P.R. Laws tit. 3, § 441g
The Secretary is hereby empowered to establish, jointly with the Office of the Government Management and Budget, and with the approval of the Governor, the internal organization of the Department and he may for such purposes reorganize, consolidate, modify, abolish or annul the programs, activities and existing units, as well as create new units, but subject to the condition that no program which has been established by law may be eliminated without the consent of the Legislature. It is herein provided that in the organization and reorganization there may be transferred to the Department functions, programs or activities of the public corporations or agencies attached and vice-versa.
It is hereby provided that the Secretary may transfer or distribute among the various bodies, corporations, administrations, divisions or dependencies that are a part of, or attached to the Department, the powers, duties, functions, programs, activities, faculties, contracts, obligations, exemptions and privileges assigned, to the existing programs, activities or units, including the programs ruled by federal legislation. The Secretary is empowered to endow the functions, programs or activities that are transferred or distributed, with the properties of any nature, that are needed or appropriate for its operation.
To such purposes, the Secretary may delegate on any official of the Department to carry out all matters related to said transfer. The measures needed to ensure that the Department and its dependencies will assume the direction and administration of the programs, services, units, divisions and dependencies shall be adopted so that the services rendered by the Department are not interrupted or affected.
History —June 10, 1972, No. 97, p. 242, § 8; Aug. 9, 1991, No. 58, § 3.