P.R. Laws tit. 4, § 1537a
The Corporation shall develop strategies for the promotion, marketing and exhibition of the products and services made and offered, respectively, by the Corporation, with the collaboration of the different agencies, departments, instrumentalities, corporations and municipalities of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
The Corporation shall prepare and distribute a catalogue, brochure and/or any other propaganda about the products and services made and offered by the same, for the purposes of marketing them to all the agencies, departments, instrumentalities, corporations and municipalities of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, as well as to private entities and individual persons. