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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 95 - Council for Protection of Archaeological Lands Patrimony of Puerto Rico (§§ 1551 — 1566) › § 1551 - Declaration of public use

Every archaeological site, object, deposit, artifact, document or material that is a relic of man’s past, whether a product of nature or built by man, that exists or is found on or under the surface of the earth in the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, is hereby declared of public use and patrimony of the People of Puerto Rico.
History —July 20, 1988, No. 112, p. 459, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 95 - Council for Protection of Archaeological Lands Patrimony of Puerto Rico (§§ 1551 — 1566) › § 1552 - Council—Creation

In order to insure faithful compliance with the objectives and provisions of this chapter, the Council for the Protection of Archaeological Lands Patrimony of Puerto Rico is hereby created, attached to the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, hereinafter denominated the “Council”. This shall be the government body responsible for protecting and keeping these archaeological resources while promoting a scientific inventory and the study of these archaeological values in harmony with the public policy of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
History —July 20, 1988, No. 112, p. 459, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 95 - Council for Protection of Archaeological Lands Patrimony of Puerto Rico (§§ 1551 — 1566) › § 1555 - Property of archaeological interest—Notification

Within ninety (90) days following the effective date of this act, all natural or juridical persons and all agencies and Government instrumentalities, including its public corporations and municipalities, shall be bound to notify the Council, in writing, about all those materials, structures or sites under their control, possession or custody which could be of Puerto Rican land archaeological interest, as provided in § 1551 of this title. It shall also be an obligation to notify the Council of any archaeological discovery located on the surface which might be susceptible to being declared of public utility as stated in § 1551 of this title, within thirty (30) days from the date it occurs. The violation of the provisions of this section shall constitute a misdemeanor punishable with a fine of not less than three hundred dollars ($300) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) or imprisonment for a term of not less than ten (10) days nor more than six (6) months, or both penalties, at the discretion of the court. Noncompliance with this obligation shall also convey the nullity of any transaction carried out with relation to such property or things.
History —July 20, 1988, No. 112, p. 459, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 95 - Council for Protection of Archaeological Lands Patrimony of Puerto Rico (§§ 1551 — 1566) › § 1556 - Property of archaeological interest—Protection of property rights

The natural or juridical persons and government agencies, including public corporations and municipalities, that have discovered or acquired archaeological property prior to the effective date of this act shall conserve rights of ownership of such property or things without any limitations other than those established by this chapter and subject to the notification required by § 1555 of this title.
History —July 20, 1988, No. 112, p. 459, § 6.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 95 - Council for Protection of Archaeological Lands Patrimony of Puerto Rico (§§ 1551 — 1566) › § 1557 - Property of archaeological interest—Acquisition by the Government

The Secretary of Justice is hereby authorized and directed to acquire in any legal manner and through purchase or condemnation under right of eminent domain, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, any property or object that constitutes part of the Puerto Rican land archaeological heritage which, in the Council’s judgment, is merited, as well as the use, usufruct, lease or any other right thereon, on his own or upon request of the Council. In cases of eminent domain, the Secretary of Justice shall be empowered to represent the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in the proceedings, and the prior statement of public utility provided in the General Public Domain Act, §§ 2901 et seq. of Title 32, shall not be necessary.
History —July 20, 1988, No. 112, p. 459, § 7.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 95 - Council for Protection of Archaeological Lands Patrimony of Puerto Rico (§§ 1551 — 1566) › § 1558 - Property of archaeological interest—Restoration, conservation and maintenance

The Executive Director of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture is hereby directed to restore, conserve and attend to the maintenance of any property or land archaeological object belonging to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, upon request of and in consultation with the Council. The Director of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture may request from any department, agency, administration, corporation, municipality or dependency of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and they may lend or provide it with the resources, personnel and facilities they deem necessary to carry out the restoration and conservation works needed to preserve and give maintenance to any land archaeological property. Any public official or employee temporarily transferred to the Council by virtue of the provisions of this section shall retain the rights, benefits, classification and position held in the original department, agency, administration, corporation, municipality or public dependency.
History —July 20, 1988, No. 112, p. 459, § 8.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 95 - Council for Protection of Archaeological Lands Patrimony of Puerto Rico (§§ 1551 — 1566) › § 1559 - Property of archaeological interest—Permit; application

