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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART IV - Law and Notarial Practice (§§ 721 — 1001-1040) › Chapter 67 - Administration and Registry of Affidavits, Oaths, Etc (§§ 881 — 899) › § 898 - Society for Legal Assistance stamp—Exemptions

Public counsel attorneys appointed by the court to act in criminal or civil cases who issue sworn statements in said cases, the notaries who represent agencies or public instrumentalities of the Commonwealth and of the United States of America, or in those cases in which by provision of law, the cancelling of the Internal Revenue stamp and the notary’s fees is excluded, or those notaries who practice their notarial work as elected officials in the performance of their duties, shall not be compelled to cancel the stamp in benefit of the Society for Legal Assistance. Neither shall the notaries be compelled to cancel said stamp in case of a sworn statement or affidavit for electoral purposes.
History —June 4, 1982, No. 47, p. 95, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART IV - Law and Notarial Practice (§§ 721 — 1001-1040) › Chapter 69 - Registry of Powers of Attorney (§§ 921 — 927) › § 921 - Register created; registrar

A “Register of Powers of Attorney” is hereby created and the registrar thereof shall be the Director of the Notarial Inspection Office, attached to the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico.
History —May 8, 1937, No. 62, p. 185, § 2; Mar. 30, 1976, No. 19, p. 43, § 3; Dec. 13, 2007, No. 196, § 20.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART IV - Law and Notarial Practice (§§ 721 — 1001-1040) › Chapter 69 - Registry of Powers of Attorney (§§ 921 — 927) › § 922 - Registration of deeds concerning powers of attorney

It shall be the duty of every notary before whom a deed to constitute, modify, extend, substitute, renounce, revoke or renew a power of attorney is executed, to send to the Notarial Inspection Office, within the next three (3) days following the execution thereof, not counting Saturdays and Sundays or legal holidays, a notice certified under his seal, setting forth therein the name or names of the grantor or grantors and of the witnesses, and the date, number, and nature of the deed, specifying the person to whom the power of attorney is granted, extended, modified, or revoked.
In order to provide to the Notarial Inspection Office the means to establish the identity of the party or parties conferring the power of attorney if any doubt should arise, the notice shall include the number of one of the following documents, selected in order of prelation:
(1) The last four (4) digits of the number appearing on the Social Security card.
(2) Driver’s license.
(3) Passport.
(4) Green card.
(5) Identity card.
(6) Elector’s card, as provided in Act §§ 3001 et seq. of Title 16.
If the notary does not have access to any of the referred identification numbers, he/she shall so state in the notice, together with a statement of the circumstances that made it impossible for him/her to obtain the information.
In case of substitution of the power of attorney, the name of the person substituted and of the attorney-in-fact shall be stated in said notice, and in cases of renunciation of the power of attorney, the name of the constituent thereof shall be consigned in said notice; Provided, That it shall be the duty of the Director of the Notarial Inspection Office to acknowledge to the notaries the receipt of the said notice and to proceed immediately after the receipt thereof to make the corresponding entry in the Register prescribed in § 924 of this title.
History —May 8, 1937, No. 62, p. 185, § 3; May 3, 1954, No. 25, p. 166, § 1; Mar. 30, 1976, No. 19, p. 43, § 4; Dec. 13, 2007, No. 196, § 21.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART IV - Law and Notarial Practice (§§ 721 — 1001-1040) › Chapter 69 - Registry of Powers of Attorney (§§ 921 — 927) › § 923 - Instruments executed outside Puerto Rico

No instrument to constitute, modify, extend, substitute, renounce, or revoke a power of attorney, executed outside the Commonwealth shall be effective in Puerto Rico unless it is first protocolized in Puerto Rico; and it shall be the duty of the notary protocolizing such deed to comply with the provisions of § 922 of this title, as if the instrument the subject of the protocolization had been executed before him.
History —May 8, 1937, No. 62, p. 185, § 4, eff. 90 days after May 8, 1937.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART IV - Law and Notarial Practice (§§ 721 — 1001-1040) › Chapter 69 - Registry of Powers of Attorney (§§ 921 — 927) › § 924 - Register of powers of attorney; copies; internal revenue stamps

