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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART IX - Economic Development II (§§ 11001 — 11273) › Chapter 261 - Puerto Rico Creative Industries Promotion Act (§§ 11261 — 11273) › § 11268 - Creative industries and the public and private education system

In order to guarantee an ongoing supply of creative talent and to stimulate creativity and innovation among the students of the public education system of the Island, the Puerto Rico Creative Industries Advisory Council shall draft measures to foster the connection between creativity, education, and economic development in an effort to encourage young people’s creative potential. To such effects, the Puerto Rico Creative Industries Advisory Council shall join efforts with the Department of Education, the School of Plastic Arts, and the Conservatory of Music, as well as with private educational entities.
History —Oct. 13, 2014, No. 173, § 10.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART IX - Economic Development II (§§ 11001 — 11273) › Chapter 261 - Puerto Rico Creative Industries Promotion Act (§§ 11261 — 11273) › § 11269 - Annual convention of creative industries

The Trade and Export Company and the Advisory Council, in coordination with the Department of Economic Development and Commerce, and the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture shall hold a creative industries annual convention for the promotion thereof and to foster networking among creative individuals and teams in Puerto Rico and internationally.
History —Oct. 13, 2014, No. 173, § 11.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART IX - Economic Development II (§§ 11001 — 11273) › Chapter 261 - Puerto Rico Creative Industries Promotion Act (§§ 11261 — 11273) › § 11270 - International promotion of Puerto Rico creative industries

The Trade and Export Company is hereby directed to adopt strategies and assist in the promotion, at the international level, of creative industries subject to this chapter and duly registered in the Creative Industries Registry created herein.
History —Oct. 13, 2014, No. 173, § 12.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART IX - Economic Development II (§§ 11001 — 11273) › Chapter 261 - Puerto Rico Creative Industries Promotion Act (§§ 11261 — 11273) › § 11271 - Rulemaking authority

The Puerto Rico Trade and Export Company shall adopt regulations as are necessary to achieve the purposes of this chapter, in accordance with §§ 2101 et seq. of Title 3, known as the “Uniform Administrative Procedures Act of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico”, within ninety (90) days after the effective date of this act. The absence of any regulations provided for in this Act shall not prevent the application thereof.
History —Oct. 13, 2014, No. 173, § 14.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART IX - Economic Development II (§§ 11001 — 11273) › Chapter 261 - Puerto Rico Creative Industries Promotion Act (§§ 11261 — 11273) › § 11272 - Eligibility for benefits under §§ 11081 et seq. of this title, known as the “Micro, Small-, and Medium-sized Business Promotion Act”

Creative Industries certified under this chapter may avail themselves of the fast-track process for issuing use permits, government procurement reserves, preferential rent program, preferred application process to access reserves created to fund proposals submitted by micro, small-, and medium-sized businesses from the Employment and Training Opportunities Development Fund and other additional general incentives in accordance with the eligibility criteria and requirements established in §§ 11081 et seq. of this title, known as the “Micro, Small-, and Medium-sized Business Promotion Act”.
History —Oct. 13, 2014, No. 173, § 18.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-THREE - Public Planning and Development (§§ 1 — 11273) › PART IX - Economic Development II (§§ 11001 — 11273) › Chapter 261 - Puerto Rico Creative Industries Promotion Act (§§ 11261 — 11273) › § 11273 - Eligibility for benefits under §§ 11111 et seq. of this title, known as the “SMBs Job Creation and Retention Incentive Act”

Creative industries certified under this chapter may avail themselves of the benefits and incentives available under §§ 11111 et seq. of this title upon execution of an agreement between the Eligible SMBs with the Puerto Rico Trade and Export Company (PRTEC).
History —Oct. 13, 2014, No. 173, § 19.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 1 - General and District Hospitals (§§ 1 — 58) › § 2 - Service contracts; rules and regulations

For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this section, the Secretary of Health is hereby authorized to prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary, and he is hereby authorized to enter into service contracts with public institutions whenever he deems it necessary.
History —Apr. 30, 1946, No. 504, p. 1518, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 1 - General and District Hospitals (§§ 1 — 58) › § 4 - District hospitals—Rules for admission; fund from pay-patient quotas

