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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 741 - Increases in compensation

There is hereby directed the payment of such salary increases as may result from the revision of the various compensation plans applying to the officers and employees of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico rendering service in Puerto Rico, including the teaching personnel of the Department of Education and the officers and members of the Police of Puerto Rico. In the case of the officers and employees included within the competitive and noncompetitive services, there shall govern for the payment of the said increase either the compensation schedules in force at the time this act takes effect or those which may be approved by the Legislature. In the case of the public education teachers and in that of the officers and members of the Police, there shall govern either the compensation plans applicable to the said employees which are in force at the time this act takes effect or those which may be approved by the Legislature; Provided, That in the case of the rest of the employees included within the exempt service there shall be applied schedules equivalent to those used for similar positions included within the competitive and noncompetitive services; Provided, further, That no employee shall receive a salary lower than that which he is receiving under the provisions of Act No. 371 of 1952 at the time this act takes effect.
History —June 14, 1953, No. 69, p. 228, § 1, eff. July 1, 1953.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 742 - Increases in compensation—Excluded personnel

The increases provided for by §§ 741-745 of this title shall not be applicable to the members of the Legislature. Neither shall §§ 741-745 of this title be applicable to the officers and employees of: the Puerto Rico Ports Authority, the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company, the Corporation of Industries for the Blind, the Puerto Rico Agricultural Company, the Land Authority of Puerto Rico, the Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, the Puerto Rico Housing Authority, the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, the Isabela Irrigation Service, the Bank of Cooperatives of Puerto Rico, the Prison Industries Corporation of Puerto Rico, the telephone service personnel of the Puerto Rico Communications Authority, and the personnel of the University of Puerto Rico included within the exempt service established by Act No. 345 of May 12, 1947, excluding the personnel of the Agricultural Experiment Station and of the Agricultural Extension Service. §§ 741-745 of this title do not restrict the power of the above-mentioned public corporations and agencies to fix salaries and grant increases from their own funds within the norms established by the said public corporations.
History —June 14, 1953, No. 69, p. 228, § 2, eff. July 1, 1953.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 743 - Increases in compensation—Payment from special funds

Payment of the increases authorized by §§ 741-745 of this title shall, insofar as concerns officers and employees paid from special funds, be made chargeable to such funds. Should the sums available in any of these funds not be sufficient for making the payments provided for in sections 741-745 of this title, such payments shall, upon the previous authorization of the Governor or of the officer or employee to whom he may delegate, be made, to such extent as may be necessary, chargeable to the appropriation herein made.
History —June 14, 1953, No. 69, p. 228, § 3, eff. July 1, 1953.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 745 - Increases in compensation—Regulations; transfer of funds

The Director of the Office of Personnel shall prescribe such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary for the best application of §§ 741-745 of this title with regard to the officers and employees included within the competitive and noncompetitive services; Provided, That the rules and regulations applicable to the exempt service shall be prescribed in consultation with the Director of the Budget; Provided, further, That the Director of the Budget shall determine the manner in which the transfers of funds necessary by virtue of §§ 741-745 of this title shall be made.
History —June 14, 1953, No. 69, p. 228, § 5, eff. July 1, 1953.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 746 - Travel expenses of personnel and families

Whenever the various departments, agencies, instrumentalities, and public corporations of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico have funds available for travel, the chief or director of the government dependency may pay the travel expenses of any employee thereof and his family, via the most suitable and economical means of transportation, in the following cases:
(1) When such employee is residing in Puerto Rico and is transferred or appointed to work outside of Puerto Rico.
(2) When he is residing outside of Puerto Rico and is transferred or appointed to work in Puerto Rico.
(3) When he is residing outside of Puerto Rico and is transferred or appointed to work in another place outside of Puerto Rico.
Upon termination of employment, the employee shall be paid the necessary travel expenses to return to his domicile. Said expenses shall not exceed those required to return to the domicile he had at the time of making the original travel.
History —June 17, 1955, No. 73, p. 272, § 1; June 25, 1959, No. 69, p. 199, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 747 - Travel expenses of personnel and families—Expenses included; agreement to remain for 24 months; bond; family defined

