirty (30) days following the second Monday of the month of January following each general election.
Two-thirds (2 / 3) of the total of incumbent mayors shall constitute quorum as of the date the same is held, and the affirmative vote of the majority of those present in the assembly shall be required to declare the mayors members of the Board as elected.
The Secretary of State shall adopt the rules and procedures to appoint and elect the mayors members of the Board after consulting with the entities or organizations that represent the municipalities.
(c) Duration of the appointment.— The mayors elected as members of the Board shall hold office for a term of four (4) years and shall continue in office until their successors have been appointed and qualify. The mayors elected to the Board shall initially continue in office until their successors are appointed, pursuant to that which is provided in subsection (b) of this section. No mayor may be a member of the Board for more than two (2) consecutive terms.
(d) Vacancies.— Any vacancy occurring among the mayors members of the Board shall be filled within thirty (30) days following the effective date thereof. The new member shall hold office for the unexpired term of the substituted member. In order to fill said vacancy, only those mayors who belong to the same political party of the member who caused the vacancy shall be summoned and considered. Two-thirds (2 / 3) of the total incumbent mayors belonging to the same political party shall constitute quorum, and the affirmative vote of the majority of those present in the assembly shall be required to declare the mayor member of the Board as elected. When a mayor who is a member of the Board ceases in this office as mayor for any cause, the office filled in the Board shall automatically be rendered vacant.
—Aug. 30, 1991, No. 80, § 5; Sept. 1, 2000, No. 294, § 1.
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