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2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIFTEEN - Sports and Parks (§§ 1 — 2020) › Subtitle 3 - Public Spectacles (§§ 2001 — 2020) › Chapter 201 - Public Events Promoters (§§ 2001 — 2007) › § 2001 - Definitions

(a) Sponsor. — Company or registered trademark that, in order to promote its product, contributes, donates, or pays the public performance promoter to organize and hold the public event.
(b) Puerto Rico Internal Revenue Code of 1994, as amended. — Sections 8006 et seq. of Title 13.
(c) Public spectacle. — Shall mean any public event, concert of song, musical performance, dance performance, sporting event, comedy, or drama, presented at a theater, coliseum, hotel, convention hall or other location, whether closed or open, private or public, where the public is charged admission.
(d) Bond. — Money deposit which assures that the public event will be held on the date and at the time advertised.
(e) License. — Authorization issued by the Public Performance Registration Office to practice the profession of public performance promoter in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(f) Public performance promoter. — Natural [or] juridical person, whether local or foreign, who promotes or organizes a public performance to be held, which entails the search for a location and the entering into contracts, and is in charge of its administrative and advertising phases.
History —Sept. 3, 1996, No. 182, § 2, eff. 1 year after Sept. 3, 1996.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIFTEEN - Sports and Parks (§§ 1 — 2020) › Subtitle 3 - Public Spectacles (§§ 2001 — 2020) › Chapter 201 - Public Events Promoters (§§ 2001 — 2007) › § 2002 - Registry

The creation of a Registry of Public Performance Promoters is hereby provided, to be attached to the Department of the Treasury of Puerto Rico.
The Registry of Public Performance Promoters shall contain, among others, the following information:
(a) Name, address, and social security of the public performance promoter. He/she shall state the physical and postal address where his/her offices are located. In case he/she moves, he/she shall notify said registry of the change of address within a term of 15 days, counted from the date he/she moved to the other location.
(b) In case a corporation is acting as promoter, it shall file a certified copy of its corporate charter. It shall furnish the names and addresses of the corporate officers, the president, the treasurer, and the secretary, as well as that of the resident agent in Puerto Rico.
(c) Financial statement of the promoter or the corporation acting as promoter.
(d) A copy of the municipal license.
(e) A good conduct certificate.
History —Sept. 3, 1996, No. 182, § 3, eff. 1 year after Sept. 3, 1996.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIFTEEN - Sports and Parks (§§ 1 — 2020) › Subtitle 3 - Public Spectacles (§§ 2001 — 2020) › Chapter 201 - Public Events Promoters (§§ 2001 — 2007) › § 2004 - Obligations of the promoter

In case an artistic event is suspended, whether by accident or for any other reason, the promoter shall have the obligation to refund the amount paid for the tickets to the consumers who acquired the same, within a period of 15 days following the date the event was suspended.
Within the aforementioned period of fifteen (15) days, the promoter shall allow the consumer a minimum of seven (7) days to request his/her refund. He/she shall be available eight (8) working hours, including Saturday, in order to make it easier for the consumer to request his/her refund without having to be absent from workplace.
Likewise, he/she shall have the obligation to give notice of the suspension of the artistic event through the press, radio, or television. Provided, That he/she shall give notice during reasonable hours through the abovementioned media as to the dates, hours, and place where the money will be refunded.
In addition, the promoter shall have the obligation of clearly informing the public what the performance to be presented will consist of. Should the event in question be a musical performance, the promoter shall inform the public the possibility that the artist might use a taped musical background or lip-synch one (1) or more songs.
History —Sept. 3, 1996, No. 182, § 5, eff. 1 year after Sept. 3, 1996.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIFTEEN - Sports and Parks (§§ 1 — 2020) › Subtitle 3 - Public Spectacles (§§ 2001 — 2020) › Chapter 201 - Public Events Promoters (§§ 2001 — 2007) › § 2005 - Penalties

(a) Acting as a promoter within the jurisdiction of Puerto Rico without being duly registered and licensed shall entail a fine of ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
(b) Any entrepreneur who furnishes or rents a locality or area to any person who is not a registered promoter to hold a public event, shall be punished by a fine of ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
History —Sept. 3, 1996, No. 182, § 6, eff. 1 year after Sept. 3, 1996.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIFTEEN - Sports and Parks (§§ 1 — 2020) › Subtitle 3 - Public Spectacles (§§ 2001 — 2020) › Chapter 201 - Public Events Promoters (§§ 2001 — 2007) › § 2006 - Power of the Department of the Treasury

The Department of the Treasury and the Registry of Artistic Promoters are hereby empowered to create and establish the mechanisms and rules needed to implement this chapter.
History —Sept. 3, 1996, No. 182, § 7, eff. 1 year after Sept. 3, 1996.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIFTEEN - Sports and Parks (§§ 1 — 2020) › Subtitle 3 - Public Spectacles (§§ 2001 — 2020) › Chapter 201 - Public Events Promoters (§§ 2001 — 2007) › § 2007 - Exceptions