The travel expenses referred to in § 746 of this title include, in addition to those of the transportation of the members of the family of the employee, the expenses entailed in the transportation of his personal effects and household belongings and the transportation cost of the furniture up to the sum of four thousand (4,000) dollars, but without including ornamental objects of any kind or livestock. Provided, That for the contracting and payment of these services of transportation of such furniture, the formal purchase procedures used by the department, instrumentality, agency or office requiring the transfer shall be followed. Provided, however, that the travel and transportation expenses authorized in said section shall not be paid unless the employee chosen for said position commits himself, in writing, to remain in the said position for a period of not less than twenty-four (24) months, from and after the date his appointment becomes effective, unless he is separated from his employment because of permanent physical disability or any other cause not attributable to the employee; and in the event that the employee fails to make good said promise, any sum of money disbursed by the government dependency in connection with the travel and transportation of the employee and his family shall be recovered from said employee as though it were a debt owed by the employee to the government dependency. The employee shall post bond satisfactory to the Secretary of the Treasury, conditioned upon the performance of that obligation. For the purposes of §§ 746-748 of this title the term “family” shall include the dependents who are living with the employee and who are to continue living with him and depending on him in his new place of residence.
History —June 17, 1955, No. 73, p. 273, § 2; June 25, 1959, No. 69, p. 199, § 2; May 19, 1977, No. 28, p. 52.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 748 - Travel expenses of personnel and families—Regulations

The Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico is hereby empowered to promulgate the regulations necessary for enforcing the provisions of §§ 746-748 of this title, which regulations shall have the force and effect of law as soon as they are approved by the Governor.
History —June 17, 1955, No. 73, p. 273, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 749 - Prizes for laudable services by public officers and employees; educational tours abroad

(a) The Governor of Puerto Rico, or the persons to whom he may delegate, are hereby authorized to establish a program of prizes for public officials and employees in recognition of the laudable services thereby rendered to the government.
(b) Prizes shall be awarded according to such rules as the Governor, or the persons whom he may delegate, may adopt.
(c) The prize or prizes awarded shall consist in granting the official or employee, at his/her choice, a cash amount or an authorization to participate in cultural trips within Puerto Rico or abroad, with expenses totally or partially defrayed by the Government; it being understood that the officials or employees who benefit from this section shall be at all times protected by the laws that protect the officials and employees of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico when travelling abroad on official business. In those cases that the prize is awarded as a posthumous recognition, the prize in cash shall be paid to the surviving spouse of the deceased official or employee or to his/her children.
(d) Officials and employees holding office or occupying positions in the agencies of the central administration, individual administrators and excluded agencies, as defined in §§ 1301 et seq. of this title, shall be eligible for these prizes. Municipal and legislative branch employees and officials shall also be eligible.
(e) Any prize awarded an official or employee shall be additional to his regular compensation, and shall be neither regarded as a part thereof nor subject to payment of income tax.
History —June 20, 1956, No. 66, p. 276, §§ 1-5; June 21, 1966, No. 96, p. 313, § 3; Apr. 26, 1972, No. 24, p. 48, § 1; May 27, 1980, No. 57, p. 150; May 31, 1998, No. 77, § 1, 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 750 - Educational tour program for public employees and teachers; loans by retirement systems