The admission and discharge of patients shall be governed by the rules and regulations that may be made by the Secretary of Health and upon order of the medical authorities of the hospital, to whom shall be transmitted, in the manner directed by the Secretary of Health, the petitions for admission pursuant to § 3 of this title. The hospital shall attend such cases as may be satisfactorily benefited by reason of its facilities for diagnosis and treatment at its disposal; but cases of mental diseases that affect or may affect the good operation of the hospital shall not be admitted; Provided, That quotas from pay-patients shall be covered into the General Fund of the Commonwealth Treasury.
History —Apr. 30, 1928, No. 56, p. 408, § 2; May 18, 1959, No. 11, p. 63; June 9, 1961, No. 25, p. 57, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 1 - General and District Hospitals (§§ 1 — 58) › § 5 - District hospitals—Expenses for transportation of patients

Expenses for the transportation of patients shall be a charge on the municipalities.
History —Apr. 30, 1928, No. 56, p. 408, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 1 - General and District Hospitals (§§ 1 — 58) › § 9 - District hospitals—Isolation pavilions; appropriation; federal aid

The Secretary of Health is authorized to condition in the district hospitals, isolation pavilions for contagious diseases, and for such purpose, the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000), or such part thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated from any funds in the Commonwealth Treasury not otherwise appropriated; the Secretary of Health is also authorized to apply for financial aid from the proper federal agency, in order to carry out the conditioning or construction of these pavilions.
History —May 15, 1943, No. 179, p. 648, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 1 - General and District Hospitals (§§ 1 — 58) › § 48a - Land for medico-hospital installations—Gratuitous assignment in usufruct

The Secretary of Transportation and Public Works is hereby authorized to assign gratuitously in usufruct to nonprofit organizations or associations any parcel of land within the lands already acquired by the Commonwealth for the construction of medico-hospital installations, on condition that such parcel be devoted to the construction and operation of diagnostic, treatment, rehabilitation, and medical research centers, or to nursing homes or hospitals, or to such other facility as the Secretary of Health shall deem should form a part of the medico-hospital installations. The Secretary of Transportation and Public Works is, furthermore, authorized to convey any parcel, within the above-mentioned lands, to the municipalities or to any agencies or instrumentalities of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or of the Government of the United States of America, entirely or partly devoted to medical or odontological education or to the development and preservation of public health.
History —June 25, 1962, No. 94, p. 246, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 1 - General and District Hospitals (§§ 1 — 58) › § 48b - Land for medico-hospital installations—Terms and conditions

The Secretary of Transportation and Public Works of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall determine, subject to the limitations herein set forth, the requirements or conditions which shall govern such assignment of usufruct.
The Secretary of Transportation and Public Works may, in agreement with the usufructuary and for the effectiveness of the usufruct, modify the terms of the grant, in accordance with the provisions of §§ 48a—48g of this title.
History —June 25, 1962, No. 94, p. 246, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 1 - General and District Hospitals (§§ 1 — 58) › § 48c - Land for medico-hospital installations—Duration and termination of usufruct

The assignment in usufruct shall be made without subjection to the provisions of § 1573 of Title 31 for an unlimited term and shall terminate only if the usufructuary fails to devote and use the land the object of the usufruct for the purposes and according to the terms stated in the instrument constituting the usufruct.
History —June 25, 1962, No. 94, p. 246, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 1 - General and District Hospitals (§§ 1 — 58) › § 48d - Land for medico-hospital installations—Ownership of improvements upon termination of usufruct

All assignments of land in usufruct shall be made on condition that the buildings and other improvements created or carried out on the land in usufruct shall remain the property of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico upon termination of the usufruct without any right to compensation accruing in such case for the value of said buildings or improvements.
History —June 25, 1962, No. 94, p. 246, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 1 - General and District Hospitals (§§ 1 — 58) › § 48e - Land for medico-hospital installations—Federal assistance

Whenever the usufructuary shall wish to benefit from any type of assistance granted by the Government of the United States, any condition imposed upon the usufructuary under the express provisions or by authority of §§ 48a—48g of this title shall be subject to or modified, as the case may be, in accordance with the provisions of the federal legislation and regulations authorizing said assistance, all without prejudice to the provisions of §§ 48c and 48d of this title.
History —June 25, 1962, No. 94, p. 246, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 1 - General and District Hospitals (§§ 1 — 58) › § 48f - Land for medico-hospital installations—Duties of Secretary of Health