(a) This chapter shall not apply to any public performance organized by nonprofit civic groups or associations.
(b) Religious institutions, political parties, candidates to political office or reelection to political office, and school organizations, are hereby exempted from compliance of this chapter.
History —Sept. 3, 1996, No. 182, § 8, eff. 1 year after Sept. 3, 1996.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIFTEEN - Sports and Parks (§§ 1 — 2020) › Subtitle 3 - Public Spectacles (§§ 2001 — 2020) › Chapter 202 - College of Public Performance Producers (§§ 2011 — 2020) › § 2011 - Definitions

For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meaning stated below:
(a) College. — Refers to the Puerto Rico College of Public Performance Producers.
(b) Public performance. — Means any public event produced for commercial purposes, whether a sung concert, musical performance, dance performance, sport event, comedy or drama which is presented in a coliseum, hotel, convention center, or any other location, whether open or close, private or public, where admission is charged. Those performances organized by non profit civilian groups or associations, religious institutions, political parties, or candidates to public office or to reelection to public office, school organizations or those events produced by public corporations of the Commonwealth or by municipal governments shall not be included under this definition. No convention, trade show, meeting or seminar intended for professionals shall be construed as a public performance.
(c) Foundation. — Means the Foundation of the Puerto Rico College of Public Performance Producers.
(d) Office (OSPEP).— Refers to the Public Performance Promoters Services Office, whose operations are governed by §§ 2001—2007 of this title, known as the “Public Performance Promoters Act”.
(e) Producer established in Puerto Rico. — A person who has produced public performances in Puerto Rico individually or associated with another producer, for a period of two (2) years or more, who has obtained a regular license from OSPEP to stage performances on the Island, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. It shall be deemed that this group shall be comprised of natural or juridical persons who have obtained a license issued by the Public Performance Promoters Services Office prior to the approval of this act, and henceforth shall be comprised of all those producers who comply with all legal and regulatory requirements under the provisions of this chapter and who by virtue thereof obtain the corresponding College membership.
Likewise, it shall be understood that any natural or juridical person who can provide evidence, as determined by OSPEP under the regulations established by Section 13 of this Act, attesting that he/she has practiced the profession of public performance producer for a term of not less than three (3) years before the approval of this act, shall be covered under the protection that this chapter offers to the public performance producer established in Puerto Rico.
History —Sept. 16, 2005, No. 113, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIFTEEN - Sports and Parks (§§ 1 — 2020) › Subtitle 3 - Public Spectacles (§§ 2001 — 2020) › Chapter 202 - College of Public Performance Producers (§§ 2011 — 2020) › § 2012 - Formation

Public performance producers, who hold a license issued by the Department of the Treasury at the effective date of this act, are hereby authorized to become a juridical body under the name “Puerto Rico College of Public Performance Producers”.
Thus, only those public performance producers established in Puerto Rico who are members of the College shall act as public performance producers in theaters, stages, coliseums, convention centers and other facilities in which public performances are held, as established by this chapter and the regulations adopted thereunder, or those producers who are not established in Puerto Rico, but are associated with producers members of the College, or in the case of producers or promoters who are not established in Puerto Rico, but who are established in some other territory or state of the United States of America after having associated with a producer member of the College, or after having obtained a license from OSPEP and becoming college members.
History —Sept. 16, 2005, No. 113, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIFTEEN - Sports and Parks (§§ 1 — 2020) › Subtitle 3 - Public Spectacles (§§ 2001 — 2020) › Chapter 202 - College of Public Performance Producers (§§ 2011 — 2020) › § 2014 - Organization and government

The organization and government of the College herein created shall be conducted, without it being construed as a limitation, under the following criteria:
(a) The decisions of the College shall be governed firstly by valid resolutions and agreements approved by its General Assembly, and secondly, by valid agreements and decisions of the College governing bodies, in matters not corresponding by law or regulations to the General Assembly and that are within the general and incidental scope of those powers and functions related to the administration which ministerially correspond to the governing bodies.
(b) A chairperson, a vice-chairperson, and a secretary, shall be designated, to be elected in Assembly and be part of the Board of Directors of the College following the procedures provided by the College through regulations. All other members of the Board of Directors of the College shall be elected in General Assembly. Provided, That the first Chairperson and Vice-chairperson of the College shall be elected at a Constituting Assembly to be called by the Department of the Treasury, and by secret vote among the attendees at said Constituting Assembly.
(c) The College Regulations shall establish what has not been provided by the law, as necessary for the faithful compliance with the purposes for which the College was established, including, among other things, everything relative to the composition and name of its governing bodies, to the admission and suspension procedures, the latter as they are delegated to the College by OSPEP as provided by Section 13 of this Act, to the functions, duties, and procedures of all its bodies and officials, to the calling, dates, quorum, manner, and requirements of the general and special assemblies and sessions of the governing bodies, to the elections for directors and officials, to the committees, to the terms of all positions, to the creation and manner for filling vacancies, to the budget, to the investment of funds, and to the disposal of College properties. The regulations shall also provide for the College to hold at least one (1) Regular Assembly every year. Provided, further, That the terms of the College Directors, including its Chairperson and Vice Chairperson, shall not exceed two (2) years.
History —Sept. 16, 2005, No. 113, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIFTEEN - Sports and Parks (§§ 1 — 2020) › Subtitle 3 - Public Spectacles (§§ 2001 — 2020) › Chapter 202 - College of Public Performance Producers (§§ 2011 — 2020) › § 2015 - Special provisions

