P.R. Laws tit. 18, § 1415
With the purpose of implementing the public policy enunciated hereby, and achieve the objectives of the Administration, it shall have the following objectives and functions, among others:
(a) Establish, organize and operate its various installations, whether campuses, workshops, farms, camps, schools, or institutions of any other nature, where the participants shall be trained or work. For this purpose, it may contract or reach agreements with private profit or nonprofit educational institutions, for them to provide the training, studies and development of the participants, under the terms and conditions established by the laws in force.
(b) Offer counseling, guidance and opportunities to become acquainted with the Administration, to the participants who wish to take part in it.
(c) Develop study, training, work and personal development programs on its own account or through contracts, or any other type of agreement, to achieve the purposes of this chapter, and specifically, leading to the creation of job opportunities for the participants.
(d) To develop pilot programs and sample programs which shall apply the provisions of this chapter as a test.
(e) Coordinate the Administration’s activities with other agencies.
(f) To develop farming, fishing, industrial, commercial, forestry, hotel tourism and any other type of activity necessary to satisfy the needs of the Administration and to achieve its maximum self-sufficiency.
(g) To develop in the participants working habits and attitudes of leadership, self-sufficiency, self-confidence and a desire to serve others.
(h) Organize and counsel the participants and those who have completed the Administration’s program, provide them with technical and financial assistance to establish and operate workshops, small businesses, and service enterprises, to be operated and managed individually by the participants or those who have completed their Program, or through cooperatives, partnerships, corporations or any group thereof.
(i) Provide financial assistance, in the form of loans, incentives or inducements directly to the participants as well as to any other private person or entity that provides services to the participants, in order to promote the development of the Administration.
(j) Contract the rendering of services, training and workshops for employees or beneficiaries of other government agencies and private organizations when they promote the Administration’s objectives.
(k) To organize for its former participants:
(1) Job placement services in lucrative employment;
(2) groups or cooperatives for the production of goods and services, and
(3) extension programs for their continuing improvement.
(l) To request and obtain appropriations, donations and assistance in the form of money, goods, services or others from the federal government, the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico including its agencies and political subdivisions or from private sources to carry out the purposes stated in this chapter, under the conditions established in the applicable legislation, regulations, agreements or contracts.
(m) To collect a fair and reasonable fee for the training, retraining and educational courses that are offered, under the proper circumstances, and when it is not detrimental to the Administration’s purposes, taking into account the financial capacity of the participants, the Administration’s resources, and any requirement that is stipulated by agreements, to generate additional resources for the Administration.
(n) In the measure that is necessary, and with the purpose of providing the financial resources needed for the implementation of the Administration’s services, the sale or lease of assets, whether real estate or goods and chattels, when their use is no longer needed, its operation is onerous, or otherwise, when disposing of them serves the best interests of the Administration and the participants. It shall be understood that the moneys collected from said sales or leases shall be adjudicated to the Administration’s fund for operating expenses and capital improvements. In these cases, the laws in effect for the taxation and appraisal of assets must be complied with. The sale shall be subject to the approval of the Governor of Puerto Rico.
(o) To operate the Guánica Hotel School with the advice of the Advisory Board created herein.
History —June 23, 1985, No. 1, p. 595, § 5; Aug. 6, 1999, No. 224, § 7; Sept. 3, 2003, No. 259, § 1.