The Director of the Notarial Inspection Office shall establish a new file or data base to be designated as “Register of Powers”, in which he shall briefly set forth in chronological order all the particulars included in the notices that shall be remitted to the notaries in compliance with the provisions of § 922 of this title; Provided, That the constitution, modification, extension, substitution, renunciation, or revocation of powers of attorney shall be independently entered in separate columns of the said Register of Powers; Provided, That on every certified copy of a deed to constitute, modify, extend, substitute, renounce, or revoke a power of attorney, presented to him/her by any person after this requirement has been fulfilled, the Director of the Notarial Inspection Office shall set forth, in a note written at the foot of the document itself, the date, hour, and minute it was entered in the “Register of Powers” the particulars included in the notice prescribed in § 922 of this title, concerning the document presented to him/her. Subject to the provisions of § 927 of this title, the Director of the Notarial Inspection Office shall collect a fee of three dollars ($3) for this service and shall attest to having made the collection of such fees in the document itself. The payment of the referred fees shall be made in internal revenue stamps, which shall be cancelled on the certification itself, or in the manner to be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in coordination with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court or the person upon whom he/she delegates.
History —May 8, 1937, No. 62, p. 185, § 5; Mar. 30, 1976, No. 19, p. 43, § 5; Dec. 13, 2007, No. 196, § 22.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART IV - Law and Notarial Practice (§§ 721 — 1001-1040) › Chapter 69 - Registry of Powers of Attorney (§§ 921 — 927) › § 925 - Rights of third parties

Beginning with the date on which this act takes effect, no modification, extension, substitution, renunciation, or revocation of a power of attorney shall prejudice third parties unless such action has been noted in the said Register of Powers of Attorney.
History —May 8, 1937, No. 62, p. 185, § 6, eff. 90 days after May 8, 1937.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART IV - Law and Notarial Practice (§§ 721 — 1001-1040) › Chapter 69 - Registry of Powers of Attorney (§§ 921 — 927) › § 926 - Liability of notary for violation

Any notary who, with malice aforethought or through negligence, fails to comply with the provisions of § 922 of this title, shall, apart from any penal liability therefor, be answerable to third parties for damages caused as a consequence of such commission or negligence, and he may be admonished, fined, suspended, or [disbarred] from practice as a notary by the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico.
History —May 8, 1937, No. 62, p. 185, § 7; May 3, 1954, No. 25, p. 166, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART IV - Law and Notarial Practice (§§ 721 — 1001-1040) › Chapter 69 - Registry of Powers of Attorney (§§ 921 — 927) › § 927 - Certificates by Director of Notarial Inspection; internal revenue stamps

The Director of the Notarial Inspection Office is hereby empowered to issue under his signature and seal, at the request of any person and upon the payment of three dollars ($3), certificates in connection with the contents of the entries and actions that appear in said “Register of Powers”, and said officer is likewise empowered to issue “certificates of negation” upon the payment of three dollars ($3). Once the “Register of Powers” is integrated to the General Register of Notarial Competence created by §§ 2155—2166 of this title, known as the “Non-Contentious Notarial Matters Act”, the payment of fees for certificates of affirmation or negation of powers shall be five dollars ($5) as provided in the referred statute.
The payment of fees shall be made through internal revenue stamps, which shall be cancelled on the certification itself, or by any other means as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in coordination with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court or the person upon whom he/she delegates. The requirements of form and the mechanisms for issuing the referred certificate shall be those established by the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico through regulations.
History —May 8, 1937, No. 62, p. 185, § 8; Mar. 30, 1976, No. 19, p. 43, § 6; Dec. 13, 2007, No. 196, § 23.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter I - Creation of Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1103) › § 1101 - Short title

This chapter shall be known as the “Organic Act of the Corrections Administration.”
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 1; July 18, 2001, No. 60, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter I - Creation of Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1103) › § 1102 - Creation

The Correctional Administration is hereby created.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 2, retroactive to July 1, 1974.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter I - Creation of Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1103) › § 1103 - Administrator; appointment; salary

The Administration shall be under the direction of a Correctional Administrator who shall be appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate of Puerto Rico. The salary of the Administrator shall be sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) annually.
The Administrator shall appoint an Assistant Administrator. In the event of absence or temporary incapacity, or of death, resignation or removal of the Administrator, the Assistant Administrator shall exercise the powers and duties of the Administrator, as Acting Administrator, until the return of the Administrator or until his substitute is appointed and qualified.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 3, retroactive to July 1, 1974.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter II - Functions and Powers (§§ 1111 — 1113) › § 1111 - Purpose