(a) Once the College begins operations, those persons who aspire to have their own public performance producer license shall apply for admission to the College and be admitted prior to obtaining said license. Once admission to the College is formally requested, pursuant to the regulations to be approved, said College shall issue a membership certificate within a term not to exceed thirty (30) calendar days as of the formal request if the aspirant meets all the requirements established by OSPEP.
(b) The Public Performance Promoter Services Office (OSPEP, Spanish acronym) of the Department of the Treasury shall continue to be the body through which performance promoters and producers in Puerto Rico authenticate ticket inventories and account for their operations to the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Likewise, it shall be the body before which persons or entities aspiring to obtain a license and College membership, as well as those producers who are not established in Puerto Rico provide proof of their participation in the public performance business. OSPEP shall continue to be the entity under the authority of the Department of the Treasury, which shall issue the licenses to aspirants who, as provided by Section 13 of this Act, shall be college member as a requirement for obtaining said license.
(c) The producers who are not established in Puerto Rico shall continue to register with OSPEP; these producers shall produce their public performances on the Island by associating with a College member or by obtaining a membership in the College and the license issued by OSPEP. To such effects, any producer who is not established in Puerto Rico shall enter into contracts or agreements with a College member producer of his/her choice, in order to jointly produce the public performance in question. In the case of producers established within the United States jurisdiction, the College shall not impose terms or conditions for the execution of such contracts or agreements other than those agreed upon by the parties nor shall it have authority to veto their execution. A producer who is not established in Puerto Rico, originating from another state or territorial jurisdiction of the United States of America, who does not wish to associate with a local producer, shall obtain a license issued by OSPEP in addition to the College membership.
Likewise, every administrator of a public or private facility in which public performances are held, shall be bound to certify prior to holding the event and prior to adjudicating or contracting for the use of the facility that the producers have fully complied with the requirements of this section.
History —Sept. 16, 2005, No. 113, § 6.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIFTEEN - Sports and Parks (§§ 1 — 2020) › Subtitle 3 - Public Spectacles (§§ 2001 — 2020) › Chapter 202 - College of Public Performance Producers (§§ 2011 — 2020) › § 2017 - Funds

It is hereby provided that an annual sum of the funds received by the College shall be deposited in a trust to be administered by the Foundation to be used, among other things, to:
(a) Provide for the necessary conditions to make feasible the holding of affordable public performances for people with limited financial resources.
(b) Propitiate the organization of performances in public schools of the Commonwealth by the producers who are College members.
(c) Propitiate the organization of public performances for nonprofit charitable organizations of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico by the producers who are College members.
These funds shall be channeled according to the requirements and in the proportional amounts established by the College Regulations.
History —Sept. 16, 2005, No. 113, § 8.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIFTEEN - Sports and Parks (§§ 1 — 2020) › Subtitle 3 - Public Spectacles (§§ 2001 — 2020) › Chapter 202 - College of Public Performance Producers (§§ 2011 — 2020) › § 2018 - Objections to the use of contributions

The performance producers shall have the right to make objections on the manner the College makes use of the contributions to conduct ideological activities. To such purposes, the College shall outline in its regulations a simple procedure to be followed so that the objector may proceed thus, according to the applicable constitutional parameters.
History —Sept. 16, 2005, No. 113, § 9.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIFTEEN - Sports and Parks (§§ 1 — 2020) › Subtitle 3 - Public Spectacles (§§ 2001 — 2020) › Chapter 202 - College of Public Performance Producers (§§ 2011 — 2020) › § 2019 - Penalties

Any person who practices the profession of public performance producer in Puerto Rico, without being a College member or during the length of the suspension of the payment of the fee, or after his/her license has been revoked, practices the profession as such, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor of more than one thousand dollars ($1000) for every violation incurred.
In compliance with the provisions of § 2015(c) of this title, every producer who is not established in Puerto Rico who works as the promoter or producer of any public performance in Puerto Rico, without being duly associated with a producer member of the College pursuant to this chapter to hold said public performance or who is established in a territory or state of the United States and has not become associated with a producer member of the College, or if he/she is not associated to a College member nor has become a College member or has not obtain a license according to the requirements established by this chapter and the regulations adopted by the College, shall also be subject to an administrative fine to be imposed by OSPEP of not more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) and any public performance producer license granted to him/her may be suspended or revoked. Said sanction may also be imposed to the administration of facilities belonging to the government or to the administrator of the facility individually who allows public performance producers who are not College members nor are associated with a producers members of the College, or who has not obtained the license issued by the College to hold public performances.
Any collections or proceeds resulting from the imposition of the above fines shall be covered into the General Fund.
History —Sept. 16, 2005, No. 113, § 10.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE FIFTEEN - Sports and Parks (§§ 1 — 2020) › Subtitle 3 - Public Spectacles (§§ 2001 — 2020) › Chapter 202 - College of Public Performance Producers (§§ 2011 — 2020) › § 2020 - Regulations

