P.R. Laws tit. 12, § 1307
(a) The Authority is constituted as an Individual Administrator pursuant to Act No. 5 of Oct. 14, 1975. The officials and employees of the Authority shall have the right to be reimbursed for all necessary travel expenses or the corresponding per diems as authorized by regulations approved by the Board. The officials and employees of any board, commission, agency, instrumentality or public corporation or Department of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, appointed by the Authority, who, at the time of their appointment, were beneficiaries of any retirement plan, or any savings or loan plan, shall continue to hold, after the appointment, the rights, privileges, obligations and status thereof, as prescribed by the act for officials and employees holding similar offices in the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(b) No person having a direct or indirect economic interest in any private enterprise engaged in business with the Authority, or in any business whose principal activities are related to the acquisition, building, design, operation or maintenance of solid waste facilities, storage and final disposal thereof, shall hold office as member, official, employee or agent of the Authority. When the incompatibility affects a member of the Board, he shall vacate his office, which shall be filled for the duration of such incompatibility, by the Governor’s appointment of any other official heading any other Department or agency of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or by some other mayor, or by any other citizen of the private sector of the economy or the citizenry in general, as the case may be. When issues concerning a municipality are being discussed, the mayor of such municipality who is a member of the Board shall not participate in the discussion before the Board, and the municipality shall be represented by some person other than the mayor.
History —June 23, 1978, No. 70, p. 222, § 8.