The Secretary of Health of the Commonwealth shall determine the entities to which the usufruct may be granted, or the lands conveyed, pursuant to § 48a of this title, and shall establish the conditions and medico-technical requisites which, in addition and subject to the laws and regulations in force, are to govern the lotting of the land, the construction of the buildings and the operation of the facilities constructed on the lands in usufruct or conveyed.
History —June 25, 1962, No. 94, p. 246, § 6.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 1 - General and District Hospitals (§§ 1 — 58) › § 48g - Land for medico-hospital installations—Tax exemption

The lands granted in usufruct, the buildings and other real property constructed or put on the lands by the usufructuary shall be property-tax exempt for the duration of the usufruct.
History —June 25, 1962, No. 94, p. 246, § 7.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 2 - Integrated System of Medical-Hospital Assistance (§§ 61 — 61k) › § 61 - Authorization

The Secretary of Health is hereby authorized to use the hospitals, medical centers, health centers, rest homes, dispensaries, clinics and other health institutions owned by the Commonwealth and its municipalities, to provide medical-hospital services in the same quantity, variety and quality for every person, regardless of his financial condition, race, color, origin, and religious or political belief.
The Secretary of Health shall establish, with the advice of the Health Coordination Council, the Director of Management and Budget, and in agreement with the municipal governments, the administrative procedures and systems needed to:
(a) Determine and fix the reasonable charges for the medical-hospital services in all the health institutions owned by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and its municipalities.
(b) The partial or total payment, as required in each case, of the reasonable charge, as fixed for each health institution, for the medical-hospital services provided to each person or family whose annual income and other resources are greater than those established by the Secretaries of Health and of the Family, to determine whether persons or families are eligible to request and receive these services chargeable to public funds, or who have some kind of health insurance.
(c) Enter into agreements with labor organizations or unions to render medical-hospital services to workers affiliated to said organizations or unions at health institutions owned by the Commonwealth, and to charge reasonable fees for said services.
History —June 21, 1969, No. 56, p. 100, § 1; June 28, 1978, No. 82, p. 262, § 1; June 13, 1980, No. 132, p. 491, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 2 - Integrated System of Medical-Hospital Assistance (§§ 61 — 61k) › § 61a - Certification of eligibility

The Secretary of Health, with the advice of the Secretary of the Family, shall establish similar standards of application for every person or family to determine and promulgate the grade of annual income and other economic resources under which a person or family will be certified as eligible to request and receive medical-hospital assistance within and without the health institutions of the Commonwealth and its municipalities, chargeable to public funds. This eligibility certificate shall be transacted through swift and simple administrative procedures, which might best protect the interest of the requesting person or family. An annual review shall be made of the resources under which every person or family obtains the certificate.
History —June 21, 1969, No. 56, p. 100, § 2, eff. July 1, 1969.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 2 - Integrated System of Medical-Hospital Assistance (§§ 61 — 61k) › § 61b - Medical auditorship

The Secretary of Health, with the advice of the Health Coordination Council, shall establish a medical auditing system which will permit the annual evaluation of the quantity, diversity, utilization and quality of medico-hospital assistance services offered to the public in each health institution.
History —June 21, 1969, No. 56, p. 100, § 3; June 28, 1978, No. 82, p. 262, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 2 - Integrated System of Medical-Hospital Assistance (§§ 61 — 61k) › § 61c - Collecting and use of funds