It is hereby provided that the Department of the Treasury, through the Public Performance Registration Office or corresponding entity, shall adopt the mechanisms, rules and new regulations, or to modify existing regulations, including, without it being limited to those contemplated under Regulation No. 5670 of August 18, 1997, to enforce the provisions of this chapter, and including, without it being limited the establishment through regulations of the requirements for the admission to and suspension from the Puerto Rico College of Public Performance Promoters and the corresponding procedure, as well as the delegation to the College of those aspects of said procedure for admission to and suspension from the College membership enforceable under the law. The Department of the Treasury shall meet this requirement within one hundred and twenty (120) days after its date of approval. Once the College drafts a code of ethics, the Department of the Treasury shall include the same in the corresponding regulations adopted by OSPEP.
Any regulations, including the code of ethics, that are to be created as a result of this chapter shall be in agreement with §§ 2101 et seq. of Title 3, known as the “Uniform Administrative Procedure Act”.
History —Sept. 16, 2005, No. 113, § 12.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE SIXTEEN - Election and Registration (§§ 1 — 4255) › Subtitle 2 - Additional Provisions (§§ 351 — 973q) › Chapter 57 - Miscellaneous Provisions (§§ 521 — 527) › § 521 - Elector officers must be qualified electors

No person shall be elected to a Commonwealth or local office who does not possess the qualifications required of electors.
History —Political Code, 1902, § 183.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE SIXTEEN - Election and Registration (§§ 1 — 4255) › Subtitle 2 - Additional Provisions (§§ 351 — 973q) › Chapter 57 - Miscellaneous Provisions (§§ 521 — 527) › § 522 - Search for concealed weapons on election day

Any member of the Police of Puerto Rico is hereby authorized and directed to search any person at any place on election day, whom he suspects of carrying any prohibited weapon, and if the weapon is found on him, the same shall be immediately seized and the corresponding complaint shall be sworn to in accordance with law; and if the person carrying the weapon is a voter he shall not be arrested until he has voted.
History —June 29, 1936, No. 3, p. 8, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE SIXTEEN - Election and Registration (§§ 1 — 4255) › Subtitle 2 - Additional Provisions (§§ 351 — 973q) › Chapter 57 - Miscellaneous Provisions (§§ 521 — 527) › § 523 - Definitions

For purposes of §§ 523—527 of this title, the following terms and phrases shall have the meanings stated below:
(a) Political party. — Any group of citizens defined in Section 1.003 and 3.001 of the Puerto Rico Electoral Act, Act No. 4 of December 20, 1977.
(b) Political party internal body. — Any internal body of a political party, board, directorship, government board, general council, youth groups, women’s organization and any other of similar nature.
(c) Candidate. — Any person who appears in the electoral ballot as an aspirant for an elective public office, as defined in Section 1.003 of the Puerto Rico Electoral Act, Act No. 4 of December 20, 1977.
(d) Independent candidate. — Any person who appears in the electoral ballot as a candidate for elective public office, as defined in Section 1.003 of the Puerto Rico Electoral Act, Act No. 4 of December 20, 1977.
(e) Write-in candidate. — Any person who appears in the electoral ballot as a candidate for elective public office as provided by the Puerto Rico Electoral Act.
(f) Political contribution. — Any contribution, contract, promise, agreement, donation, cash loan or of any other object of value, as defined in Section 1.003 of the Puerto Rico Electoral Act, Act No. 4 of December 20, 1977.
(g) Political event. — Any event in which one or more persons promote a candidacy or political party, including without being limited to, meetings, lectures, rallies, gatherings, marathons, assemblies, conventions, walks, caravans, raffles, speeches, or any other event of similar nature, which are organized, financed or supported by political parties, candidates or organized groups of citizens in favor of or against a candidacy or matter to be considered by voters of political partisan content or status formulas.
History —Dec. 21, 2001, No. 178, § 1.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE SIXTEEN - Election and Registration (§§ 1 — 4255) › Subtitle 2 - Additional Provisions (§§ 351 — 973q) › Chapter 57 - Miscellaneous Provisions (§§ 521 — 527) › § 524 - Prohibitions

