P.R. Laws tit. 21, § 4304
The legislature shall consider the municipality’s general budget draft resolution during a regular session as provided in § 4203(a) of this title, and approve it and submit it to the mayor no later than June 13 of each fiscal year.
(a) Term for the mayor’s approval.— Within six (6) days following the date that the budget draft resolution approved by the legislature is presented to the mayor, he/she shall sign it, or return it to the legislature within the same term without his/her signature, stating his/her objections and recommendations. When the mayor does not sign nor return said draft resolution within the above term, it shall be construed that it has been signed and approved by him/her, and the municipality’s general budget resolution shall be effective for all purposes, on the date said term expires.
(b) Approval over the objections of the mayor.— When the mayor returns the budget draft resolution to the Assembly with his/her objections and recommendations, its President shall call a special session within five (5) days following the receipt thereof, which shall not last more than three (3) consecutive days, to consider the mayor’s objections or recommendations, exclusively.
(1) The legislature may amend the draft resolution by adopting all or part of the mayor’s recommendations with the affirmative vote of the majority of all its members. The budget draft resolution thus amended and approved, shall again be presented to the mayor, who shall have a term of three (3) days from the date it is presented to him/her, to sign and approve it. If the mayor does not sign and approve it within said three-day term, it shall be construed that the budget draft resolution as amended, has been signed and approved by him/her, and shall be effective on the date said term expires, as if the mayor had signed it.
(2) The legislature may approve the municipal budget draft resolution over the objections and recommendations of the mayor, by the affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of the total number of the members of the legislature. The budget thus approved shall be in effect and shall rule for the following fiscal year.
(3) When the legislature makes no decision on the objections and recommendations of the mayor to the draft of the general expenses budget resolution approved by it, or when it does and the mayor does not concur with them, said draft of the resolution shall be approved and the credits of the accounts on which the legislature did not take action, as well as those approved by the legislature and not accepted by the mayor, shall be left in a reserve account. The distribution of these reserves shall only be carried out through a resolution to that effect, duly approved by the municipal legislature.
History —Aug. 30, 1991, No. 81, § 7.004; Oct. 29, 1992, No. 84, § 28; Apr. 13, 1995, No. 36, § 26.