P.R. Laws tit. 18, § 607
(a) Every university campus and college shall have an administrative board constituted by the Chancellor, who shall be chairperson thereof, the deans of academic, student and administrative affairs, the faculty deans, whether there is one or not, four (4) directors of academic departments, two (2) senators elected from among the non-ex officio members of their Academic Senates and a student elected annually by his/her peers. On the administrative board of the Mayagüez Campus, the Agricultural Experimental Station and the Agricultural Extension Service shall be represented by their respective directors. The Board of Trustees may eliminate or modify the structure of administrative board of the Medical Sciences Campus according to the special circumstances of said Campus within the term of one year from the date of approval of this act. Should the Board of Trustees eliminate the administrative board, it may assign the duties and functions thereof to some other body within the Medical Sciences Campus.
(b) The General University Regulations shall determine the constitution and organization of the respective administrative board in other autonomous institutional units hereafter created.
(c) The functions of the administrative boards shall be the following:
(1) To advise the chancellor in the exercise of his functions.
(2) To work out the projects and development plans of the respective institutional unit.
(3) To consider the budget proposal of the respective institutional unit, submitted by the chancellor.
(4) To grant, on proposal of the chancellor, the licenses, academic ranks, permanency and promotions of the teaching and technical personnel of the institutional unit, in accordance with the General University Regulations.
(d) Any issue requiring the approval of the Board, and when any of its members so requests, shall be voted on by direct and secret vote cast by the majority of its members present. For purposes of this section, the term majority shall mean half (½) of the members present plus one (1).
History —Jan 20, 1966, No. 1, p. 85, § 8; Aug. 7, 1998, No. 186, § 5; Aug. 11, 2010, No. 128, § 3.