The Secretary of the Department of Justice, the Secretary of the Department of Education, the Secretary of the Department of the Treasury and the Police Superintendent are hereby prohibited from participating in the following political partisan events or other events related to political parties:
(1) Political campaigns of any kind during or outside of the electoral year as established by the Constitution.
(2) Be a member of any internal body, committee, or political party campaign group, political action committee or candidate.
(3) Hold any position in any internal body, committee, or political party campaign group, political action committee or candidate, be it at state, municipal or federal level.
(4) Meetings, gatherings, rallies, walks, assemblies, conventions, or any other similar activities that are organized or financed by political parties or political parties’ internal bodies or political action committees.
(5) Publicly support any candidate or candidates for elective offices, be it in primary elections, general elections, special elections, or political parties’ internal elections.
(6) Publicly support any independent candidate or candidates who aspire for elective positions.
(7) Act as polling official in general elections, primaries, special elections or status plebiscites.
(8) Contribute to candidates, political parties, or political action committees.
(9) Organize any political event such as fundraisers, radio and television marathons, raffles, festivals and other events of similar nature, even if he/she does not make a monetary contribution.
(10) Make public statements on matters of political partisan nature.
(11) Require any political contribution, or monetary contribution from any person, including contractors, private persons or enterprises for rendering their services to any agency of the Government of Puerto Rico.
History —Dec. 21, 2001, No. 178, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE SIXTEEN - Election and Registration (§§ 1 — 4255) › Subtitle 2 - Additional Provisions (§§ 351 — 973q) › Chapter 57 - Miscellaneous Provisions (§§ 521 — 527) › § 525 - Prohibitions—Exceptions

None of the officials mentioned in § 524 of this title may participate in the events listed therein, unless the Governor, with a previous recommendation from the Ethics Executive Director, expressly authorizes it.
History —Dec. 21, 2001, No. 178, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE SIXTEEN - Election and Registration (§§ 1 — 4255) › Subtitle 2 - Additional Provisions (§§ 351 — 973q) › Chapter 57 - Miscellaneous Provisions (§§ 521 — 527) › § 526 - Applications

All prohibitions typified in § 524 of this title shall apply to political partisan events held in Puerto Rico and the United States.
History —Dec. 21, 2001, No. 178, § 4.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE SIXTEEN - Election and Registration (§§ 1 — 4255) › Subtitle 2 - Additional Provisions (§§ 351 — 973q) › Chapter 57 - Miscellaneous Provisions (§§ 521 — 527) › § 527 - Penalties

Any official to whom the provisions of §§ 523—527 of this title apply, who violates the provisions on political contributions shall be sanctioned by a fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $5,000, at the discretion of the court, and shall be subject to administrative disciplinary measures including reprimands, suspension or dismissal from [office].
History —Dec. 21, 2001, No. 178, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE SIXTEEN - Election and Registration (§§ 1 — 4255) › Subtitle 2 - Additional Provisions (§§ 351 — 973q) › Chapter 59 - Election Fund for Political Parties; Regulation of Contributions (§§ 601 — 612) › § 610 - Retirement systems—Effect of working for political party with salary paid from Election Fund

Public officials and employees who are participants of the Employees Retirement System of the Government of Puerto Rico and its Instrumentalities or of the Teachers Retirement System, who pass or who have passed, without interruption, to render services with any principal political party, and whose salaries are paid chargeable to the Election Fund created by Act No. 4 of December 20, 1977, may continue as participants of the corresponding retirement system while rendering such services continuously and under the conditions above described.
History —June 20, 1962, No. 69, p. 146, § 1; May 21, 1992, No. 10, § 12.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE SIXTEEN - Election and Registration (§§ 1 — 4255) › Subtitle 2 - Additional Provisions (§§ 351 — 973q) › Chapter 59 - Election Fund for Political Parties; Regulation of Contributions (§§ 601 — 612) › § 611 - Retirement systems—Petition

Officials and employees to whom §§ 610—612 of this title are applicable and who may decide to avail themselves of their benefits, shall, in the case of persons already in service, address a petition for such purpose to the corresponding Retirement System not later than thirty (30) days from the effective date of this act; and in the case of persons who are appointed subsequent to the effective date of this act, not later than thirty (30) days from the effective date of this act; and in the case of persons who are appointed subsequent to the effective date of this act, not later than thirty (30) days from the date of appointment.
History —June 20, 1962, No. 69, p. 146, § 2.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE SIXTEEN - Election and Registration (§§ 1 — 4255) › Subtitle 2 - Additional Provisions (§§ 351 — 973q) › Chapter 59 - Election Fund for Political Parties; Regulation of Contributions (§§ 601 — 612) › § 612 - Retirement systems—Credit for continuous service

Officials and employees availing themselves of the benefits of §§ 610—612 of this title shall be credited with the continuous services rendered to principal political parties as of July 1, 1957, provided said officials and employees and their employers make the necessary contributions to the corresponding Retirement System, as determined by said system.
History —June 20, 1962, No. 69, p. 146, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE SIXTEEN - Election and Registration (§§ 1 — 4255) › Subtitle 2 - Additional Provisions (§§ 351 — 973q) › Chapter 60 - Puerto Rico Political Campaign Financing Oversight Act (§§ 621 — 634) › Subchapter I - Preliminary Provisions (§§ 621 — 621a) › § 621a - Terms used

Any and all words used in the singular form in this chapter shall be deemed to include the plural form as well when its use so justifies. Likewise, the masculine gender shall include the feminine, and vice versa.
History —Nov. 18, 2011, No. 222, § 2.005.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE SIXTEEN - Election and Registration (§§ 1 — 4255) › Subtitle 2 - Additional Provisions (§§ 351 — 973q) › Chapter 60 - Puerto Rico Political Campaign Financing Oversight Act (§§ 621 — 634) › Subchapter II - Office of Election Comptroller (§§ 622 — 622p) › § 622 - Creation