Upon the effective date of this act, no natural or juridical person, government agency, public corporation or municipality may sell or barter, transfer, alter, take possession of, convey or remove from the territory of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, any property or object that constitutes part of the Puerto Rican land archaeological heritage pursuant to the provisions of § 1551 of this title without notifying the Council of it and without first having obtained their authorization to carry out the corresponding procedure. Any natural or juridical, public or private person who wishes to remove or transfer archaeological objects, property or materials out of Puerto Rico on his own or through other persons must request and obtain a written permit to those effects from the Council. This request must include, along with any other information the Council deems necessary, a description accompanied with illustrations or true and exact photographs of the archaeological objects, property or materials in question; the destination outside of Puerto Rico to which they are to be transferred and the purpose or reason for the transfer; the means of transportation and packing system of the properties or objects; the guarantees offered of their return to Puerto Rico, and the time they shall be outside Puerto Rico.
Archaeological objects or property owned by or under the custody of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or any of its agencies, instrumentalities, dependencies or municipalities, may only be removed or transferred outside of Puerto Rico for exhibition, laboratory analysis or restoration purposes and, in any event, shall be subject to the norms determined by the Council for custody, conservation and protection, and with enough guarantees to ensure their return to Puerto Rico. After prior investigation to such effect, the Council shall have a thirty (30)-day term to authorize or refuse the notice and request for authorization which have been received. Provided, That if no answer is received within that term, it shall be understood as an implied authorization on the part of the Council. The thirty (30)-day term may be extended when the Council shows just cause as to why a longer term should be granted to carry out the indicated investigation.
History —July 20, 1988, No. 112, p. 459, § 9.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 95 - Council for Protection of Archaeological Lands Patrimony of Puerto Rico (§§ 1551 — 1566) › § 1560 - Excavations—Authorization required

As of the date of approval of this act, no construction or reconstruction work, nor excavation, extraction or earth-moving works may be initiated or continued at any site whatsoever for which there is prior documentation or reliable indications of the presence of archaeological material, unless the Council’s authorization is obtained. The Permit Management Office shall not grant a construction permit, nor shall the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources grant an excavation, extraction or earth moving permit in those sites unless the contractor or owner of the works presents evidence to it of the Council’s authorization required by this section.
When the construction or reconstruction, extraction, excavation or earth-moving work is at a site about which there is no previous documentation or reliable indications of the presence of archaeological material, and after it is initiated archaeological material is discovered, the contractor or owner of the work, as the case may be, shall suspend the same and notify the Council within twenty-four (24) hours following said find, in order to obtain the corresponding authorization to continue the work or tasks in question. The Council shall determine if the contractor or owner of the work shall be required to present a Declaration of Archaeological Impact no later than three (3) days after the date of notice of the find.
In order to comply with the provisions of this section, the Council shall establish, through regulations, the various forms and criteria for the archaeological impact evaluation. The arbitrary destruction of any material, structure or a site of land archaeological interest or the voluntary failure to notify the initiation of a construction, earth-moving or excavation project, as provided in this chapter, shall be deemed a felony and, upon conviction thereof, the person shall be punished with a fine of not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) nor more than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), or imprisonment for a term of not less than one (1) year nor more than three (3) years, or both penalties at the discretion of the court, in addition to the indefinite stoppage of the project until all the requirements of this chapter are met.
History —July 20, 1988, No. 112, p. 459, § 10.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 95 - Council for Protection of Archaeological Lands Patrimony of Puerto Rico (§§ 1551 — 1566) › § 1561 - Excavations—[Stoppage] or suspension by Court of First Instance

When construction, excavation, extraction or earth-moving work is carried out without the authorization required in § 1560 of this title or when the conditions imposed in the authorization granted are violated, the Council may resort to the Court of First Instance to issue a resolution directing the stopping or suspension of the works in question until the requirements of this chapter are met. The court may order the demolition of what has been constructed and the restoration or reconstruction of the material, structure or site if the work carried out modifies or destroys the authenticity or value of the archaeological content. If the damage is irreparable, the person liable therefor shall compensate the People of Puerto Rico for the damages caused.
In the abovementioned cases, the owner of the work and the contractor shall be jointly liable for the obligations to be imposed.
History —July 20, 1988, No. 112, p. 459, § 11.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 95 - Council for Protection of Archaeological Lands Patrimony of Puerto Rico (§§ 1551 — 1566) › § 1562 - Reconsideration of administrative decisions

