P.R. Laws tit. 16, § 4042
A Local Commission shall be constituted in each election precinct. Local Commissions shall be permanent in nature and be composed of a Chair, who shall be a Judge of the Court of First Instance designated by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, as provided in § 4035 of this title at the request of the Commission.
The judges who shall serve as Chairs in each local commission shall be appointed simultaneously with an Alternate Chair for each one of such Commissions. Alternate Chairs shall carry out the functions of the Chair in case of absence, disability, death, removal, or when, for any reason, a vacancy arises in said office.
No judge may be appointed as the Alternate Chair of more than three (3) local commissions, or be, at the same time, the regular Chair of a local Commission.
The local election commissions shall meet the second week of each month. The Chair and the Local Commissioners of each local commission shall receive a per diem of seventy-five dollars ($75) for every meeting. The payment of per diems for more than two (2) meetings a month shall not be authorized, except for the one hundred twenty (120)-day term preceding an election, when up to four (4) meetings a month shall be authorized. Such per diems shall have the nature of reimbursement of expenses and, therefore, will not be taxable.
The presence of the Chair and two (2) Local Commissioners shall constitute a quorum for all the works of the local commission. If a quorum cannot be constituted, the Chair shall call all the Commissioners and their alternates to a second meeting, in writing, with acknowledgment of receipt. For this second meeting, a quorum shall be constituted by the local commissioners and alternate local commissioners in attendance.
History —June 1, 2011, No. 78, § 5.002; Nov. 21, 2011, No. 230, § 8; June 17, 2014, No. 67, § 6; Dec. 22, 2014, No. 239, § 14.