The Office of the Election Comptroller is hereby created, to be composed of one (1) Election Comptroller and one (1) Deputy Election Comptroller. Said officials shall not support the same political party.
History —Nov. 18, 2011, No. 222, § 3.000; Dec. 19, 2014, No. 233, § 3.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE SIXTEEN - Election and Registration (§§ 1 — 4255) › Subtitle 2 - Additional Provisions (§§ 351 — 973q) › Chapter 60 - Puerto Rico Political Campaign Financing Oversight Act (§§ 621 — 634) › Subchapter II - Office of Election Comptroller (§§ 622 — 622p) › § 622b - Dismissal and vacancy of the Election Comptroller and Deputy Election Comptroller Offices

The Election Comptroller and the Deputy Election Comptroller may be dismissed on the following grounds:
(a) Exhibiting bias against a political party, candidate, or citizen group.
(b) Being convicted of a felony or misdemeanor in connection with the election process.
(c) Being convicted of a felony or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude.
(d) Incurring gross negligence carrying out their duties.
(e) Suffering any temporary, permanent, partial, or full physical or mental disability that impairs them to carry out the duties and powers of their office.
Any complaints in connection with the aforementioned destitution grounds shall be filed with the Office of the Secretary of the Election Comptroller. Such complaints shall be referred by the Office of the Secretary of the Election Comptroller to be addressed pursuant to the due process of law by a panel composed of three (3) judges of the Court of First Instance appointed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico.
History —Nov. 18, 2011, No. 222, § 3.002; June 17, 2014, No. 67, § 1; Dec. 19, 2014, No. 233, § 5.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE SIXTEEN - Election and Registration (§§ 1 — 4255) › Subtitle 2 - Additional Provisions (§§ 351 — 973q) › Chapter 60 - Puerto Rico Political Campaign Financing Oversight Act (§§ 621 — 634) › Subchapter II - Office of Election Comptroller (§§ 622 — 622p) › § 622c-1 - Powers, duties, and responsibilities of the Deputy Election Comptroller

(a) To discharge the corresponding powers, duties, and responsibilities as member of the Board of Election Comptrollers described in § 622c of this title, and any others, as provided in another law that is not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter.
(b) To serve as Acting Election Comptroller in the event of absence or temporary disability, death, resignation, or removal of the Election Comptroller, until the Election Comptroller resumes office or his/her substitute is appointed and takes office.
(c) To inspect and follow up on, without it being understood that he/she is supervising, projects as determined by the Board of Election Comptrollers to report about the progress thereof at the Board meetings.
(d) To address in conjunction with the Comptroller any matters referred to the Board of Election Comptrollers as established in this chapter, or any other matter referred to his/her consideration by the Election Comptroller.
(e) To continuously evaluate the regulations, manuals, and instructions of the Office of the Election Comptroller to make the pertinent recommendations at the meetings of the Board of Election Comptrollers.
(f) To discharge any other power or duty delegated by the Election Comptroller that is consistent with his/her responsibilities and the purposes of the Office.
History —Nov. 18, 2011, No. 222, added as § 3.003B on Dec. 19, 2014, No. 233, § 7.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE SIXTEEN - Election and Registration (§§ 1 — 4255) › Subtitle 2 - Additional Provisions (§§ 351 — 973q) › Chapter 60 - Puerto Rico Political Campaign Financing Oversight Act (§§ 621 — 634) › Subchapter II - Office of Election Comptroller (§§ 622 — 622p) › § 622c-2 - Meetings of the Board of Election Comptrollers

The Board of Election Comptrollers shall hold regular meetings, as determined through regulations, on the date, time, and place agreed on by the Comptrollers, without the need to issue a notice for such purposes. Likewise, in order to discharge its duties, the Board shall hold any necessary special meetings previously coordinated and called for through the Secretary of the Board at the request of any of the Comptrollers. The Board of Election Comptrollers shall be constituted in a plenary meeting and may adjourn from time to time as agreed by its members, starting on July 1 st of the general election year, and during the two (2) months preceding a special or primary election, a referendum, or a plebiscite.
The Board of Election Comptrollers may summon any official of the Office of the Comptroller to appear before it and provide an account of his/her duties or any other matter that has been referred to the Board.
History —Nov. 18, 2011, No. 222, added as § 3.003C on Dec. 19, 2014, No. 233, § 8.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE SIXTEEN - Election and Registration (§§ 1 — 4255) › Subtitle 2 - Additional Provisions (§§ 351 — 973q) › Chapter 60 - Puerto Rico Political Campaign Financing Oversight Act (§§ 621 — 634) › Subchapter II - Office of Election Comptroller (§§ 622 — 622p) › § 622d - Minimum operational components or divisions

