P.R. Laws tit. 23, § 503

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§ 503. Duties of government entities

(a) Every agency, department, municipality, corporation and instrumentality of the Government shall revise [sic] their present statutory authority, their administrative regulations and their policies and current proceedings with the purpose of determining if any deficiencies or inconsistencies exist therein which prevents them from fully complying with the purposes and provisions of this chapter, and shall submit a written report on such matter which shall include those steps needed to adjust their authority and policies pursuant to the intention and purposes of this chapter, to the Sustainable Development Commission of Puerto Rico established in §§ 504—508 of this title, (hereinafter the Commission), within eighteen (18) months from the effective date of the same.

(b) As of the effective date of this act, the agencies, departments, municipalities, corporations and instrumentalities of the Government shall notify the Commission of any deficiencies or inconsistencies contained in bills under evaluation or in laws to be approved in the future within thirty (30) days after learning of the existence of said deficiencies or inconsistencies.

(c) The agencies, departments, municipalities, corporations and instrumentalities of the Government shall provide to the Commission the assistance necessary to enable it to comply with the intention, purposes or objectives, and provisions of this chapter, in accordance to the resources available to them and the interagency agreements to be executed.

History —Sept. 10, 2004, No. 267, § 5.