Any party affected adversely by a resolution, order or decision of the Council may request a reconsideration before the same within a term of thirty (30) days after receiving notice of said resolution, order or decision.
The filing of the request for reconsideration shall not exempt any person from complying nor obeying any resolution, order or decision of the Council. The request for reconsideration shall not operate in any way to suspend or postpone the effectiveness of the resolution, order or decision unless there is a special order from the Council, upon petition of the party. In the request for reconsideration, the grounds therefor shall be specifically stated. The Council, after due hearing, may grant or reject the reconsideration or suspend, amend or revoke the resolution, order or decision in question. The Council shall issue its grounded decision on the request for reconsideration within a term of thirty (30) days, counting from the date of filing of the request for reconsideration. The filing of a request for reconsideration shall suspend the term for filing an appeal for review before the Court of First Instance, and the term shall again be counted when the final decision of the Council regarding the request for reconsideration is notified.
The resolution or decision issued by the court shall be firm and final, unless the party affected adversely requests a review before the Court of First Instance of Puerto Rico within thirty (30) days following the date of notice. The petitioner shall notify the Council by sending a copy of the appeal for review on the same date it is filed.
The filing of an appeal for review of any resolution, order or decision of the Council shall not suspend the effects of such resolution, order or decision, unless the court so orders upon petition of the interested party, after a hearing and determination that the party against which the resolution, order or decision has been rendered will suffer serious or irreparable damages by the failure to decree said suspension. The resolution issued to such effects by the court shall indicate those provisional remedies deemed reasonable to respond for the damages that could be caused by the suspension of the execution of the resolution, order or decision of the Council.
The revision shall be carried out on the grounds of the duly certified administrative record of the procedures before the Council. The determinations of the Council with respect to the facts shall be conclusive if upheld by substantial evidence. The resolution thus rendered shall become final after thirty (30) days of its notice and may only be reviewed through certiorari before the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, which shall issue its order at its discretion.
History —July 20, 1988, No. 112, p. 459, § 12.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 95 - Council for Protection of Archaeological Lands Patrimony of Puerto Rico (§§ 1551 — 1566) › § 1564 - Donations

The Council, in the performance of its duties, may accept donations of services or properties, whether real or personal, corporeal or incorporeal, that will help to carry out the purposes of this chapter. Likewise, it may make cooperative arrangements with the departments or agencies of the federal government, the Government of Puerto Rico, or the municipalities, with public or private corporations, natural or juridical persons or associations, under the terms and conditions agreed upon by the Council in the public interest of the patrimony of the People of Puerto Rico stated in this chapter.
History —July 20, 1988, No. 112, p. 459, § 14.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 95 - Council for Protection of Archaeological Lands Patrimony of Puerto Rico (§§ 1551 — 1566) › § 1565 - Personnel

The Council shall designate the personnel needed to carry out the functions, powers and duties delegated to it by this chapter. The Council shall constitute an Individual Administrator, as such term is defined in Act No. 5 of October 14, 1975, known as the “Public Service Personnel Act”.
With the approval of the Governor, the Council may direct any department, agency, bureau, division, authority, instrumentality, body or political subdivision of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to conduct any study or research or any phase or part thereof and to carry out any other type of work that is needed for the performance of its duties. The government body that receives said duty shall give full priority to said study, research or work, as feasible. The government body that has been asked to conduct said study, investigation or work, may request the Council and obtain from it, if it deems it necessary and upon prior authorization from the Governor, a transfer of funds for the sum that the Council deems pertinent.
The Council may appoint Advisory and Collaboration Committees in each of the municipalities of Puerto Rico, which shall be composed of residents of said municipalities.
History —July 20, 1988, No. 112, p. 459, § 15.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 95 - Council for Protection of Archaeological Lands Patrimony of Puerto Rico (§§ 1551 — 1566) › § 1566 - Fund