The organizational structure of the Office of the Election Comptroller shall, at the very least, have the following operational divisions, units, or components:
(a) The Office of the Election Comptroller.
(b) The Office of the Deputy Election Comptroller.
(c) The Office of the Secretary of the Election Comptroller.
(d) The Contributions and Expenditures Audit Division.
(e) Legal Affairs.
(f) Any other operational division, unit, or component that the Board of Election Comptrollers may deem necessary to discharge the responsibilities imposed by this chapter and other laws.
History —Nov. 18, 2011, No. 222, § 3.004; Dec. 19, 2014, No. 233, § 9.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE SIXTEEN - Election and Registration (§§ 1 — 4255) › Subtitle 2 - Additional Provisions (§§ 351 — 973q) › Chapter 60 - Puerto Rico Political Campaign Financing Oversight Act (§§ 621 — 634) › Subchapter II - Office of Election Comptroller (§§ 622 — 622p) › § 622f - Information systems

The Office of the Election Comptroller shall operate by means of a computer system whereby every document required shall be delivered electronically in a speedy and accurate manner.
Through clear and expeditious guidelines, the Office of the Election Comptroller shall establish internal mechanisms related to the evaluation process to issue determinations regarding whether or not the provisions under its jurisdiction have been complied with; develop any necessary strategies to actively incorporate the use of information technologies and telecommunications in its operations.
History —Nov. 18, 2011, No. 222, § 3.006.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE SIXTEEN - Election and Registration (§§ 1 — 4255) › Subtitle 2 - Additional Provisions (§§ 351 — 973q) › Chapter 60 - Puerto Rico Political Campaign Financing Oversight Act (§§ 621 — 634) › Subchapter II - Office of Election Comptroller (§§ 622 — 622p) › § 622g - Rulemaking authority

In order to discharge the powers and duties imposed under this chapter, the Board of Election Comptrollers of the Office of the Election Comptroller is hereby empowered, as the case may be, to adopt, amend, and/or repeal:
(a) Any bylaws and necessary operating guidelines for structuring and operating the Office of the Election Comptroller in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and any other applicable law.
(b) Any regulations to establish the procedure to be followed when carrying out any oversight and enforcement powers conferred under this chapter; the necessary regulations to establish the collection of fees, duties and charges, upon previous approval, pursuant to the applicable provisions; regulations that shall guarantee that the audits shall be conducted simultaneously for all the candidates to the same office, including those who have not been elected.
History —Nov. 18, 2011, No. 222, § 3.007; July 3, 2012, No. 135, § 6; Dec. 19, 2014, No. 233, § 11.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE SIXTEEN - Election and Registration (§§ 1 — 4255) › Subtitle 2 - Additional Provisions (§§ 351 — 973q) › Chapter 60 - Puerto Rico Political Campaign Financing Oversight Act (§§ 621 — 634) › Subchapter II - Office of Election Comptroller (§§ 622 — 622p) › § 622h - Budget

The Board of Election Comptrollers shall prepare and submit the budget of the Office of the Election Comptroller. The necessary funds to achieve the purposes of this chapter during the current fiscal year and subsequent fiscal years shall be earmarked every year in the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico General Expense Budget Act. All the moneys received by the Office of the Election Comptroller to carry out the task of implementing the provisions of this chapter, from the sources specified in this chapter and from any other sources, shall be covered into a Special Fund to be denominated as the “Special Fund of the Office of the Election Comptroller.” All funds, accounts, budget appropriations and surpluses in the power of the State Election Commission that have been allocated to the Office of the Election Auditor shall be transferred to the Office of the Election Comptroller immediately after the effective date of this act.
Every year, the Legislative Assembly shall provide the Office of the Election Comptroller with sufficient funds for its operations. Any surplus existing at the end of the fiscal year shall remain in the Special Fund of the Office of the Election Comptroller and shall not revert to the General Fund of the Government of Puerto Rico. For such purposes, the Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall submit to the consideration of the Legislative Assembly the General Expense Budget of the Office of the Election Comptroller for each fiscal year, which shall never be lower than that of the preceding year, unless the budget of the Government is decreased, in which case, it may be lower, but proportional to the budget reduction. The budget of the Office of the Election Comptroller shall be accounted with priority, as requested by the Election Comptroller. No general or special provision of law may be invoked to freeze the budget or accounts of the Office of the Election Comptroller nor to postpone expenditures or disbursements.
Before utilizing the resources deposited in the Special Fund, the Office of the Election Comptroller shall submit the expense budget every year for the Legislative Assembly’s approval. The resources of the Special Fund created to defray the regular operating expenses of the Office of the Election Comptroller shall be complemented with appropriations originating from the General Fund of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, if necessary.
History —Nov. 18, 2011, No. 222, § 3.008; July 3, 2012, No. 135, § 7; Dec. 19, 2014, No. 233, § 12.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE SIXTEEN - Election and Registration (§§ 1 — 4255) › Subtitle 2 - Additional Provisions (§§ 351 — 973q) › Chapter 60 - Puerto Rico Political Campaign Financing Oversight Act (§§ 621 — 634) › Subchapter II - Office of Election Comptroller (§§ 622 — 622p) › § 622i - Procurement