The Secretary of Health in consultation with the Director of the Office of the Management and Budget and the Secretary of the Treasury shall implement the administrative procedures for the accounting, deposit and use of the funds collected in each health institution owned by the Commonwealth and its municipalities, by collecting the reasonable charges for the services offered to persons or families classified under § 61a of this title, as not eligible to receive these services chargeable to public funds. The funds collected in those diagnosis and treatment centers or in health centers administered through agreements entered into by the Secretary of Health and the municipal government shall be covered into the accounts corresponding to the municipal governments and to the Health Fund in proportion to the contribution of funds made by each one for the administration of the facility in question. The funds collected according to the provisions of §§ 61—61k of this title in other health institutions shall be covered into the Health Fund created under the provisions of §§ 337—337m of this title.
The funds collected under this section that are covered into the Health Fund shall be used, subject to the priorities that the Secretary of Health may establish, for the improvement of the salaries of the personnel and of the health services and the facilities in which they have been collected.
The Secretary may contract with the municipalities for their contribution to the payment of the services given to the residents of the municipality in the Commonwealth hospitals as well as in private hospitals; Provided, That in the case of private hospitals, the payment shall be made according to the costs of the audited hospital services. A proportional fraction of the sums collected within their territorial limits for services given in hospitals owned by the Commonwealth shall be accredited as a contribution of the municipality to the users who were able to pay for all or part of the service.
History —June 21, 1969, No. 56, p. 100, § 4; June 28, 1978, No. 82, p. 262, § 2; July 2, 1985, No. 52, p. 181, § 22.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 2 - Integrated System of Medical-Hospital Assistance (§§ 61 — 61k) › § 61d - Payment of services—Plans and insurance companies

The medico-hospital services insurance plans and insurance companies engaged in the sale of medico-hospital insurance in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the unions that enter into agreements with the Secretary of Health to avail themselves of the programs established under § 61(c) of this title, shall be bound to pay to the Commonwealth and to its municipalities, in accordance with the procedures established by the Secretary of Health, the reasonable cost of the services rendered to its insured persons in health institutions owned by the Commonwealth and its municipalities.
History —June 21, 1969, No. 56, p. 100, § 5; June 13, 1980, No. 132, p. 491, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 2 - Integrated System of Medical-Hospital Assistance (§§ 61 — 61k) › § 61e - Payment of services—State Insurance Fund, instrumentalities and municipalities

The State Insurance Fund, as well as any other instrumentality of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and its municipalities, who have established or may establish health service plans for their employees, shall be bound to pay the reasonable charge of the medical-hospital assistance services rendered to their employees in health institutions, the property of the Commonwealth and its municipalities.
History —June 21, 1969, No. 56, p. 100, § 6, eff. July 1, 1969.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 2 - Integrated System of Medical-Hospital Assistance (§§ 61 — 61k) › § 61f - Regulations

The Secretary of Health is hereby empowered to establish the necessary standards and regulations for the administration and operation of the hospitals and health centers, the property of the Commonwealth. He may, through agreements, delegate the operation and administration of the hospitals and health centers, the property of the Commonwealth, to nonprofit associations, corporations of professionals and other groups interested in offering health services to the community, and may, also, grant free of charge or lease the use of facilities and services to physicians and dentists; provided, that he establishes regulation governing such grants or leases and provided said regulation establishes that grants and leases shall only be executed when they are in the best interest of the rendering of health services to persons needing such services in the community.
History —June 21, 1969, No. 56, p. 100, § 7; July 23, 1974, No. 232, Part 2, p. 205, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 2 - Integrated System of Medical-Hospital Assistance (§§ 61 — 61k) › § 61g - Charge for medical and dental services

Every physician and every dentist authorized to practice his profession in Puerto Rico, and in the private practice thereof, may charge a reasonable fee for his professional services rendered to patients in health institutions owned by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, its municipalities and instrumentalities, when said patients are ineligible to receive those services chargeable to the funds of the Commonwealth or the municipality. These professionals may also charge the labor organizations that avail themselves of the programs established under § 61c of this title for services rendered to said workers in such institutions. The fees for these services shall be fixed according to the regulations established for such purposes by the Secretary of Health. In fixing the reasonable fees, due consideration shall be given to the current and prevailing prices in the community and the best interests of the patients.
Services rendered to indigent patients shall be paid by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, its municipalities and instrumentalities. The charge for these services shall be subject to the regulations that the Secretary of Health shall establish for such purpose. The fees for these professional services shall not be higher than the reasonable charges prevailing, established under Part “B” of Title XVIII of the Social Security Act of the United States.
The physicians and dentists who belong to the medical staffs of health institutions owned by the Commonwealth, its municipalities and instrumentalities, may render such services, provided they accept the corresponding appointment, under the regulations promulgated to such effects by the Secretary of Health, which define the duties, responsibilities and rights of these professionals as members of said medical staffs, or, when they render said services to eligible patients, they do so as part of the Integral Medical System that the Department of Health shall establish pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
History —June 21, 1969, No. 56, p. 100, § 8; July 23, 1974, No. 232, Part 2, p. 205, § 2; June 28, 1978, No. 82, p. 262, § 2; June 13, 1980, No. 132, p. 491, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 2 - Integrated System of Medical-Hospital Assistance (§§ 61 — 61k) › § 61h - Rendering of services—Agreements