The Correctional Administration shall administer an integrated correctional system and shall set standards to structure more effective individualized treatment by establishing or extending rehabilitation programs in the community.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 4; July 10, 1978, No. 21, p. 420, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter III - Correctional Population Evaluations (§ 1121) › § 1121 - Periodical evaluations, purpose

All of the convicts for felonies shall be submitted to periodic evaluations for the purposes of:
(a) Knowing and analyzing their social, physical, emotional and mental state and their criminal backgrounds, and identifying their capabilities, interests, motivations, controls and limitations, for the purpose of classifying them and determining the plan of action to be taken in each case, in agreement with the individualized treatment and public safety principles framed within the purposes of this chapter.
(b) The periodical evaluations provided in this section shall be carried out in the manner established hereinbelow:
(1) Minimum custody inmates shall be reviewed every twelve (12) months.
(2) Medium custody inmates shall be reviewed every twelve (12) months.
(3) Maximum custody inmates shall be reviewed every six (6) months, after the first year of sentence under the maximum custody classification has been served.
The procedure to be followed shall be in accordance with the provisions established in § 1112(c) of this title.
(c) Carrying out these evaluations by the treatment staff or by those specialists that the Correctional Administration deems appropriate to contract or recruit in order to offer evaluation, consultation, and advisory services and treatment.
(d) Obtaining these services from other public or private agencies in the community, pursuant to the powers granted in § 1112(o) of this title.
(e) Making these evaluations, at the request of the court or when the agency’s treatment staff deems it appropriate, in the case of persons convicted for misdemeanors.
(f) Explaining to the member of the correctional population the purpose and the results of the evaluations performed, with the exception of such information which has been determined as confidential, through the regulations to such effect.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 7; July 10, 1978, No. 21, p. 420, § 1; July 18, 2001, No. 60, § 5; May 19, 2006, No. 102, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter IV - Correctional Officer Corps (§§ 1126 — 1127d) › § 1127 - Compensation to survivors of custody officers who die in the line of duty

Upon the death of each member of the Custody Officers Corps of the Corrections Administration in honorable active service, in the line of duty or as a result thereof, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall pay a compensation in the amount of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) to the surviving spouse and minor children, who are full time students or disabled, or in absence thereof, to the dependent ascendants.
History —Aug. 19, 1996, No. 140, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter IV - Correctional Officer Corps (§§ 1126 — 1127d) › § 1127a - Surviving spouse

For purposes of this section “surviving spouse” shall mean the person married to the decedent at the moment of his/her demise.
History —Aug. 19, 1996, No. 140, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter IV - Correctional Officer Corps (§§ 1126 — 1127d) › § 1127b - Compensation

In compliance with subsection (a) of this section, if the surviving spouse concurs with minors, full-time students or disabled children of the decease member of the Custody Officers Corps, each part shall receive fifty percent (50%) of the compensation.
In the absence of the surviving spouse, the full one hundred percent (100%) of the compensation shall correspond to the minors, full-time students or disabled children. In absence of all of the above, the same one hundred percent (100%) shall correspond to the ascendants of the decedent, provided they were his/her dependents.
History —Aug. 19, 1996, No. 140, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter IV - Correctional Officer Corps (§§ 1126 — 1127d) › § 1127c - Authorized payment

The granting of the compensation payment authorized by virtue of this section shall be separate from any other benefit or compensation to which any of the other persons specified in §§ 1127–1127b of this title are entitled.
History —Aug. 19, 1996, No. 140, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter IV - Correctional Officer Corps (§§ 1126 — 1127d) › § 1127d - Approval

The Corrections Administrator, with the approval of the Secretary of Corrections and Rehabilitation, shall approve the rules and regulations needed for the implementation of §§ 1127—1127d of this title.
History —Aug. 19, 1996, No. 140, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter V - Regulation of Personnel (§§ 1131 — 1131a) › § 1131 - Personnel system

