P.R. Laws tit. 18, § 1160a
The Musical Arts and Stagecraft Corporation is hereby established to carry out, without being limited to, the following duties:
(a) To develop an integral plan following the general directives of the Musical Arts Corporation for the development of musical arts and stagecraft in Puerto Rico. Musical arts and stagecraft shall be understood to be productions and shows such as operas, zarzuelas, ballets, dances, music and popular festivals and other artistic varieties, and giving the broadest participation and preferred treatment to Puerto Rican performers.
(b) To coordinate and integrate the efforts of the Government, the performers, industry and the citizenry who are interested in musical arts and stagecraft activities and in the creation of Puerto Rican opera, zarzuela, ballet, dance, music and popular festivals and other artistic variety companies, without interfering or affecting the duties which correspond to the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture.
(c) To stimulate and foster the advancement of the performers and assistant personnel in the performing arts in Puerto Rico in harmony with a program for the development of professional performers which shall include training, job development and technical services.
(d) To stimulate the development of commercial and financial mechanisms needed for the advancement and further growth of all types of musical arts and stagecraft.
(e) To coordinate and integrate the efforts of such programs which are now scattered and give due participation to all government agencies whose purposes and duties are related, in one way or another, to musical arts and stagecraft.
(f) To promote the maximum participation of those groups or individuals who are professionally engaged in musical arts and stagecraft, the students, private citizens with an interest therein, the press and the general public.
(g) To promulgate by laws and adopt the measures required to carry out the functions and duties described herein.
(h) To establish a permanent program of special scholarships for students who are gifted in the field of musical arts and stagecraft to study in Puerto Rico or abroad, giving priority to low-income and needy students and requiring the recipients to render the public services that are deemed pertinent pursuant to the standards and criteria established by the General Director of the Musical Arts and Stagecraft Corporation in the formal regulations approved for their selection.
(i) To establish a permanent program for special resident Puerto Rican or foreign guest artists and performers who shall be selected each year for their personal excellence in the different fields of musical arts and stagecraft so that they may participate in different local teaching or creative activities and to grant these resident artists and performers the best facilities and opportunities to produce artistic work of international excellence. Likewise, to negotiate, enter into and establish reciprocity agreements, so that local artists and performers may participate in similar activities in other countries.
(j) To establish a program to support and promote lyric theater in Puerto Rico and provide all the help that is needed to the groups related to the opera, zarzuela, operetta and ballet in Puerto Rico.
History —May 12, 1980, No. 42, p. 104, § 2; July 31, 1985, No. 6, p. 802, § 3.