(a) The Board of Trustees of the Employees Retirement System of the Government of Puerto Rico and its Instrumentalities, and the Retirement System for the Judiciary of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Retirement Board of the System of Annuities and Pensions for Teachers, are authorized to invest a part of the available reserves of said Systems in facilitating the granting of loans for educational tours to employees, public officials, teachers, pensioners of the Annuities and Pensions Fund for the Teachers of Puerto Rico and pensioners of the Employees Retirement System of the Government of Puerto Rico and the Retirement System for the Judiciary of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(b) Each one of said Boards shall determine, from time to time, the amount of funds that each System shall apply to this type of investment. The Administrator of the Employees Retirement System of the Government of Puerto Rico and its Instrumentalities, and the Teachers’ Retirement Board, shall determine, by regulations, the pertinent conditions and procedures for the granting of the loans authorized by this section. These loans shall be amortized through monthly deductions from the employee’s salary or pension, as the case may be. The Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall pay to the corresponding system fifty percent (50%) of the interest on the loan made to the public employee or pensioner, as the case may be, to participate in such tours. If the public employee resigns his position in the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico within eighteen (18) months from the date he received the loan, he shall have to repay the Government the interest it paid thereon. The sum deemed necessary for such purposes shall be included each year in the General Budgetary Act.
(c) For the purposes of this section, “educational tour” shall mean any trip or excursion organized or approved by the Administrator of the Employees Retirement System of the Government of Puerto Rico and its Instrumentalities, or the Teachers’ Retirement Board, in behalf of public employees and pensioners, so that they may travel to foreign countries for rest, recreation or educational pursuits.
(d) The pensioners shall secure the loan with their retirement annuity. If said annuity is insufficient, the Administrator of the Employees Retirement System of the Government of Puerto Rico and its Instrumentalities or the Teachers’ Retirement Board, as the case may be, shall determine by regulations, the additional guarantees needed to secure the amount of the loan.
History —June 20, 1956, No. 72, p. 322, §§ 1-3; May 18, 1959, No. 8, p. 39, §§ 3-5; June 14, 1965, No. 22, p. 45, § 3; Apr. 26, 1974, No. 16, Part 1, p. 127; June 16, 1978, No. 57, p. 182, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 751 - Deductions for purchase of bonds

The Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico and every treasurer and paymaster of the agencies, authorities, instrumentalities and political subdivisions of the Government of Puerto Rico, are hereby authorized to deduct from the salary received by the employees and officials of the Government of Puerto Rico, its agencies, authorities, instrumentalities and political subdivisions, upon the previous authorization of such officials and employees, the amounts determined by them to be invested in savings bonds issued by the Government of the United States or by the Government of Puerto Rico.
History —June 19, 1958, No. 58, p. 131, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 752 - Deductions for purchase of bonds—Purchase

The amounts deducted under § 751 of this title shall be delivered to the Treasurer of the United States or to the Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico, as the case may be, for the purchase of the bonds referred to in said section.
History —June 19, 1958, No. 58, p. 131, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 753 - Deductions for purchase of bonds—Duties of withholding agency

The deduction from the salaries authorized hereby shall be made on the basis of voluntary authorization issued in writing by the officials and employees interested in acquiring said bonds; and it does not imply any responsibility whatsoever on the part of the Secretary of the Treasury and the treasurers or paymasters above referred to, with the exception of the ministerial duty of making the deductions from the monthly salaries received by said officials and employees and forwarding said deductions to the Treasurer of the United States or to the Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico, depending on the kind of bonds acquired.
History —June 19, 1958, No. 58, p. 131, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 754 - Deductions for purchase of bonds—Issuance of bond

The bonds acquired by the officials and employees mentioned herein shall be issued in the name of the employee or official acquiring them, or in the name of the person he may designate, and shall be sent directly to said employee or official, or to the person designated by him.
History —June 19, 1958, No. 58, p. 131, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 755a - Individual Retirement Account discounts—Authorization

Every employee of any public instrumentality may voluntarily authorize that a specific amount of his/her salary be withheld up to the maximum amount allowed by Act No. 91 of June 29, 1954, § 169, to deposit it in an individual retirement account. To such effects, the employee must complete and submit a salary withholding authorization form, in original and one copy, in which the amount to be withheld from his/her salary for each payroll period shall be specified under the employee’s signature, to the unit, division or personnel office of his/her respective agency.
The total payroll amount withheld authorized by the public employee shall not be withheld in the same payroll period and must be prorated based on the total number of payroll periods in which each fiscal year is divided. The public instrumentality for which the employee renders services, other than a Public Service Corporation, shall be responsible for remitting a copy of the salary withholding authorization form submitted by the latter in conjunction with a list or magnetic tape containing the names of employees to which discounts should be made and the amounts to be discounted to the Secretary of Treasury.
The amount discounted from employee’s salary for the individual retirement account shall be registered in the payroll of the public instrumentality in which the employee works and in the salary payment voucher or stub to be handed to the employee.
History —Aug. 11, 1991, No. 60, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1992.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 755b - Individual Retirement Account discounts—Deposit in selected banking entity