The Administration shall establish an Individual Administrator, based on the merit principle. It shall include two employee categories: (1) career employees, and (2) free appointment and removal employees, or to be exact, confidential employees. In addition, the necessary classifications may be created to hire personnel in emergency situations or during short terms. The Secretary shall implement and manage the Personnel System by regulations which shall be submitted to the approval of the Central Labor Advisory and Human Resources Administration Office or its substituting agency. Correctional Officers shall be career employees, except for those appointed to the ranks of Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel, who shall be employees of free appointment and removal. The Secretary shall create a salary schedule to govern correctional officers positions.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 9; Sept. 23, 2004, No. 465, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter VI - Permits to Members of the Correctional Population to Leave the Institutions (§§ 1136 — 1136b) › § 1136a - Program ineligibility

The following persons shall not be eligible to participate in the diversion or treatment and rehabilitation programs established by the Administration in accordance with the powers conferred by this chapter, nor in the Halfway House Programs:
(a) Any convict who is serving a sentence for the following crimes:
(1) Murder, rape, incest, sodomy or lascivious acts when the victim is under fourteen (14) years of age.
(2) Violations of §§ 2101 et seq. of Title 24, known as the “Puerto Rico Controlled Substances Act”, except for violations of § 2404 of Title 24.
(3) Violations of §§ 561 et seq. of Title 25, known as the “Puerto Rico Explosives Act”.
(b) Any person convicted for having committed a felony other than those included in subsection (a) of this section, until he/she has served at least twenty percent (20%) of the sentence of imprisonment in a penal institution, excluding any type of reduction and the Corrections Administrator determines this person is not a threat to the community.
(c) Any person convicted of a felony about whom a determination of aggravated recidivism or habitual recidivism has been made according to the provisions of Act No. 115 of July 22, 1974, known as the “Penal Code of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.”
(d) Any person convicted who has not satisfied the special penalty provided by § 3214 of Title 33 or its equivalent, or § 4695 of Title 33, part of the new Penal Code of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(e) Any person convicted of a felony or attempted felony committed with a firearm.
(f) Any person sentenced to the penalty of imprisonment under the new Penal Code of 2004, for a felony in all its degrees, or recidivism in all its degrees.
Inmates under the custody of the Administration with health problems and a prognosis of a short life expectancy and limiting physiological conditions may be excluded from the application of the provisions of this section. For this exclusion to apply, the Corrections Health Program must issue a recommendation to such effect accompanied by a medical certificate stating the prognosis of the inmate’s life expectancy. Furthermore, the inmates shall not constitute a danger to the community.
None of the provisions of this section impairs the duty of the Corrections Administration to provide treatment and rehabilitation pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and the Constitutional Rehabilitation Mandate Act, §§ 1611—1616 of this title.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, added as § 10-A on May 26, 1995, No. 49, § 2; July 29, 1998, No. 183, § 18; July 18, 2001, No. 60, § 10; June 3, 2004, No. 135, § 1; Sept. 15, 2004, No. 315, § 3; Sept. 29, 2004, No. 518, § 1; Mar. 2, 2007, No. 16, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter VI - Permits to Members of the Correctional Population to Leave the Institutions (§§ 1136 — 1136b) › § 1136b - Violations of the rules of the program; penalties

When a participant in a transition or treatment and rehabilitation program established by the Administration, including Half-way House Programs, violates the norms and conditions of the program, he/she shall be reconfined immediately in a correctional institution and steps shall be taken to revoke the benefit. Once the determination for revocation is final and binding, the period of time during which the member of the correctional population participated in the transition or treatment and rehabilitation program, including the Half-way House Program, shall not be accredited as time served of the sentence.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, added as § 10-B on May 26, 1995, No. 49, § 2; July 18, 2001, No. 60, § 11.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter VII - Transfer of Functions (§§ 1141 — 1145) › § 1141 - Transfer of programs and functions

All correctional programs which at the time this act takes effect are under the jurisdiction and administration of the Justice Department are hereby transferred to the Administration.
The functions, powers and duties imposed by §§ 402 et seq. of Title 3 on the Secretary of Justice, in relation to the treatment and rehabilitation of addicted and alcohol convicts are transferred to the Administrator, except those obligations imposed on the Secretary of Justice by subsection (a) of § 401 l of Title 3.
With regard to the treatment and rehabilitation of the Administration’s inmates in institutions under the jurisdiction of the Administration of Mental Health and Addiction Services, the Administrator shall follow the same procedure established under §§ 402 et seq. of Title 3 and in the regulations promulgated by both the Correctional Administration and said Department.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 11; July 10, 1978, No. 21, p. 420, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter VII - Transfer of Functions (§§ 1141 — 1145) › § 1142 - Probation; program