The Secretary of Health is hereby authorized to enter into agreements with physicians and dentists in the private service of their profession, with hospitals, medical centers, health centers, health homes, dispensaries, clinics, pharmaceutical service agencies and other private health institutions, so that they may offer medico-hospital assistance to persons or families certified as eligible to receive said assistance chargeable to public funds as herein provided.
History —June 21, 1969, No. 56, p. 100, § 9, eff. July 1, 1969.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 2 - Integrated System of Medical-Hospital Assistance (§§ 61 — 61k) › § 61i - Rendering of services—Equality

The medico-hospital assistance services authorized under § 61h of this title shall be offered in equal conditions and shall be of the same quality as those offered to private patients by persons or institutions which may enter into agreements with the Secretary of Health.
History —June 21, 1969, No. 56, p. 100, § 10, eff. July 1, 1969.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 2 - Integrated System of Medical-Hospital Assistance (§§ 61 — 61k) › § 61j - Rendering of services—Requirements

Every person or institution who enters into an agreement with the Secretary of Health to offer and render medico-hospital assistance services to persons or families eligible to receive them, chargeable to public funds of the Commonwealth and its municipalities, shall comply with the following requirements:
(a) Shall establish an internal system of fiscal auditorship which permits the Secretary of Health or his representative to verify the active cost of the medico-hospital assistance services to be offered to persons or families eligible to receive such, chargeable to public funds of the Commonwealth and its municipalities.
(b) Shall establish an internal system of medical auditorship, acceptable to the Secretary of Health, and which permits him or his representative to verify, at least once every year, the quantity, variety, duration, utilization and quality of the medico-hospital assistance services rendered to persons or families eligible to receive them chargeable to public funds of the Commonwealth and its municipalities.
(c) He shall annually submit to the Secretary of Health the reports as may be requested in regard to his services and he pledges himself not to request additional payments from his patients for services rendered chargeable to public funds.
(d) He pledges himself to reclaim from insurance plans of medico-hospital assistance services, the reasonable charge of the services covered by the policy of the person insured with these plans when said insured person is also eligible to receive the services chargeable to public funds of the Commonwealth and its municipalities. In these cases, the Secretary of Health shall be solely responsible for paying that portion of the reasonable charge of the services not covered by the policy of the insured.
History —June 21, 1969, No. 56, p. 100, § 11, eff. July 1, 1969.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 2 - Integrated System of Medical-Hospital Assistance (§§ 61 — 61k) › § 61k - Stages

The Secretary of Health is hereby authorized to develop the system herein provided by stages. These stages may be on the basis of population or regional groups or by services, according to his best judgment, in a final or an experimental manner.
History —June 21, 1969, No. 56, p. 100, § 12; July 23, 1974, No. 232, Part 2, p. 205, § 2; June 28, 1978, No. 82, p. 262, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 2A - Services to Private or Public Entities (§§ 62 — 62c) › § 62 - Laundry, meals, laboratory and cleaning services to private or public entities

The Secretary of Health is hereby authorized to provide those services he deems necessary such as laundry, meals, laboratory and cleaning to private or public entities offering public health protection services which are located within the premises of the institutions under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health, and to charge for such services.
History —June 5, 1973, No. 107, p. 448, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 2A - Services to Private or Public Entities (§§ 62 — 62c) › § 62a - Services to individuals or private persons, charge

The Secretary of Health is hereby authorized to provide to individuals or private persons any other service he deems proper and to charge for them.
History —June 5, 1973, No. 107, p. 448, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 2A - Services to Private or Public Entities (§§ 62 — 62c) › § 62b - Cost of services

The cost of the services authorized to be provided by this chapter shall be fixed by the Secretary of Health, after taking into consideration the usual and actual costs in the community.
History —June 5, 1973, No. 107, p. 448, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 2A - Services to Private or Public Entities (§§ 62 — 62c) › § 62c - Deposit of funds