All amounts discounted from employee’s salary shall be remitted to the banking entity selected by the employee to have his/her individual retirement account by the Department of Treasury, according to provisions of § 755a of this title. The Department of Treasury shall remit the amounts discounted from employees’ salaries to the banking entity selected by each no later than the first fifteen (15) days that follow the date on which the salary discount was made effective. In case the public instrumentality should be a Public Service Corporation, the Executive Director of the Corporation shall remit the discounts authorized herein by the employee to the banking entity selected by the latter to hold his/her individual retirement account.
History —Aug. 11, 1991, No. 60, § 2, retroactive to July 1, 1991.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 755c - Individual Retirement Account discounts—Ruling act

The Individual Retirement Accounts created by §§ 755a et seq. of this title shall be regulated by provisions of Act No. 91 of June 29, 1954, § 169, and by regulations proclaimed by the Department of Treasury to regulate Individual Retirement Accounts.
History —Aug. 11, 1991, No. 60, § 3, retroactive to July 1, 1991.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 755d - Individual Retirement Account discounts—Definitions

For purposes of §§ 755a et seq. of this title, the following terms will be defined, indicated as follows:
(a) Public instrumentality.— Is that instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico which includes: Legislative Branch, Judicial Branch, departments, government agencies, boards, commissions and public corporations excluding municipalities.
(b) Banking entity.— Is that institution where an individual retirement account can be opened according to Act No. 91 of June 29, 1954, § 169, which includes: banks, savings associations, securities brokerage houses, trust companies, insurance companies, savings and credit cooperative federations and life insurance cooperatives.
History —Aug. 11, 1991, No. 60, § 4, retroactive to July 1, 1991.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 756 - Deductions for health plan payments

(a) The Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico, the public corporations of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the municipalities, and the retirement systems are hereby authorized to deduct from the salary of the employees or the pension of the retired ex-employees, as may correspond who have voluntarily availed themselves of complementary health plans which offer medical, surgical and hospitalization benefits in cases of catastrophic diseases such as cancer and heart diseases and who so request in writing from the agency or retirement system they belong to, the necessary amount to pay the total subscription cost of said plans.
(b) The premiums to be deducted from the employees and retired ex-employees of the agencies of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the retirement systems, as herein authorized, shall be placed by the Secretary of the Treasury at the disposal of the corresponding insurance companies. The premiums deducted from the employees of the public corporations and municipalities shall be placed by them at the disposal of the corresponding insurance companies.
History —May 30, 1972, No. 45, p. 102, §§ 1, 2; May 10, 1974, No. 36, Part 1, p. 182, §§ 2, 3; June 22, 1975, No. 44, p. 105, § 2, eff. 30 days after June 22, 1975.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 757 - Christmas bonus—Creation

Every officer or employee of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and of the Legislature, including those of the public corporations and municipalities, who hold or have held an office, position or employment of a regular or irregular character, shall be entitled to receive a Christmas bonus each year in which he has rendered services to the Government during at least six (6) months, in the case of a regular officer or employee, and nine hundred sixty (960) hours in the case of an irregular employee, within the period of twelve (12) months comprised from December 1 of the preceding year to November 30 of the year in which the bonus is granted. Provided that in neither of the two cases shall the services have had to be rendered consecutively. Payment shall be made not later than December 20 of each year.
Responsible for the payment of the bonus shall be the organization where the employee has rendered services as of November 30 of the year in which the bonus is granted, or, if he has been discharged from office prior to that date, the organization where he was rendering services at the time of his discharge.
For the effects of §§ 757-757f of this title, when the officer or employee is enjoying any kind of leave, with or without pay, he shall be considered as if he has been rendering services.
When an officer or employee suffers any injury or occupational disease which disables him temporarily to perform the duties inherent in his employment, the days in which he is absent by reason of his temporary disability shall be considered, for the purposes of determining the time of service required by §§ 757-757f of this title to be entitled to receive the Christmas bonus, as days of service rendered, provided said officer or employee has filed a claim with the State Insurance Fund, and this agency has determined that he may avail himself of the benefits established by §§ 1 et seq. of Title 11.
If an employee or officer dies after he has acquired his right to the bonus, as provided herein, said bonus shall be paid to his dependents.
History —June 12, 1969, No. 34, p. 57, § 1; July 10, 1971, No. 12, p. 628; May 25, 1972, No. 34, p. 74; July 23, 1974, No. 192, Part 2, p. 73.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 757a - Christmas bonus—Amount