In connection with the probation program, the Governor shall appoint an officer who together with the one appointed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and the Correctional Administrator shall make the following determinations:
(a) To recommend the time when, by virtue of an Executive Order of the Governor, the probation program personnel, at present operating in the Judicial Branch, shall be transferred to the Administration.
(b) To determine the facilities, property, records and other material that should be transferred to the Correctional Administration as necessary to structure the probation program phase assigned to him by law.
(c) To make any other decision to insure the normal development of the probation programs as restructured by law.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 12, retroactive to July 1, 1974.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter VII - Transfer of Functions (§§ 1141 — 1145) › § 1143 - Additional transfers; standards; personnel

The following standards shall govern the functions and programs transferred to the Administration, in addition to the provisions of this chapter:
(a) There shall be transferred to the Administration and used for the aims and purposes of this chapter, any property or interest thereon; records, files and documents; appropriations and available funds or to be made available in the future, including superavits; stock, assets and credits of any kind; obligations and contracts of any type; licenses, permits and other authorizations and the personnel which, at the time the transfer is made effective, is rendering services in the activities or programs transferred.
(b) All employees transferred to the Correctional Administration, appointed under Act 345 of May 12, 1947, as amended, known as the “Personnel Act of Puerto Rico”, are guaranteed all vested rights under the aforesaid act or other applicable laws, as well as the rights, privileges, obligations and status with respect to any existing retirement, pension, savings and loan fund system or systems to which they were affiliated.
(c) All the regulations governing the operation of the functions and programs transferred, which are in force at the time the transfer goes into effect and which are compatible with this chapter, shall continue in force until they are substituted, amended or repealed by the Administrator.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 13; July 10, 1978, No. 21, p. 420, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter VII - Transfer of Functions (§§ 1141 — 1145) › § 1144 - Adoption of transitory measures

The Governor shall have power to adopt such transitory measures and make such decisions as are necessary to carry out the transfer ordered by this chapter without affecting the normal programmation of the functions transferred.
The Secretary of Justice, or the person he delegates, together with the officer designated by the Governor, shall make the determinations as to what personnel of the programs transferred shall be retained by the Department of Justice, on the ground that their administrative work also embraces other services or programs of the Department of Justice.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 14, retroactive to July 1, 1974.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter VII - Transfer of Functions (§§ 1141 — 1145) › § 1145 - Transfer by executive order

The Governor is authorized to transfer gradually to the Administration, by Executive Order, the functions and programs which are closely connected with those assigned herein to the Administration. The Governor shall send a copy of these executive orders to the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico in the regular or special session closest to the time the orders are issued.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 15, retroactive to July 1, 1974.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter VIII - Credit for Good Conduct, Work and Study (§§ 1161 — 1165) › § 1161 - Reduction in term of sentence

Any person sentenced before the effective date of the new Penal Code of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to a term of imprisonment in any institution, or who is enjoying a furlough granted pursuant to the provisions of this chapter or who is confined in any government or private entity as part of a rehabilitation program or is on parole, who observes good conduct and assiduity, shall be entitled to the following reductions in the term of his/her sentence to be computed from the date of his/her confinement in the institution in question or from the moment he/she is granted parole:
(a) For a sentence that does not exceed fifteen (15) years, twelve (12) days in each month, or
(b) for a sentence of fifteen (15) years or more, thirteen (13) days for each month.
This reduction shall be made by calendar month and if the sentence contains a fraction of a month, either at the beginning or at the end of the sentence, he/she shall be accredited two (2) days for every five (5) days or part thereof, contained in said fraction.
The reduction for good conduct and assiduity may be made for the time that any person accused of committing any public offense has been deprived of his/her freedom if he/she is sentenced for the same deeds for which he/she has suffered said deprivation of freedom.
Those convictions that entail the penalty of imprisonment for ninety-nine (99) years and those that have given rise to a determination of aggravated recidivism or habitual recidivism pursuant to subsections (b) and (c) of Section 62 of Act No. 115 of July 22, 1974, as amended, known as the “Penal Code of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico”, as well as those convictions imposed for lack of payment of a fine or that must be served in calendar years, are excluded from the credits provided in this section. Any person sentenced to serve a prison term under the new Penal Code of 2004 shall also be excluded from the credits provided in this section.
Provided, That any inmate sentenced to serve a prison term of ninety-nine (99) years before July 20, 1989, including any inmates whose conviction has given rise to a determination of aggravated recidivism or habitual recidivism, under the repealed Penal Code, shall be credited as set forth in subsection (c) of this section, in computing the maximum and the minimum term of their sentence.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 16; July 20, 1989, No. 27, p. 93, § 3; June 3, 2004, No. 135, § 2; Sept. 15, 2004, No. 315, § 4; July 27, 2009, No. 44, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter VIII - Credit for Good Conduct, Work and Study (§§ 1161 — 1165) › § 1162 - Credit for work, study or service