The Puerto Rico Archaeological Lands Patrimony Protection Fund is hereby created in the Department of the Treasury, to be nourished from the funds that are donated, transferred, appropriated or obtained through agreement or contract of the Council to implement this chapter, as well as any other financial resources proceeding from the operations that, pursuant to this chapter, are carried out by the Council.
The Secretary of the Treasury shall make available to the Council the moneys in said Fund so that, in accordance with the laws and regulations that govern the disbursement of public funds, the operating expenses thereof can be defrayed.
History —July 20, 1988, No. 112, p. 459, § 16.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 96 - Technological-Occupational Education System Act (§§ 1581 — 1591) › § 1581 - Definitions

For the purposes of this chapter the following terms and phrases shall have the meaning set forth below:
(a) Agency. — Shall mean the conglomerate of functions, offices and positions that constitute all the jurisdiction of a nominating authority, regardless of it being denominated as a department, agency, office, committee, board, public corporation or instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(b) Committee. — Shall mean the Technological-Occupational Education Advisory Committee.
(c) Council. — Shall mean the Occupational and Human Resources Development Council as redesignated by § 8 of Reorganization Plan No. 2 of the Department of Labor and Human Resources of May 4, 1994, formerly known as the Technological Occupational Education Council.
(d) Technological-occupational education or Occupational education. —shall mean the systematic and formal process to provide each participant with the knowledge and experiences to develop the skills that will enable him to secure employment, retain it and advance in his working condition.
(e) Governor. — Shall mean the Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(f) Strategic five-year plan. — Shall mean the duly planned development in a five (5) year period such as described in § 1588 of this title.
(g) Plan. — Shall mean the Implementation Plan, pursuant to § 1591 of this title.
(h) Chairperson. — Shall mean the person who chairs the Technological-Occupational Education Council, who shall be the administrator of the system.
(i) Program. — Shall mean the [major] effort carried out by an agency directed toward a specific goal and which responds to some legal requirements or to the initiative of the executives. It forms a service unit based on the clientele it serves and on the operating organization or structure.
(j) Secretary. — Shall mean the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources of Puerto Rico.
(k) System. — Shall mean the conglomerate of agencies, programs or operating units that, directly or indirectly, offer services related to non-university technological-occupational education.
(l) Operating unit. — Shall mean a part of the effort made within a program in order to attain the final objective or product thereof. The activities are usually conducted at the low or intermediate level of the organizational structure of a program or section.
History —Dec. 18, 1991, No. 97, § 2; July 23, 1998, No. 166, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 96 - Technological-Occupational Education System Act (§§ 1581 — 1591) › § 1582 - Creation

In order to modernize and bolster occupational education in Puerto Rico and expedite the development thereof, the Technological-Occupational Education System of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is hereby created. Its main purpose shall be to offer a diverse and advanced technological-occupational education for the population. The system shall designate both normatively and programmatically, all the programs and services related to job education and training. The following agencies, programs or operational units shall be a part of this system:
(a) Occupational programs of the Technical, Vocational and High Skills Education Area of the Department of Education, created by §§ 501 et seq. of this title. The Technological Institutes of said Department shall be included, as well as their San Juan, Ponce, Guayama and Manati campuses.
The special general education programs and projects at the elementary and high school level attached to said area are not included.
(b) The Corps of Volunteers at the Service of Puerto Rico, created by §§ 1411 et seq. of this title.
(c) The Vocational Rehabilitation Program of the Department of the Family created by §§ 1046 et seq. of this title.
(d) The educational and training programs of the Right to Employment Administration, created under §§ 1101 et seq. of Title 29, and those delegated by the Governor by virtue of the Job Training Act (J.T.P.A.).
(e) The Tourist Company’s Hotel School, as created in § 671e(5) of Title 23.
(f) Any other government programs that provide and promote technological-occupational education, including the non-university post secondary level; without it being understood as a limitation to those programs funded by federal laws: Family Support Act of October 13, 1988 (J.O.B.S.), Wagner-Peyser Act of 1933 as amended, and of Title IV of the Job Training Act (J.T.P.A.), Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Program and by the programs created by §§ 701 et seq. of Title 29 and 201 et seq. of Title 11.
(g) The Work and Training Enterprises Corporation, attached to the Department of Justice, created by § 1521 et seq. of Title 4.
History —Dec. 18, 1991, No. 97, § 3; July 31, 1992, No. 43, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 96 - Technological-Occupational Education System Act (§§ 1581 — 1591) › § 1583 - Objectives

