P.R. Laws tit. 15, § 504
(a) A public corporation under the name of the Puerto Rico National Parks Company is hereby created as a government instrumentality of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, which shall act under authority of the latter.
(b) The Company herein created is a public corporation and government instrumentality attached to the Sports and Recreation Department, with legal personality and existence separate and apart from that of the Government and any official thereof. The debts, obligations, contracts, bonds, notes, receipts, expenses, accounts, funds, enterprises and properties of the Company, its officials, agents or employees shall be understood to be part of said Company and not of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or any of its offices, bureaus, departments, commissions, dependencies, municipalities, branches, agents, officials or employees thereof.
(c) The Executive Director and the Board of the Company shall hold the offices of executive director and trustees of the Trust.
All administrative measures and the maintenance of the Trust shall be executed by the Company and its officers in accordance with the purposes of the constitution of the Trust.
(d) The Company and the Trust shall be administered, and its corporate powers shall be exercised by a board of directors composed of nine (9) members. The Secretary of Sports and Recreation shall be the President of the Board of Directors. Furthermore, three (3) of the members shall be the Secretary of the Department of Education, the Executive Director of the Tourism Company and the Secretary of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, or any other official designated by their respective agencies.
The remaining five (5) members shall be persons of recognized interest and experience in the development and preservation of parks in the private sector and shall be appointed by the Governor with the recommendation of the Secretary of Sports and Recreation.
The Governor may substitute these five (5) members when deemed pertinent and necessary to achieve the purposes of this chapter.
In the case of a vacancy, it shall be covered within the following sixty (60) days.
The members of the Board who are not public officers or employees shall receive the per diem to be determined by the Board for their services.
All decisions of the Board shall be made by a majority of the total number of the members that compose the same.
History —June 23, 1961, No. 114, p. 234, § 4; Nov. 17, 1993, No. 90, § 2; Apr. 8, 2001, No. 10, § 4.