P.R. Laws tit. 18, § 1454
The Administration may solicit, obtain and contract for aid or assistance, in cash, kind, services, or of any other nature from the federal government, for the purposes of this chapter, pursuant to applicable laws, regulations and agreements.
The Governor is hereby empowered to designate the Administrator and the Administration as the official and the agency charged with the administration of any aid or assistance program mentioned in the preceding paragraph. By virtue of such authority, the Administrator shall arrange and process the necessary agreements in the most effective way in order to achieve the purposes of this chapter. To such effects, the Administrator is authorized to use, create, regulate, coordinate, evaluate, or promote and develop, as compatible with the laws, regulations and contractual conditions that govern such agreements, those projects, facilities, organizations, activities and services that are required to obtain the greatest benefits for the Administration. Likewise, the Administrator shall have the power to supply to the entity with which he/she enters into an agreement, or the person or entity designated thereby, with information of any nature whose disclosure is not forbidden by law, in order to comply with any of said agreements.
History —June 23, 1985, No. 1, p. 595, § 22, renumbered as § 20 on Dec. 18, 1991, No. 97, art. 15, § 6; Aug. 6, 1999, No. 224, § 24.