To any person sentenced for acts committed prior to or during the effective date of the new Penal Code of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to a term of imprisonment, in addition to the credits authorized in the preceding section, the corrections administrator may award credits at the rate of not more than five (5) days for each month in which the inmate is employed at some trade or is pursuing studies as part of an institutional plan, be it in the community at large or at the penal facility where he/she is serving his/her sentence, and is rendering services at the penal institution during the first year of imprisonment. Credit of up to seven (7) days per month may be granted for each subsequent year.
If the work or service rendered by the inmates is in the agricultural field, the Corrections Administrator shall award monthly credits up to a total of not more than seven (7) days during the first year of imprisonment, and up to a total of not more than ten (10) days a month during the periods of imprisonment subsequent to the first year.
The abovementioned credits may be awarded during the time any person accused of any public offense had been deprived of his/her freedom, if he/she is sentenced for the same acts for which he/she may have been deprived of his/her freedom, subject to the provisions of the preceding paragraphs.
The credits provided may also be awarded on account of exceptionally meritorious services or the discharge of highly important duties in connection with institutional functions.
In the case of persons sentenced to terms of imprisonment for crimes committed under the new Penal Code of 2004, the Corrections Administrator may grant credits at the rate of one day per month in which the inmate is employed or is following studies or rendering services at the penal institution or for exceptionally meritorious or highly important services.
Provided, That any inmate sentenced to serve a prison term of ninety-nine (99) years before July 20, 1989, including any inmate whose conviction has given rise to a determination of aggravated recidivism or habitual recidivism, both situations pursuant to the repealed Penal Code, shall be credited in accordance with the provisions of this section.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 17; July 10, 1978, No. 21, p. 420, § 1; June 4, 1980, No. 102, p. 331, § 1; July 20, 1989, No. 27, p. 93, § 3; Nov. 30, 1989, No. 7, p. 552, § 1; Sept. 15, 2004, No. 315, § 5; July 27, 2009, No. 44, § 2; Dec. 29, 2009, No. 208, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter VIII - Credit for Good Conduct, Work and Study (§§ 1161 — 1165) › § 1163 - Punishment for bad conduct

Any bad conduct shall be punished by reducing or cancelling the credits for good conduct, and if it is repetitive or of a serious nature, the person shall be submitted to a greater reduction, or the partial or total cancellation of credits.
No later than one hundred twenty (120) days from the effective date of this act, the Administrator shall adopt regulations for the granting, enjoyment, reduction and cancellation of the credits provided in § 1161 of this title, which shall establish the following, among others:
(a) The inmate’s behaviour that constitutes good conduct, whose continued observance or assiduity shall lead to the granting and enjoyment of these credits;
(b) those acts perpetrated by the inmate that constitute bad conduct, classified as to how serious and grave the acts are and the sanction that they entail, which will include admonishing, reduction or partial or total cancellation of the credits;
(c) the inmate’s conduct evaluation system that leads to granting, enjoyment, suspension, reduction and cancellation of the credits;
(d) the sanctions that will be imposed for repeated bad conduct, and
(e) the procedure to be used for the granting, enjoyment, suspension, reduction and cancellation of credits, that guarantees due process of law, and to orient the inmates on the scope of the credit system.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 18; July 20, 1989, No. 27, p. 93, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter VIII - Credit for Good Conduct, Work and Study (§§ 1161 — 1165) › § 1164 - Credits in municipal jails

