P.R. Laws tit. 21, § 4555
The following areas of municipal personnel administration shall be deemed essential to the merit principle:
(a) Classification of positions.
(b) Recruitment and selection.
(c) Promotions, transfers and demotions.
(d) Training.
(e) Retention.
The municipality shall adopt regulations regarding those areas that are essential to the merit principle. Said regulations shall include all those personnel areas that, even though they are not essential to the merit principle, are needed to achieve a modern and equitable personnel administration system which will expedite the application of the merit principle. Pursuant to the above, the municipality may include within these regulations, or in their place, adopt separate regulations which establish the procedures for performing controlled substances tests. These regulations shall provide, among other things:
(1) Protection of the confidentiality of the procedures and the results of the tests for controlled substances.
(2) The mechanisms for controlling the procedures and the norms to be implemented to administer the tests.
(3) [Repealed. Act Jan. 10, 1999, No. 30, § 2.]
History —Aug. 30, 1991, No. 81, § 12.005; Apr. 28, 1996, No. 26, § 2; renumbered as § 11.005 by § 3 and amended by § 2 on Jan. 10, 1999, No. 30.