For the purpose of regulating the system, the following general objectives are established herein:
(a) Develop diverse and varied occupational, technical and high-skill educational programs in the public as well as the private sectors, in accordance with the needs of the different economic sectors of the Commonwealth, including, but without it being understood as a limitation, secondary and post-graduate programs, job training, and specialized short courses, and granting of diplomas, degrees or certificates of competence to those who meet the requirements established for the various programs.
(b) Promote the flexibility and diversification of the technological-occupational education offerings to temper them to social changes, knowledge and technological progress, interests of the groups’ population and specific clienteles.
(c) Implement innovative models of occupational education that incorporate the private and public entrepreneurial sector as partners in the teaching process.
(d) Train youths and adults so that they may productively join the Commonwealth’s labor force.
(e) Train persons with physical or mental limitations, so that they may join the work environment.
(f) Retrain youths and adults so that they may develop the skills needed to work in a new occupation.
(g) Articulate the technological and occupational education offers at the different levels and systems in which they are implemented.
(h) Extol the value and dignity of work and non-university occupations.
(i) Offer occupational guidance and advisory services.
(j) Expedite the employment placement of graduates in jobs.
History —Dec. 18, 1991, No. 97, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 96 - Technological-Occupational Education System Act (§§ 1581 — 1591) › § 1587 - Council—Office

The Office of the Chairperson is hereby created which shall have the [primary] function of enabling the public policy on technological-occupational education and the objectives contained in this chapter, thus facilitating both the government’s efforts and those of private entities that are interested in participating and collaborating with the government’s efforts.
The Office of the Chairperson shall attend to all matters related to strategic planning, provision of funds, employment liaison services, the establishing of an occupational information system and the integration of the initiatives and resources of the economy’s private sector into the public effort. It shall also evaluate and arrange systematically the system’s educational offerings with the opportunities offered in the job market.
History —Dec. 18, 1991, No. 97, § 8.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 96 - Technological-Occupational Education System Act (§§ 1581 — 1591) › § 1589 - Licensing and accreditation

(a) The Council shall specifically designate a Technological-Occupational Education Accreditation Advisory Board to handle each licensing or accreditation request of public or private institutions that offer vocational, technical and high skills education or non-university postsecondary education pursuant to §§ 2111 et seq. of this title.
The technological-occupational non-university private educational institutions that upon the effective date of this act hold a license duly granted pursuant to §§ 2101 et seq. of this title shall continue to operate under such license until renewed, modified, suspended or revoked by the Council. Every licensing procedure that has been initiated upon the effectiveness of this act shall continue to be handled according to the provisions of law and regulations initiated.
(b) The accreditations of the programs and operating units that [comprise] the system shall be granted for periods that shall not exceed six (6) years, which may be renewed in harmony with the standards established to such effects. The Council shall establish the minimum academic requirements.
(c) Once this act takes effect, an evaluation process shall be initiated for the accreditation of all institutions and programs of the system and shall be completed in a period of five (5) years. The Council shall establish, by regulations, the period that it shall grant to the institutions that do not obtain accreditation to correct the deficiencies found. If after three evaluations, a public institution or program is not able to correct the indicated deficiencies, the Advisory Board shall submit its recommendations to the Council with regard to the cancellation of the license and, in that event, the institution shall not offer any educational course whatsoever. The Council shall establish the standards so that the offerings of those institutions can be offered by other educational institutions.
History —Dec. 18, 1991, No. 97, § 10.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 96 - Technological-Occupational Education System Act (§§ 1581 — 1591) › § 1591 - Implementation Plan

The Chairperson shall submit the Implementation Plan of this chapter to the Council for its approval, which shall provide, among other things, [for] the way in which the system shall be organized. The Plan must contain the following, without it being understood as a limitation:
(a) An analysis of the administrative, teaching, fiscal and legal system of each program, agency or operating unit.
(b) The manner in which the programs and agencies that compose the system shall be integrated and coordinated, whether as a program, agency or an operating unit separate or coordinated with the system or integrated to other components of the system. In the event that the Council determines that any one of the existing programs should be separated from the agency to which it is attached, and constituted as an independent program within the system, or attached to another program, it will provide the Plan for the form and manner of conducting these transfers.
(c) Plans and perspectives of short- and long-term actions.
(d) Tentative agenda in stages, to attain the Council’s Strategic Five-Year Plan and its Implementation Plan.
(e) Recommendations of amendments to the statutes that create the programs, agencies and operating units or to this chapter.
The Council must submit the Implementation Plan to the Governor and the Legislature for their approval not later than one year after the Council has been constituted.
It is hereby provided that until the approval of the Implementation Plan, the agencies, programs and bodies to be attached to the Council shall coordinate their works with the Council in the normative, planning and budgetary phases through the Chairperson.
History —Dec. 18, 1991, No. 97, § 12.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 97 - Agricultural Museum (§§ 1592 — 1592k) › § 1592 - Establishment