The funds to be collected for providing the services authorized by this chapter shall be deposited in a fund of Industrial Capital (Rotating Fund) to be established in the books of the Secretary of the Treasury.
History —June 5, 1973, No. 107, p. 448, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 3 - Health Centers and Rural Dispensaries (§§ 71 — 80) › § 74a - Municipal health, treatment and diagnosis centers—Agreements with Secretary

The Secretary of Health is hereby authorized and directed to negotiate and enter into agreements with those municipal governments that so request it, and that prove to the satisfaction of the Secretary of Health their aptitude and economic capacity needed to directly administer and operate the diagnosis and treatment center or the health center that both parties are currently administering and operating jointly, or those that it is interested in operating in the future. Through said agreements the Secretary shall delegate and confer such responsibility on those municipalities.
History —July 2, 1985, No. 52, p. 181, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 3 - Health Centers and Rural Dispensaries (§§ 71 — 80) › § 74b - Municipal health, treatment and diagnosis centers—Audits and evaluation; termination of agreements; regulations

The health services that by delegation of the Department of Health and in accordance with the provisions of §§ 74a—74u of this title, are directly administered and operated by the municipal governments shall be subject to auditing and evaluation by the Department as to their quality, administrative and operational efficiency, and their economic and financial aspects.
The Department reserves the right to terminate any of the agreements granted under §§ 74a—74u of this title when the audits conducted by virtue of this section and the regulations of §§ 74a—74u of this title show that the quality of the services rendered, and that of the operational and financial phase is below the expected and contracted levels. The Secretary of Health shall provide in the regulations the due procedure to notify the mayor of the municipality of its decision to terminate the agreement and to hear what he wishes to allege.
History —July 2, 1985, No. 52, p. 181, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 3 - Health Centers and Rural Dispensaries (§§ 71 — 80) › § 74c - Municipal health, treatment and diagnosis centers—Cost determination; work plan; annual report

The Secretary of Health and the mayor of the municipality shall jointly determine the cost of the organization, administration and operation of each facility during the process of negotiating the agreement. On the grounds of that determination, the two officials shall jointly create a work plan in which the objectives and goals for the corresponding fiscal year and the resources needed to achieve them are established.
Each year the mayor shall submit to the Secretary of Health a detailed report on the operation of the facility, the services rendered, the achievements in terms of the objectives and goals established in the work plan and the cost of the operation during the year. Together with the report, the mayor shall submit a work plan and budget for the following fiscal year for the purpose of consulting and receiving the consent of the Secretary of Health with respect to the contribution to be made by the Department of Health. The Department shall study and revise the work plan and budget and determine whether it meets the conditions and terms of the agreement, whether it is in harmony with the standards and procedures established pursuant to §§ 74a—74u of this title and whether it is feasible taking into consideration the resources of the Department of Health. This working plan and budget shall become a part of the agreement to be granted and shall be used as basic reference to determine its renewal.
History —July 2, 1985, No. 52, p. 181, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 3 - Health Centers and Rural Dispensaries (§§ 71 — 80) › § 74d - Municipal health, treatment and diagnosis centers—Contributions

The Department of Health shall contribute a portion of the economic resources required by the work plan and budget submitted by the mayor and approved by the Secretary. The per capita amount which corresponds to the population of Puerto Rico shall be determined from the resources available to cover the cost of the primary medical services.
In those cases in which the municipalities wish to maintain the joint administration with the Department, as it is being done at present, the Department shall make a basic contribution no greater than the contribution that is currently being granted to the municipality in question for the rendering of the services.
In the cases of the municipalities with which contracts are entered under the terms of §§ 74a—74u of this title, the Secretary of Health is empowered to provide a contribution of up to one hundred percent (100%) of the per capita resources available when said municipality assumes full responsibility for the primary medical services of its population.
History —July 2, 1985, No. 52, p. 181, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 3 - Health Centers and Rural Dispensaries (§§ 71 — 80) › § 74e - Municipal health, treatment and diagnosis centers—Obligation of the Department

The Department shall pay for the services rendered, but shall never exceed the contribution agreed on in § 74d of this title and in accordance with the work plan and budget submitted by the mayor and approved by the Secretary of Health.
History —July 2, 1985, No. 52, p. 181, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 3 - Health Centers and Rural Dispensaries (§§ 71 — 80) › § 74f - Municipal health, treatment and diagnosis centers—Funds recovered from solvent patients

