2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART I - Organization of the Court (§§ 1-3 — 251) › Chapter 6 - System to Evaluate Candidates for Judges and Judgeship (§§ 71 — 74c) › Subchapter II - Evaluation of Candidates to the Judgeship (§§ 72 — 72c) › § 72a - Judiciary Appointment Office—Executive director

The Executive Director of the Office shall have the following faculties, powers and duties:
(a) Organize and direct the work of the Office.
(b) Designate the personnel needed to carry out the responsibilities established by this chapter pursuant to the Personnel Administration Regulations of the Office of the Governor itself.
(c) Conduct confidential investigations, by request of the Governor or the Committee, regarding the character and repute of a candidate. He/she may request the appearance of any person or the production of any document necessary and pertinent for the evaluation of a candidate.
(d) Offer the Committee any technical, personnel, professional services, equipment and supplies support that is needed.
(e) Adopt the norms needed to implement a uniform procedure of applications for initial appointments, promotions and renominations of judges, which will expedite the compliance of the terms demanded by this chapter.
(f) Maintain a permanent registry which shall identify the names of the applicants, the documentation of the application record, the evaluations of the Committee, and when proper, that of the Judiciary Evaluating Commission, and any other pertinent information that allows the evaluation of the candidate. The registry with the names of all of the applicants shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation at least once a year, inviting the citizenry to express itself regarding the merits of the applicants.
(g) Coordinate the request and receipt of information that the Committee needs.
(h) Inform the Governor of the final evaluations made by the Committee.
(i) Remit to the Committee any applications for appointments, and for promotions of a judge, including a copy of the letters of recommendation that have been received from the persons mentioned in the application as professional or personal references.
(j) Remit to the Bar Association any application for the appointment and renomination or promotion of a judge.
(k) Remit any renomination or promotion application of a judge to the Judiciary Branch, including a copy of the letters of recommendation received from the persons mentioned in the application as professional or personal references.
(l) Coordinate the transactions of the appointments made by the Governor.
(m) Request and receive the evaluations and recommendations of the different evaluating bodies.
(n) He/she may request the departments, agencies, instrumentalities and any other body of the Executive Branch of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to provide professional or technical personnel, from among their officials and employees, to assist his/her Office in the compliance of its functions. Any government body receiving such request shall give such collaboration.
(o) Perform any other activity that is entrusted to it by the Governor or the Committee, or which is needed for the compliance of his/her duties and responsibilities.
History —Dec. 5, 1991, No. 91, § 4; July 29, 2010, No. 108, § 2.