The Puerto Rico Agronomists’ Association is hereby authorized to establish the Agricultural Museum of Puerto Rico, attached to the Puerto Rico Agronomists’ Association, with the purpose of collecting historical documents, notable objects, items of agricultural technology, photographs, books and information regarding the current and past centuries’ agricultural development of Puerto Rico.
History —Aug. 13, 1994, No. 75, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 97 - Agricultural Museum (§§ 1592 — 1592k) › § 1592a - Objectives and duties

Among its objectives and duties, the Museum shall carry out research that will lead to the location of this material overseas and within Puerto Rico, the custody and exhibition to the public of historical exhibitions, to recognize through proper identification the donors of items and documents, and to preserve, conserve, enrich and divulge the agricultural patrimony of Puerto Rico. These functions shall be governed by the studies of museums and documents conducted by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture.
History —Aug. 13, 1994, No. 75, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 97 - Agricultural Museum (§§ 1592 — 1592k) › § 1592b - Report on studies

The Institute of Puerto Rican Culture shall conduct studies of museums and documents in order to indicate how the Agricultural Museum will be established. On the basis of these studies, the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture shall draft a report which shall be submitted to the Board of Directors of the Agricultural Museum.
History —Aug. 13, 1994, No. 75, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 97 - Agricultural Museum (§§ 1592 — 1592k) › § 1592c - Official site

The Agricultural Museum shall be located on the lands of the former Central San Vicente in the Municipality of Vega Baja.
History —Aug. 13, 1994, No. 75, § 4; Aug. 29, 2002, No. 218, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 97 - Agricultural Museum (§§ 1592 — 1592k) › § 1592d - Board of Directors

The Agronomists Association shall create a Board of Directors that shall adopt the norms, rules, regulations and procedures that are necessary and convenient to exercise their powers and accomplish the purposes of the Agricultural Museum.
The Board of Directors shall be composed of ten (10) members, which shall include the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, the Chairperson of the Agronomist Association, the Chairperson of the Farmers’ Association, the Dean of the School of Agricultural Sciences of the Mayagüez Campus of the University of Puerto Rico, the Executive Director of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, the Secretary of the Department of Education, the Chairperson of the Agricultural Committee of the Puerto Rico Agronomists Association, the Mayor of Vega Baja as an ex officio member and two (2) representatives of the public interest knowledgeable in the fields of history and museology, selected by the Governor, with the previous recommendation of the Agronomists Association of Puerto Rico for a term of three (3) years each.
The Board of Directors shall elect a chairperson from among its members and those officers it deems convenient for a term of three (3) years.
The Agricultural Museum shall have an Executive Director appointed by the Board of Directors of the Museum, who shall perform his duties at the Board’s volition, until his successor is designated.
The Board of Directors shall delegate to the Executive Director or other employees of the Agricultural Museum those powers and duties it deems proper to delegate, except the power to regulate, the drafting and approval of the budget, and the fiscal supervision of the institution, which shall not be delegated. The Board of Directors shall set the salary of all the personnel of the Agricultural Museum pursuant to the norms that apply for positions of similar category.
History —Aug. 13, 1994, No. 75, § 5; Aug. 12, 1996, No. 132, § 1; Aug. 29, 2002, No. 218, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 97 - Agricultural Museum (§§ 1592 — 1592k) › § 1592e - Donations