The Christmas Bonus for 1997 shall be equal to four point five percent (4.5%) of the annual salary of the official or employee, and from 1998 henceforth shall be equal to six percent (6%) of the annual salary of the official or employee. From 1999 henceforth, the Christmas Bonus shall be equal to six point twenty-five percent (6.25%) of the annual salary of the official or employee. From the year 2001 henceforth, it shall be equal to seven point eighty-one twenty-five percent (7.8125) of the annual salary of the official or employee. The Christmas Bonus in 2003 and henceforth shall be equal to twelve point five percent (12.5%) of the annual salary of the official or employee. For the purposes of determining the amount of the Christmas Bonus, the annual salary shall be deemed to be the total salary earned by the official or employee up to the amount of eight thousand dollars ($8,000) during the twelve (12) months preceding December 1st of the year in which the bonus is granted. Services rendered for fifteen (15) days or more during a month shall be considered as a month of service.
In the case [of] a public official or employee who holds a regular career office, who works as [a] transitory or irregular employee, and who is or has been on military leave with or without pay during the calendar year, for the purposes of the amount of the Christmas Bonus, the annual salary shall be considered to be the total salary earned by the official or employee during the twelve (12) months preceding December 1st of the year in which the bonus is granted in which he or she has worked as employee and has not been activated, up to the amount of eight thousand dollars ($8,000).
Provided, That in the case of municipalities, the increase in the amount of the Christmas Bonus shall be adjusted pursuant to the financial capability of the same and pursuant to § 4566 of Title 21 part of the “Autonomous Municipalities Act”.
History —June 12, 1969, No. 34, p. 57, § 2; Aug. 20, 1997, No. 92, § 1; Aug. 17, 2001, No. 116, § 1; July 31, 2003, No. 173, § 1; Dec. 6, 2003, No. 297, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 757b - Christmas bonus—Requirements

The right granted to the officers or employees of the different municipalities in § 757 of this title shall be subject to the following conditions:
(1) That the municipality authorizes, by a municipal ordinance, the granting of a Christmas bonus to its officers or employees, and it so notifies with a certified copy of same to the Secretary of the Treasury on or before August 1 of the year in which the bonus will be paid. The municipality shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the name and the salaries earned by the officers or employees entitled to the bonus. This certificate shall be subject to revision by the Secretary of the Treasury.
(2) That from the municipal ordinance authorizing the granting of the Christmas bonus there be excluded, as beneficiary of the bonus, the Mayor of the municipality concerned.
(3) That the municipality contribute one-half of the cost of the bonus to be paid to its officers or employees each year.
(4) In the case of those municipalities with a budget of five hundred thousand (500,000) dollars or less, which show to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Treasury that they are economically unable to contribute the corresponding 50%, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to place at the disposal of the municipality the proportionate part determined or the totality of the amount as may be necessary for the purposes of §§ 757-757f of this title.
If the aforementioned conditions are complied with, the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to place at the disposal of the municipality concerned, from unencumbered funds in the Commonwealth Treasury, the necessary sum to match the municipal contribution without this sum exceeding one-half (½) of the cost of the bonus authorized by § 757a hereof.
History —June 12, 1969, No. 34, p. 57, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 757c - Christmas bonus—Funds in general budget

The necessary funds to defray the cost of the bonuses for the officers or employees of the Legislature and such agencies whose operating expense budgets are chargeable to the General Fund shall be set aside annually in the Joint Resolution of the General Budget. The bonuses of the officers or employees of the public corporations and other public organizations, excluding the municipalities whose budgets are not financed from the General Fund, shall be paid from their own funds or from the special funds from which are defrayed the operating expenses of such organizations.
History —June 12, 1969, No. 34, p. 57, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 757d - Christmas bonus—Exclusions

The provisions of §§ 757—757f of this title shall not apply in those cases in which the officials or employees receive Christmas Bonuses by virtue of collective bargaining agreements, including bargaining agreements under Act No. 45 of February 14, 1998, as amended, or administrative provisions to that effect, except in the cases in which the amount of the Bonus to which they are entitled through such bargaining agreements or administrative provisions turns out to be less than the amount provided for by §§ 757—757f of this title, in which case they shall receive the amount needed to complete the amount of the Christmas Bonus provided for by §§ 757—757f of this title.
History —June 12, 1969, No. 34, p. 57, § 5; July 31, 2003, No. 173, § 1; Dec. 6, 2003, No. 298, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 757e - Christmas bonus—Deductions exempted

