P.R. Laws tit. 8, § 1060

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§ 1060. Interagency support

The Secretary of the Department of Health shall designate his/her representatives, who shall be present in the course of the process of preparing the regulation, with the purpose of ensuring that such medical or health issues which could arise during pregnancy, labor or after labor, are addressed.

Likewise, the Department of the Family, the Department of Health, and public and private nonprofit adoption agencies, shall, by virtue of an adoption task force, meet periodically to create and supervise mechanisms to keep abreast of new developments on the matters of adoption.

The Department, in coordination with the Department of Health, shall adopt a sign, to be placed by healthcare services institutions in a visible place to inform the option of voluntarily placing minors for adoption, the modalities therefor and the legal consequences of such action.

History —Dec. 18, 2009, No. 186, § 11, eff. 30 days after Dec. 18, 2009.