P.R. Laws tit. 18, § 1526
The School shall administer its own personnel system and shall appoint all its officers, agents and employees who shall be public employees entitled to belong to the Association of Employees of the Government of Puerto Rico and shall assign to them the functions it deems convenient.
The Board may establish a ranking system for the teaching personnel of the School.
The School shall be considered to be an Individual Administrator, as established in Act No. 5 of October 14, 1975, as amended, known as the “Public Service Personnel Act”, with respect to its teaching and non-teaching personnel.
Removal of a member of the School personnel whose appointment is of a permanent nature may not be carried out without first having filed charges and given said person the opportunity to present his/her defense; however, the Chancellor may suspend from employment and salary any member of the personnel until the charges against said person have been heard without prejudice of the motion for appeal granted in this chapter.
It may contract the services of employees and officers of any agency, instrumentality and political dependency of the Government of Puerto Rico outside their working hours and pay the proper compensation for the additional services, as established in §§ 678 et seq. of this title, which has applied to the present to the University of Puerto Rico. The employees and public officers that are contracted by the School shall not be subject to § 1822(f) of Title 3, known as the “Ethics in Government Act of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico”.
The artists members of the permanent faculty of the School of Plastic Arts are hereby authorized to receive pay, without being subject to the double compensation prohibition provided in § 551 of Title 3, for services rendered outside their working hours in said School to any department, subdivision, agency, board, commission, committee, instrumentality, public corporation or municipality of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, for which the prior written authorization of the Chancellor of the School of Plastic Arts shall be required.
History —Aug. 22, 1990, No. 54, p. 213, § 6; Sept. 16, 2004, No. 349, § 1.