The Christmas bonus shall not be subject to deductions which are regularly made by reason of retirement and savings.
History —June 12, 1969, No. 34, p. 57, § 6.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 757f - Christmas bonus—Exceptions

The provisions of §§ 757-757f of this title shall not be applicable to members of the Legislature, to the Governor of Puerto Rico, to members of the Governor’s Cabinet and to heads of agencies and instrumentalities of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
History —June 12, 1969, No. 34, p. 57, § 7.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 757g - Summer bonus—Creation

Every person who is receiving a pension or benefit under §§ 233–246 of Title 4, shall be entitled to receive a Summer Bonus equal to one hundred dollars ($100), which shall be paid not later than July 15 of each year. If there were more than one beneficiary entitled to a pension upon the death of the active or retired participant, the Bonus shall be distributed, pro rata, among all the beneficiaries. The participants of the Judiciary Retirement System of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall be excluded from the Summer Bonus benefit granted under this section.
History —June 13, 2001, No. 37, §§ 1—4, eff. July 1, 2001; Apr. 4, 2013, No. 3, § 33; Dec. 24, 2013, No. 162, § 14.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 757h - Repealed. Act Dec. 24, 2013, No. 160, § 2(a), effective December 24, 2013

History —June 13, 2001, No. 38, §§ 1—4, eff. July 1, 2001; Repealed. Act.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 757i - Direct deposit of salaries

(a) It is hereby provided that, as of July 1, 1998, every person appointed to hold a position as a regular or confidential employee or official in the Government of Puerto Rico, its agencies, corporations and instrumentalities, except for those municipal governments that do not provide direct deposit services, shall receive his/her salary payment through direct biweekly deposit to a bank account in the financial institution designated by the employee, unless he/she requests to receive the same in check.
(b) The direct biweekly deposit of all salary payments to the employee shall be made pursuant to the requirements established by the agency in which he/she shall take office and to the standards provided through regulations by the Secretary of the Department of the Treasury regarding direct deposit through electronic transfer.
History —Sept. 24, 1998, No. 268, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 757j - Medications bonus—Grant

(a) Any person who is receiving a pension under §§ 233—246 of Title 4, shall be entitled to receive each year a Medications Bonus equal to one hundred dollars ($100), starting in 2003, which shall be paid not later than July 15 of each year.
(b) The Medications Bonus set forth herein shall be tax exempt.
(c) Any person who is receiving a pension or benefit under the provisions of §§ 786-1 through 786-12 of this title, known as the “Retirement Savings Account Program”, shall be expressly excluded from the provisions of this section. Likewise, the participants of the Judiciary Retirement System of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall be excluded from the Medications Bonus benefit granted under this section.
(d) The resources to defray the cost of the Medications Bonus, with respect to the pensioners of the Central Government and pensioner judges, shall be appropriated in the General Budget of Expenses of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The public corporations and municipalities whose employees are covered by this section shall provide the funds to defray the Medications Bonus set forth by this section the pensioners of their corporation or municipality.
History —June 27, 2003, No. 155, §§ 1—4; Apr. 4, 2013, No. 3, § 34; Dec. 24, 2013, No. 162, § 15.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 31 - Compensation and Benefits of Government Personnel (§§ 721 — 757k) › § 757k - Elimination of the payment of per diems

(a) No member of the governing board or body of a public corporation who is not a consumer representative shall be entitled to receive payment on account of per diems, wages, emoluments, or any other allowance for discharging his duties as a member of the Board of Directors or governing body in question. This prohibition does not prevent a public corporation from acquiring and offering reasonably priced meals to members of its governing body during, immediately before, or after a properly convened meeting. Consumer representatives who are members of a governing board or body of a public corporation shall be entitled to receive the payment of per diems as authorized by the enabling acts of their respective corporations.
(b) This section shall have a prospective effect and shall not affect the payment of per diems, wages, emoluments, or any other allowances that have been claimed or whose payment had become payable on demand prior to the approval of this act. The provisions of subsection (a) of this section shall have the effect of repealing any provision of an act or regulations in effect that provide for the payment of per diems, wages, emoluments, or any other allowances to members of the Board of Directors or any governing body of a public corporation for discharging their duties, obligations, or responsibilities.
History —July 23, 2013, No. 72, §§ 2, 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 33 - Retirement of Government Personnel (§§ 761 — 830q) › § 761 - Employees Retirement System—Creation; effective and operative dates; coordination with federal Social Security