Those serving sentences in municipal jails, who accept the work assigned to them, within or outside the jail, and who at the same time observe good conduct, shall be entitled to a credit in their sentence of one day for each five (5) or fraction of over two (2) days.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 19, retroactive to July 1, 1974.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter VIII - Credit for Good Conduct, Work and Study (§§ 1161 — 1165) › § 1165 - Regulation of credits

The Administrator is hereby authorized to adopt regulations regarding the granting, cancellation and restitution of credits for good conduct, work and studies or for exceptionally meritorious or highly important services according to this chapter and the norms provided in the new Penal Code of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
In order to, be eligible for the benefits of credits for good conduct, work and study, the convict must have satisfied the special penalty established in Section 49-C of Act No. 115 of July 22, 1974.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 20; July 10, 1978, No. 21, p. 420, § 1; July 29, 1998, No. 183, § 19; Sept. 15, 2004, No. 315, § 6.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter IX - Compensation to Members of the Correctional Population for Work Accidents (§§ 1181 — 1186) › § 1181 - Application of Workmen’s Accident Compensation Law to members of the correctional population

The provisions of §§ 1 et seq. of Title 11, known as the “Work Accident Compensation Act”, are hereby extended to occupational accidents and diseases which, pursuant to said sections, are compensable and are sustained by the employed member of the correctional populations, as authorized by this chapter.
Likewise, the Work Accident Compensation Act, shall cover all the members of the correctional population, assigned to work or projects carried out under the Administration of the Work and Training Enterprises Corporation (C.E.A.T., Spanish acronym.)
The entity using the member of the correctional population shall prepare the accident report in duplicate within the term provided by law and shall remit a copy to the Administrator. In case of injuries requiring any type of specialized treatment, which cannot be offered conveniently at the institution, the Administrator shall authorize the confinement of the injured person in a hospital designated by the Administrator of the State Insurance Fund, or in the one elected by mutual agreement between the Administrator of the State Insurance Fund.
The responsibility of the custody of the member of the correctional population while he/she receives treatment shall correspond to the Administration.
No compensation for temporary disability (per diems) shall be paid to the member of the correctional population during the time he/she is in prison. These per diems may only be received by those who are released before their disability has ceased and while they are discharged. Payments for compensation for permanent, partial, or total disability shall be made in behalf of the member of the correctional population, but shall be remitted for the corresponding legal purposes to the Administrator, during imprisonment.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 21; July 18, 2001, No. 60, § 13.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter IX - Compensation to Members of the Correctional Population for Work Accidents (§§ 1181 — 1186) › § 1182 - Services of members of the correctional population; salary base

The entities that use the services of the members of the correctional population shall be bound to include them in their payroll, for the purposes of this chapter, on the basis of the wages received, which for the purposes of the payroll report to be rendered annually to the Administrator of the State Insurance Fund, shall not be less than eight dollars a week or what is otherwise established in the future by the Administrator of the State Insurance Fund by legal authority. It shall be the obligation of these entities to annually include in their expense budget, sufficient funds to defray the payment of the corresponding premiums for the use of members of the correctional population.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 22; July 18, 2001, No. 60, § 14.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter IX - Compensation to Members of the Correctional Population for Work Accidents (§§ 1181 — 1186) › § 1183 - Detailed record of accidents; legal representation

The Administrator shall keep a detailed record of the occupational accidents and diseases suffered by the members of the correctional population while engaged in the activities provided in this chapter and of their claims. He/she shall also take steps to obtain the designation of a legal representative to represent the member of the correctional population in any procedure or appearance that may be necessary, before the Administrator of the State Insurance Fund, the Industrial Commission or the courts, that are connected with the claim to which the member of the correctional population may be entitled under the provisions of the “Work Accidents Compensation Act”. The term to appeal the decisions of the Administrator of the State Insurance Fund, or the orders of the Industrial Commission, shall begin to be counted from the date of notice to the injured person, through the Administration.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 23; July 18, 2001, No. 60, § 15.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter IX - Compensation to Members of the Correctional Population for Work Accidents (§§ 1181 — 1186) › § 1184 - Member of the correctional population killed in labor accident; determination of beneficiaries

