P.R. Laws tit. 23, § 506
The Chairperson of the Commission shall have the following duties and powers, among others assigned to him by law:
(a) Shall preside over the meetings of the Commission and enforce the decisions adopted by the Commission.
(b) Shall appoint an Executive Director of the Commission, who shall direct and supervise all its technical and administrative activities.
(c) Shall create, at the request of the Commission or on his own, any subcommissions deemed necessary or convenient, define the duties assigned to each subcommission and appoint the members thereto. Said members may be commissioners, employees or consultants of the Commission, or officers or employees of other agencies, municipalities, departments, public corporations or instrumentalities. He/she may also appoint as ad honorem members of these subcommissions any other persons who are not officers or public employees.
(d) The Environmental Quality Board may contract the services of highly specialized persons, including professional and consultant services, when necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
(e) The Environmental Quality Board may accept and provide that royalties and donations or funds appropriated in the budget of the Commission be spent to conduct special studies in accordance with this chapter and may use any help made available to it by other public and private agencies or institutions.
(f) The Environmental Quality Board may establish and execute the contracts or agreements needed to carry out the pertinent programs and procedures within the framework of its functions and the laws of Puerto Rico.
(g) Shall represent the Commission and, when so authorized by the Governor, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, in coordination with the Department of State of Puerto Rico, and in accordance with the foreign policy of the United States, in all national, regional or international activities on sustainable development. He/she may delegate the representation of the Commission on any of its commissioners, who are, in turn, public employees or on its Executive Director.
(h) May delegate upon the Executive Director or other members of the Commission the duties and powers he/she deems necessary for the best operation of said Commission.
History —Sept. 10, 2004, No. 267, § 8.