A retirement and benefit system to be designated as the “Retirement System for Employees of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico”, which shall be considered a trust, is hereby created. The funds of the System herein created shall be used and applied, as provided in §§ 761-788 of this title, for the benefit of the participating members of its membership, their dependents and beneficiaries, for the payment of retirement and disability annuities, death benefits and annuities, and other benefits, upon meeting the requirements set forth hereinafter, in order to achieve economy and efficiency in the administration of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
The system shall be established as of the effective date of this act, and become operational on January 1, 1952, date on which the contributions and benefits shall become effective, as provided in §§ 761-788 of this title. The period from the effective date of this act to January 1, 1952, shall constitute the period of organization of the System. January 1, 1952, shall be known as the “operative date of the system”. In the case of public enterprises and municipalities, the operative date shall be the date on which their participation in the system begins. As of the effective date fixed in the modification of the agreement entered into between the agency in charge, the Secretary of Health, and the Secretary of Education, pursuant to the provisions of §§ 813-819 of this title; the benefits of §§ 766, 766a, 766d—774, 780, 781, 783, 785 and 786 of this title shall be coordinated with the benefits of Title II of the United States Social Security Act. In no case shall the combined payments of annuities of the Social Security and the Retirement System to participants under Chapter 2 of this Act shall be less than the annuity that would have corresponded to the System participant under Chapter 2, in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Retirement benefits provided under Chapters 3 and 5 of this Act shall not be coordinated with the benefits of Title II of the United States Social Security Act, except as it may apply under the provisions of Chapter 5.
—May 15, 1951, No. 447, p. 1298, § 1; June 20, 1956, No. 70, p. 292, § 2; Apr. 22, 1959, No. 2, p. 4, § 2; May 30, 1970, No. 62, p. 164; Feb. 28, 1972, No. 5, p. 7, § 1; June 20, 1972, No. 24, p. 421, § 2; May 21, 1992, No. 10, § 1; renumbered as § 1-101 and amended on Sept. 24, 1999, No. 305, § 3; Sept. 15, 2004, No. 296, §§ 1, 2; April 4, 2013, No. 3, § 1, eff. July 1, 2013.
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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 33 - Retirement of Government Personnel (§§ 761 — 830q) › § 761a - Employees Retirement System—Benefits for the Employees of the System

This Act shall consist of five chapters. Chapter 1 shall contain the provisions related to the creation of the System. Chapter 2 shall contain the provisions related to the retirement benefits program defined for the employees who enrolled in the System before January 1, 2000. Those employees who enrolled in the system before January 2000, shall only enjoy the benefits provided in Chapters 2, 4, and 5 and shall not be entitled to any other benefit provided by this Act, unless, pursuant to the provisions of Section 3-102, they choose to enroll in the Retirement Savings Account Program. Chapter 3 shall contain the provisions related to the Retirement Savings Account Program. Participants of the Retirement Savings Account Program shall only enjoy the benefits provided in Chapters 3, 4, and 5 of this Act, and shall not be entitled to any other benefit provided under this Act. Chapter 4 shall contain the provisions related to the administration of the System and the investment of the System’s funds. Chapter 5 of this Act shall contain the provisions related to the Defined Contribution Hybrid Program which shall apply to all employees participating in the System as of July 1, 2013. The provisions of Chapters 4 and 5 shall only apply to employees participating in the Defined Contribution Hybrid Program, except as otherwise provided in this Act. The provisions of Chapters 1, 2, and 3 shall remain in effect to preserve the code of laws applicable to all transactions carried out or to be carried out on or before June 30, 2013, to preserve those sections whose provisions, along with Chapter 5, shall apply, as specifically provided herein, and to preserve the definitions of terms applicable to Chapter 5 of this Act.
History —May 15, 1951, No. 447, p. 1298, added as § 1-102 on Sept. 24, 1999, No. 305, § 4; Apr. 4, 2013, No. 3, § 2, eff. July 1, 2013.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 33 - Retirement of Government Personnel (§§ 761 — 830q) › § 762 - Employees Retirement System—Superseded pension funds or plans