The funds recovered by the facility from solvent persons shall be distributed in proportion to the sum contributed by the municipality and the Department according to the provisions of §§ 74a—74u of this title by transferring to the Department the funds corresponding to it. The funds that correspond to the municipalities shall be used solely and exclusively for the operation of the facility including the improvement of the salaries and working conditions of the employees.
The municipal government shall open a special account for these purposes to be used solely and exclusively for the operation of the facilities as it is established herein.
History —July 2, 1985, No. 52, p. 181, § 6.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 3 - Health Centers and Rural Dispensaries (§§ 71 — 80) › § 74g - Municipal health, treatment and diagnosis centers—Personnel; transfers; vested rights

To carry out the purposes of §§ 74a—74u of this title, the Department may transfer its personnel to the municipalities and may also transfer the regular vacation and sick leave that said personnel has accumulated, subject to the applicable legal provisions. In those cases in which the agreement is terminated or is not renewed, the Department is not bound to absorb the employees of the municipality in question.
The transfer of personnel made in accordance with the provisions of §§ 74a—74u of this title shall not impair, reduce or affect the rights, privileges and prerogatives those officials and employees have acquired under §§ 862 et seq. of Title 3 and the personnel laws and regulations in effect, and said transfers shall be conducted within the standards established by Act No. 5 of October 14, 1975, known as the Public Service Personnel Act and the Regulations on the Essential Areas of the Merit Principal and on transfers.
History —July 2, 1985, No. 52, p. 181, § 7.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 3 - Health Centers and Rural Dispensaries (§§ 71 — 80) › § 74h - Municipal health, treatment and diagnosis centers—Contents of agreement

Any agreement signed in accordance with §§ 74a—74u of this title shall specify, among other terms and conditions, the following:
(a) The contribution to be made by the municipality which through an ordinance shall be set aside in the budget.
(b) The moneys appropriated by the Secretary of Health for the purposes contemplated herein which shall be budgeted by the Secretary according to need for the organization, administration and operation of the health facilities and for the purchase of equipment, according to the provisions of §§ 74a—74u of this title.
(c) Adescription of the health services to be rendered according to the agreement.
(d) The effective date of the contract, the reasons for which it may be terminated and the procedure to be followed for its renewal or cancellation.
(e) Release by the municipal entity of the judicial and extrajudicial liability of the Department of Health.
(f) To establish that it will be the obligation of the municipal entity to keep in effect, for the entire term of the contract, hospital professional malpractice policies for the amount deemed convenient by the Secretary of Health, and a faithful performance bond for a sum equivalent to from twenty-five [percent] (25%) to fifty percent (50%) of the annual budget of the primary facility, at the discretion of the Secretary of Health.
(g) Those terms and conditions that are necessary to carry out the purposes of §§ 74a—74u of this title or of any other applicable legislation in effect.
History —July 2, 1985, No. 52, p. 181, § 8.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 3 - Health Centers and Rural Dispensaries (§§ 71 — 80) › § 74i - Municipal health, treatment and diagnosis centers—Recommendations by municipality

The municipality may recommend to the Secretary of Health the capital works and improvements to extend, remodel or improve the physical facilities, and said Secretary shall take them into consideration within the resources available for the construction and remodeling of health facilities.
History —July 2, 1985, No. 52, p. 181, § 9.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 3 - Health Centers and Rural Dispensaries (§§ 71 — 80) › § 74j - Municipal health, treatment and diagnosis centers—Delegating or subcontracting services; prior approval

The municipal governments shall not delegate on or subcontract with private corporations, associations or professional groups the administration and operation of the diagnosis and treatment centers and health centers, unless a feasibility study has been carried out by a firm of recognized professional capacity and without the prior approval of the Secretary of Health. Said delegation and subcontracting shall be subject to the provisions of law in effect which are applicable to this type of transaction.
History —July 2, 1985, No. 52, p. 181, § 10.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 3 - Health Centers and Rural Dispensaries (§§ 71 — 80) › § 74k - Municipal health, treatment and diagnosis centers—Parties executing agreement; statutory provisions integral elements thereof