The Agricultural Museum of Puerto Rico is hereby authorized to accept and use gifts, loans or funds from appropriations, materials, properties or other similar benefits when [originating] from any person, private institution, the State Government, the federal government, the municipal governments, from any instrumentality or agency of said governments, and to participate in contracts and convenants with any of said governments or their instrumentalities or agencies for the use of such gifts, loans or funds.
The Board of Directors shall appoint an Advisory Committee for acquisitions and exhibitions, which shall be presided by the President of the Puerto Rico Agronomists’ Association and shall include the Director of the Agricultural Museum, the collections’ curator and two other members designated by the Board. The Committee shall have the task of supervising the collection’s acquisitions and withdrawing of objects. It also has the responsibility of supervising the management of the collections and the operation of the program for their exhibition. Every precaution should be taken to ensure that all objects acquired by the Agricultural Museum of Puerto Rico:
(a) Are of a quality and [in] a state of preservation compatible with the collections’ importance.
(b) Are of importance and related to the collections’ objectives.
(c) Meet the local and international laws and all kinds of legislation and international agreements that protect the cultural patrimony of the people.
(d) Are [available for study] among the people knowledgeable in that field who shall recommend [or not their acquisition].
History —Aug. 13, 1994, No. 75, § 6.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 97 - Agricultural Museum (§§ 1592 — 1592k) › § 1592f - Travelling exhibitions

The Agricultural Museum may organize travelling exhibitions in other towns of Puerto Rico and share their benefits.
History —Aug. 13, 1994, No. 75, § 7.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 97 - Agricultural Museum (§§ 1592 — 1592k) › § 1592g - Fundraising

The Agricultural Museum may coordinate and perform any kind of activity to raise funds for its future operation.
History —Aug. 13, 1994, No. 75, § 8.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 97 - Agricultural Museum (§§ 1592 — 1592k) › § 1592h - Type of entity

The Agricultural Museum shall be a nonprofit entity.
History —Aug. 13, 1994, No. 75, § 9.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 97 - Agricultural Museum (§§ 1592 — 1592k) › § 1592i - Equipment and materials made outside of Puerto Rico

The Agricultural Museum is hereby authorized to [accept donations and/or loans of agricultural materials and equipment of foreign provenance that had been used in Puerto Rico]. The Museum may use and order the preparation of replicas and reproductions properly identified as such, ensuring that their distribution or presentation does not affect the intrinsic value of the originals.
History —Aug. 13, 1994, No. 75, § 10.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 97 - Agricultural Museum (§§ 1592 — 1592k) › § 1592j - Authorization of funds

No book, pamphlet, document, record, diploma, title, parchment or catalogued paper, nor agricultural item or reproduction shall be removed from the place where the archive is, except when the Board of Directors, after taking all the necessary precautions for the security of the object or document and ensuring the intact devolution thereof, authorizes it.
History —Aug. 13, 1994, No. 75, § 11.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 97 - Agricultural Museum (§§ 1592 — 1592k) › § 1592k - Annual report

The Board of Directors shall render an annual report of the activities programed and performed during the year to the Puerto Rico Agronomists’ Association and to the Department of Agriculture of Puerto Rico, and shall submit an expense budget for each year and an audited financial statement, no later than the month following the end of each fiscal year.
History —Aug. 13, 1994, No. 75, § 12.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 98 - Assistance for Underachieving Students (§§ 1593 — 1593b) › § 1593 - Tutorial programs—Establishment

The Secretary of Education is hereby authorized to establish peer tutorial programs in order to improve the academic performance of underachieving students. These programs shall involve overachievers in the classroom as tutors of the underachieving classmates.
History —Aug. 19, 1996, No. 145, § 1, retroactive to July 1, 1996.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 98 - Assistance for Underachieving Students (§§ 1593 — 1593b) › § 1593a - Tutorial programs—Proposals

The authorization to establish peer tutorial programs shall be based on proposals submitted to the Secretary of Education by groups of [no fewer] than five (5) overachievers from an elementary, junior high or high school who request to be conferred [sic] the category of tutors. Said proposals shall be handled by the Directors of the schools where the peer tutorial programs shall be established.
History —Aug. 19, 1996, No. 145, § 2, retroactive to July 1, 1996.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 98 - Assistance for Underachieving Students (§§ 1593 — 1593b) › § 1593b - Tutorial programs—Regulation