Beginning January 1, 1952, the System herein created shall supersede and take the place of the pension funds or plans now constituted and operating under and in pursuance of the following acts:
Act No. 70, approved May 3, 1931, as subsequently amended.
Act No. 23, approved July 16, 1935, as subsequently amended.
Act No. 155, approved May 9, 1938.
The pension funds herein above named shall be merged into and become part of the System herein created and such System shall be construed to be a continuation of the said pension funds which it shall supersede and replace. All moneys, securities and other assets of each of the said superseded pension funds and all books, accounts, properties, files and records, shall be transferred on the operative date or as soon as possible thereafter by the Board of Trustees of each of such superseded pension funds, and the Administrator of the System is hereby authorized and empowered to receive the same, to become the property of the said System, and thereupon each such superseded pension fund shall cease to exist.
All annuities, pensions and other benefits granted prior to the operative date shall from and after the said operative date be paid by the System herein created, according to the acts named above.
All amounts deducted and withheld from the salaries or compensation of the participants of the superseded pension funds shall be credited to the said participants who shall become members of the System if they are in active service, or if not, then when they enter into active service.
All claims for annuities, pensions, benefits, refunds or other benefits against the superseded pension funds, which may be pending on the operative date of the System, shall be allowed or disallowed by the Administrator according to the provisions of the respective superseded acts. Such claims as are allowed shall be paid by the System.
History —May 15, 1951, No. 447, p. 1298, § 2; June 19, 1954, No. 73, p. 374, § 1; renumbered as § 1-103 on Sept. 24, 1999, No. 305, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE THREE - Executive (§§ 1 — 9311) › Chapter 33 - Retirement of Government Personnel (§§ 761 — 830q) › § 765a - Employees Retirement System—Payment and credit of uncomputed creditable services

(a) Any payment for uncomputed creditable services shall be made while the member is in active service and shall include the corresponding interest at the rate determined by the Board, from the date of the total payment thereof if the payment is made in cash, or to the date in which the administrator grants a payment plan.
In the case of military service in the Armed Forces or while pursuing studies totally or partially paid with funds provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs of the Government of the United States, formerly the Veterans Administration, the rate of interest to be paid shall be based at a simple interest rate of six percent (6%) per annum based on the lesser of the salary earned when entering government service or that received when entering into active service in the Armed Forces or on the date of their discharge therefrom.
In the case of any president or vice-president who has served in organizations or associations which represent police officers and civilian employees of the Puerto Rico Police until June 30, 1966, the interest to be paid shall be based at a simple interest rate of six percent (6%) per annum based at the salary earned while working for said organizations or associations at the time the accreditation of the services was requested.
(b) Any participant may request that the Administrator grant him a payment plan in order to cover the cost of uncomputed creditable services under §§ 761 et seq. of this title. These payment plans shall entail the imposition of the corresponding interest, and may be granted for over sixty (60) months, as established by the Board through regulations. Any payment plan shall be settled before requesting a pension for age, years of service or non-occupational disability. If a participant does not complete a payment plan, he shall receive partial credit of time equivalent to the paid services. In the event that a participant is involuntarily separated from service without having covered the total cost of the uncomputed services, he may continue making direct payments to the System until said cost is paid.
(c) The Administrator may grant to any participant that so requests it, a special personal loan for the global payment of the uncomputed creditable services. This special personal loan shall not be renewable and shall include the corresponding interest. The granting of these special personal loans shall be subject to the norms and conditions established by the Board through regulations. Credits for the uncomputed services covered by a special personal loan shall be recognized and credited as soon as the Administrator grants the loan.
History —May 15, 1951, No. 447, p. 1298, added as § 5A on May 21, 1992, No. 10, § 5; Aug. 12, 1995, No. 184, § 2; June 10, 1996, No. 53, § 41; renumbered as § 1-107 on Sept. 24, 1999, No. 305, § 8; Sept. 15, 2004, No. 296, § 4.