The Office of the Election Comptroller shall be exempted from the provisions of §§ 931 et seq. of Title 3, as amended, known as the “General Services Administration Act”. The Office of the Election Comptroller, in compliance with the provisions of this chapter, shall establish, through regulations adopted for such purposes, its own procurement and assistive service systems, in accordance with sound fiscal administration, and economy and efficiency guidelines. Preference in the acquisition of goods and services shall be given to manufacturing plants and professional firms from Puerto Rico; thus, the provisions of §§ 930 et seq. of Title 3, known as the “Puerto Rican Industry Investment Act”, the regulations promulgated thereunder, and programs directed to include local enterprises shall apply.
History —Nov. 18, 2011, No. 222, § 3.009.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE SIXTEEN - Election and Registration (§§ 1 — 4255) › Subtitle 2 - Additional Provisions (§§ 351 — 973q) › Chapter 60 - Puerto Rico Political Campaign Financing Oversight Act (§§ 621 — 634) › Subchapter II - Office of Election Comptroller (§§ 622 — 622p) › § 622j - Studies or research

The Office of the Election Comptroller may carry out any studies or research deemed appropriate, and may require any necessary or pertinent information to achieve such purposes, as well as approve any necessary and reasonable rules and regulations to such ends.
History —Nov. 18, 2011, No. 222, § 3.010.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE SIXTEEN - Election and Registration (§§ 1 — 4255) › Subtitle 2 - Additional Provisions (§§ 351 — 973q) › Chapter 60 - Puerto Rico Political Campaign Financing Oversight Act (§§ 621 — 634) › Subchapter II - Office of Election Comptroller (§§ 622 — 622p) › § 622k - Annual report

The Election Comptroller shall draw and submit an annual report to the Governor and the Legislative Assembly not later than ninety (90) days after the closing of the fiscal year about the operations and the fiscal situation of the Office of the Election Comptroller, including any recommendations that the Election Comptroller may deem necessary for the most efficient operations of such Office. After submitting the first annual report, the Election Comptroller shall include at the end of his/her annual reports, a summary of the recommendations made previously and a description of the action taken with regard to such recommendations. In addition, he/she shall include a summary of the presented cases, as well as their status or conclusion.
History —Nov. 18, 2011, No. 222, § 3.011.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE SIXTEEN - Election and Registration (§§ 1 — 4255) › Subtitle 2 - Additional Provisions (§§ 351 — 973q) › Chapter 60 - Puerto Rico Political Campaign Financing Oversight Act (§§ 621 — 634) › Subchapter II - Office of Election Comptroller (§§ 622 — 622p) › § 622l - Personnel

Regular career service personnel who, as of the effective date of this act, were holding regular positions with permanent duties in the Career Service, may be transferred with such status to the Office of the Election Comptroller from the Commonwealth Election Commission, as well as from any other government entities, provided that the Election Comptroller requests their transfer and the employee accepts the same. Trust employees that, as of the date of their appointment by the Election Comptroller, were entitled to reinstatement as provided in § 1465a of Title 3, which reforms the “Public Service Human Resources Administration of the Government of Puerto Rico”, shall remain in their positions with such status until the appointing authority determines to reinstate them to their career status.
Transfers shall be made taking into account the duties of each employee in the Commonwealth Election Commission, as well as in all other government entities concerned, but shall be subject to the needs for personnel and availability of financial resources of the Office of the Election Comptroller and the volume of work in said office.
The classification, reclassification, and compensation of positions shall be established according to the classification and compensation plans applicable in the Office of the Election Comptroller. Transferred employees shall, at least, meet the minimum job classification requirements of the position they shall hold.
All other matters related to personnel and human resources transferred to the Office of the Election Comptroller shall be addressed through an administrative order for such purposes, in coordination with the Chair of the Commonwealth Election Commission and the heads of the government entities concerned, when applicable, and in compliance with all laws related to the administration of government personnel currently in force, including Act No. 7 of 2009, known as the “Special Act to Declare a State of Fiscal Emergency and to Establish a Comprehensive Fiscal Stabilization Plan to Salvage the Credit of Puerto Rico”. The Election Comptroller shall work in coordination and cooperation with the Chair of the Commonwealth Election Commission and the heads of the Government Entities Concerned in all that pertains to the transfer of personnel. Likewise, the Election Comptroller and the Chair of the Commonwealth Election Commission are hereby authorized to issue any necessary administrative orders to comply with this chapter and its public policy in all that pertains to the personnel attached to these entities, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
History —Nov. 18, 2011, No. 222, § 3.012.
2023 Laws of Puerto Rico › TITLE SIXTEEN - Election and Registration (§§ 1 — 4255) › Subtitle 2 - Additional Provisions (§§ 351 — 973q) › Chapter 60 - Puerto Rico Political Campaign Financing Oversight Act (§§ 621 — 634) › Subchapter II - Office of Election Comptroller (§§ 622 — 622p) › § 622m - Transfer of property

Any property or interest thereon, records, files, documents, funds whether appropriated or to be appropriated and available in the future, including surplus, assets, accounts receivable of any kind, and any other authorizations of the Office of the Election Auditor of the Commonwealth Election Commission are hereby transferred from the Commonwealth Election Commission to be used in attaining the ends and purposes of this chapter.
History —Nov. 18, 2011, No. 222, § 3.013.