To determine who the beneficiaries of a deceased member of the correctional population as a result of a labor accident shall be, the same standards that apply for the cases of other workmen or employees shall be used. In the absence of persons who, as a matter of fact, depend of the member of the correctional population at the time of his/her death, there shall be considered as dependents such relatives that depended on the deceased before he/she began to serve his/her sentence, if they qualify on the other counts and are needy persons. In the absence thereof, such other persons who although they never had depended on the deceased inmate, are indigent on the moment of his/her death, shall be entitled.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 24; July 18, 2001, No. 60, § 16.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter IX - Compensation to Members of the Correctional Population for Work Accidents (§§ 1181 — 1186) › § 1185 - Regulations—Application of Workmen’s Accident Compensation Law

The Manager of the State Insurance Fund is hereby authorized to promulgate the necessary regulations to carry out the purposes of this chapter in whatever concerns the application of §§ 1 et seq. of Title 11.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 25, retroactive to July 1, 1974.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter IX - Compensation to Members of the Correctional Population for Work Accidents (§§ 1181 — 1186) › § 1186 - Regulations—Administration’s own procedure

The Administrator is authorized to promulgate the necessary regulations to structure the provisions of this chapter in whatever concerns the Administration’s own procedure.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 26, retroactive to July 1, 1974.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter X - Halfway Houses (§§ 1201 — 1206) › § 1201 - Purposes of halfway houses

The Administrator shall establish halfway houses (hereinafter “houses”) where members of the correctional population may be transferred to enable their return to the free community pursuant to the provisions of § 1136a of this title.
The members of the correctional population shall reside in said houses to expedite the development of special programs in the free community such as vocational and occupational counseling, psychological services, counseling on family problems, counseling prior to release, job interviews and job placement through the latter, after having served their sentence or being released on parole, in applicable cases, and any other rehabilitation programs.
The design of the facilities of these houses that are needed to offer such services shall be undertaken with the advice of the Mental Health and Addiction Services Administration, attached to the Department of Health to guarantee that even though the necessary security measures are maintained, the prevailing environment shall be propitious for their psychosocial health thus enabling the rehabilitation of the client.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 27; June 4, 1980, No. 102, p. 331, § 1; May 26, 1995, No. 49, § 3; July 18, 2001, No. 60, § 17.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter X - Halfway Houses (§§ 1201 — 1206) › § 1202 - Transfer of convicts

The Administrator may order the transfer of the inmate to the Halfway House after taking into account the presentencing report, if any, the social background, psychological diagnosis, reports on social interviews, evidence of good conduct, or any other pertinent evidence.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 28; July 10, 1978, No. 21, p. 420, § 1; June 4, 1980, No. 102, p. 331, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter X - Halfway Houses (§§ 1201 — 1206) › § 1203 - Contribution by resident members of the correctional population; funds

The members of the correctional population residing in the homes shall contribute a certain amount of money on an individual basis, pursuant to the regulations approved by the Administrator. The funds obtained from said contributions shall be covered into a special fund, which is hereby created and designated “Half-way House Development Fund.” The money available in the fund created by Section 7 of Act No. 8 of April 17, 1970 shall also be deposited in this fund.
The money covered into the Special Fund created in this section shall be deposited in the Commonwealth Treasury.
The financial resources of the Fund created in this section shall be used for the Development of the Half-way Houses Program, the individual and collective benefit of the members of the correctional population themselves, as provided by the Half-way Houses Regulations.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 29; July 10, 1978, No. 21, p. 420, § 1; July 18, 2001, No. 60, § 18.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter X - Halfway Houses (§§ 1201 — 1206) › § 1204 - Donations received; special fund

The Administrator is authorized to accept, in the name of the government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, donations for the purpose of carrying out the programs of houses. In such cases where the donation is made in money, the amount received shall be deposited in the special fund established in § 1203 of this title to be used for the purposes provided in the donation.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 30, retroactive to July 1, 1974.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FOUR - Judiciary (§§ 1-3 — 2166) › PART V - Correction and Parole (§§ 1101 — 1646) › Chapter 81 - Corrections Administration (§§ 1101 — 1284) › Subchapter X - Halfway Houses (§§ 1201 — 1206) › § 1205 - Failure to return to institution

Any member of the correctional population who fails to return to the institution or returns after the hour indicated in on the permit granted, shall be subject to the provisions of § 1136 of this title.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 31; July 10, 1978, No. 21, p. 420, § 1; July 18, 2001, No. 60, § 19.