The Secretary of Education shall define through regulation the norms to implement these programs, and shall also establish an award, incentive and recognition system to encourage the organization of overachieving students in tutorial teams.
To promulgate the corresponding regulations, the Secretary of Education shall take into consideration the following elements, among others:
(a) The program shall be structured in harmony with the curriculum.
(b) Develop an evaluating system that allows the effectiveness of the program to be gauged.
(c) Define the general procedure to implement this program in the schools, so that the data compiled for the evaluations helps to make comparative analyses that contribute to improve the program.
(d) Establish a system of incentives that includes, among others, the following:
(1) Compensations for student tutors and facilitator teachers.
(2) Recognition of students who improve their academic performance under tutorship.
(3) Granting of awards such as cultural trips, for example, to tutors who [show] an outstanding performance.
History —Aug. 19, 1996, No. 145, § 3, retroactive to July 1, 1996.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 99 - Pregnant Student’s Bill of Rights (§§ 1594 — 1595) › § 1594 - Rights

The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico establishes that there shall be a public education system that shall not discriminate on account of race, color, sex, birth, social origin or condition, or political or religious ideas. To guarantee the essential equality of all human beings, it is hereby declared that every pregnant student, without impairment to the laws in effect, shall be entitled to:
(1) Enjoy a tranquil and peaceful environment, and the respect to her right to intimacy and dignity and to not being a victim of bodily or emotional harm or of psychological pressures due to her pregnancy in all school premises of the public education system of the country.
(2) Receive professional advice, aid and counseling through available programs and by personnel trained in the planning and the consequences of teenage pregnancy, the medical conditions and the possible changes in her health she may experience during that period and on how to develop optimum family and community relations according to her situation, as well as on the rights, responsibilities and duties she must assume as a mother, with special emphasis on ensuring that she will be able to remain as a regular student of the public education system.
(3) Receive from the Department of Education, if available and as needed, emergency medical or therapeutic assistance, tutors or teachers for the various courses so that she may capably meet the curriculum requirements as so finish her school year.
(4) Receive any financial aid and guidance on government subsidy programs or alternatives that will allow her to achieve her full social development and that of her family unit and to continue participating as a regular student of the education system.
(5) The establishment of effective coordination to access the resources of the Department of the Family to attend to possible social, family or community problems that have led to her pregnancy or that may affect said pregnancy or her studies.
(6) The establishment of effective coordination to access the resources of the Department of Health to follow-up and provide proper care for her pregnant condition so that her capacity as a student of the school curriculum is not affected.
History —Aug. 21, 2004, No. 220, § 1, eff. 30 days after Aug. 21, 2004.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 99 - Pregnant Student’s Bill of Rights (§§ 1594 — 1595) › § 1595 - Publication

The Department of Education of Puerto Rico shall establish the mechanisms and systems needed to publish and give general circulation to the Bill of Rights of the Pregnant Student. Within thirty (30) days [following] the date of approval of this act, the Department of Education shall publish said document in full in at least one (1) newspaper of general circulation for two (2) consecutive days.
History —Aug. 21, 2004, No. 220, § 2, eff. 30 days after Aug. 21, 2004.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 99A - Rights of Students with Asthma (§§ 1596 — 1596c) › § 1596 - Right to self administration

Every public or private school student shall have the right to self administer medication for the treatment of his/her asthmatic condition upon previous consent of the parents, guardian or person in charge.
History —Feb. 1, 2006, No. 56, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 99A - Rights of Students with Asthma (§§ 1596 — 1596c) › § 1596a - Regulations

In coordination with the Secretary of Education, the Secretary of Health is hereby authorized to adopt the regulations needed for compliance with this chapter and that [sic] when doing so, they [shall] take into consideration the safety and health of asthmatic students. In the regulations to be adopted by the Department of Health, the following shall be required:
(a) The minimum age for a student to be permitted to self [administer] medication for asthma in school.
(b) Require that it be certified that the asthmatic student received the adequate training by a qualified health professional on the correct and responsible use of the medication, including: type of medication, method and procedure for its self administration, dosage for self administration, time and frequency of self administration, instruction for handling and safe ways of storing the medication.
(c) Require that the parent or guardian of the student has authorized, in writing, that the student possess and use the medication while in school or in an activity sponsored by the school.
(d) Require that any student who suffers from asthma has an action plan for asthma management in writing, prepared by his/her primary physician and for the use of the medication needed during school hours.
History —Feb. 1, 2006, No. 56, § 3.