2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE EIGHTEEN - Education (§§ 1 — 3510-3520) › PART III - Educational Activities Generally (§§ 861-866 — 1597b) › Chapter 76 - Development of Arts and Culture (§§ 1159-1159q — 1166g) › Subchapter IV - Symphony Orchestra Corporation (§§ 1162 — 1162f) › § 1162a - Duties and powers

The Corporation shall have, without being limited to, the following duties and powers:
(a) To ensure the broadest participation to Puerto Rican composers and a preferred treatment to our country’s soloists.
(b) To coordinate the efforts of the government, the performers, industry and the private citizens interested in the programs and operations of the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra.
(c) To stimulate the development of commercial and financial mechanisms needed for the advancement and proper functioning of the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra.
(d) To establish a permanent program of special scholarships for the improvement of the members of the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, or for those gifted students who could be future members of the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, with the purpose of improving the quality and excellence of musical artistry of the Symphony Orchestra and requiring the recipients to render public services as needed pursuant to the standards and regulations adopted.
(e) To subsist in perpetuity, to sue and be sued as a juridical person.
(f) To hold and use a corporate seal which it may alter at will, and of which judicial notice shall be taken.
(g) To acquire rights and properties, both personal and real, by donation, legacy, purchase or other legal manner; and to hold and dispose of them according to law in the manner established in its own bylaws for as long as it is necessary and convenient to fulfill its corporate goals, and in the best interests of the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra Corporation.
(h) To establish the standards and regulations needed for its internal operation and functioning, and to govern the programs and activities of the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra Corporation.
(i) To have absolute control of its properties and activities, including its funds. To adopt its own accounting system with the approval of the Board of Directors of the Musical Arts Corporation. The Corporation shall keep its accounts in such a way that each activity may be segregated. The Comptroller of Puerto Rico or his representative shall examine the accounts and books of the Corporation from time to time.
(j) To accept donations or loans and to enter into contracts, agreements and other transactions with federal agencies and with the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, its agencies, instrumentalities and municipalities and to invest the proceeds of any such donations or loans for any legal corporate purpose.
(k) To enter into contracts and formalize any kind of documents that are necessary or convenient for the exercise of any of its powers.
(l) To administer its own personnel system, to appoint all its officials, agents and employees who shall be public employees entitled to become members of the Puerto Rico Government Employees Association and to avail themselves of the benefits of the Retirement System of the Government of Puerto Rico. To vest the employees with the powers and assign to them the duties deemed pertinent and to [set] their remuneration, subject to the regulations established by the Board of Directors of the Musical Arts Corporation. The Corporation shall be an agency excluded from the provisions of Act No. 5 of October 14, 1975, known as the “Puerto Rico Public Service Personnel Act” and the personnel regulations adopted by virtue thereof. The Corporation shall faithfully comply with the provisions of Section 10.6 of said Act. With the prior approval of the Board of Directors of the Musical Arts Corporation, the Director General of the Corporation shall adopt a personnel system, compensation and classification plans and the rules and regulations needed to comply with said purposes.
With the prior approval of the Board of Directors of the Musical Arts Corporation and the Director of the Office of Government Management and the Budget, the General Director may contract the services of the employees and officials of any other agency, instrumentality, dependency, public institution or political subdivision of the Government of Puerto Rico, and shall pay them the due compensation due for additional services rendered to the Corporation aside from their regular working hours without being subject to the provision of § 551 of Title 3 and to the provisions of any other applicable law.
Upon requesting said authorization, the Director General must justify the need to contract such personnel.
(m) To lease and dispose of any of its properties or of any interest thereon, in the way, manner and extent to be determined by the Corporation.
(n) To perform all acts necessary or convenient to carry out the powers granted to it by § 1162—1162f of this title or any other act.
(o) To receive funds from public and private sources and to spend such funds for purposes consistent with the objectives of the Corporation.
History —May 12, 1980, No. 44, p. 119, § 2; July 31, 1985, No. 3, p. 783, § 2.