The agreement to be made according to the provisions of §§ 74a—74u of this title must be signed by the Secretary of Health and by the mayor of the municipality, and each and everyone of the provisions of §§ 74a—74u of this title shall be a part thereof. The signing of the contract shall be reported in the next regular or special session of the municipal legislature.
History —July 2, 1985, No. 52, p. 181, § 11.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 3 - Health Centers and Rural Dispensaries (§§ 71 — 80) › § 74l - Municipal health, treatment and diagnosis centers—Failure to comply; cancellation; notice

Failure to comply without a justified cause with the obligations and responsibilities assumed by the parties under the agreement signed pursuant to the provisions of §§ 74a—74u of this title shall cause the cancellation thereof; provided, that the petitioner of the action has advised the other party thereof at least ninety (90) days prior to the same.
Once the contract has been cancelled, the transfer of the personnel, property and funds which have not been used shall be provided as they may correspond to each of the parties.
History —July 2, 1985, No. 52, p. 181, § 12.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 3 - Health Centers and Rural Dispensaries (§§ 71 — 80) › § 74m - Municipal health, treatment and diagnosis centers—Prior agreements in effect

The facilities that are at present being administered and operated jointly by the Department of Health and the municipal governments shall continue in operation in accordance with the terms and conditions of the agreement in effect, until they request that the Secretary of Health delegates on them the administration and operation of said facilities and an agreement is signed in accordance with the provisions of §§ 74a—74u of this title.
History —July 2, 1985, No. 52, p. 181, § 13.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 3 - Health Centers and Rural Dispensaries (§§ 71 — 80) › § 74n - Municipal health, treatment and diagnosis centers—Periodic reports to Secretary

The municipal governments that have signed an agreement shall submit to the Secretary of Health, through the respective area and regional health offices, the periodic reports on the operation and services rendered that the Secretary may require as well as any special report he deems necessary or convenient.
History —July 2, 1985, No. 52, p. 181, § 14.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 3 - Health Centers and Rural Dispensaries (§§ 71 — 80) › § 74o - Municipal health, treatment and diagnosis centers—Community Consulting Board; designation

Any municipality that signs a contract for the administration and operation of health facilities pursuant to the provisions of §§ 74a—74u of this title shall designate a Community Consulting Board which shall have the functions specified hereinafter. The Board shall be constituted no later than one hundred and eighty (180) days after having signed the first agreement.
History —July 2, 1985, No. 52, p. 181, § 15.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 3 - Health Centers and Rural Dispensaries (§§ 71 — 80) › § 74p - Municipal health, treatment and diagnosis centers—Community Consulting Board; members

The Community Consulting Board, hereinafter denominated as “the Board”, shall be composed of nine (9) members to be appointed by the Mayor for a two (2)-year term. Four (4) of them shall be consumers; one, a physician in the active practice of his profession; one, a professional nurse in the active practice of her profession, two (2) members of the Area Office or the Regional Office of the Department of Health, and one member appointed by the Secretary of Health. The mayor shall be an ex officio member of the Board. The Chairman of the Board shall be elected from among its members.
History —July 2, 1985, No. 52, p. 181, § 16.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE TWENTY-FOUR - Health and Sanitation (§§ 1 — 15010) › PART I - Hospitals, Institutions, And Health Programs (§§ 1 — 343k) › Chapter 3 - Health Centers and Rural Dispensaries (§§ 71 — 80) › § 74q - Municipal health, treatment and diagnosis centers—Community Consulting Board; functions

The Board shall have the responsibility of seeing that a program is established and maintained for the evaluation of the health services that are rendered in accordance with the contract signed between the Secretary of Health and the municipality, in order to guarantee quality health services to all the population and the compliance of the obligations contracted.
The basic standards and procedures for the evaluation of the quality of the services shall be established by the Secretary of Health in consultation with the municipal governments and the Board.
The Board shall also have the responsibility of evaluating and making recommendations regarding the policy on the rendering of health services in the pertinent facilities and on the development and capital improvements plan, in order to ensure that it responds to the best interests of the community.
The Board will also have the responsibility of advising the municipal governments and the Directors of the facility on the process of execution and compliance of the terms and conditions agreed in the contract and of the goals established in the work plan and budget.
History —July 2, 1985, No. 52, p. 181, § 17.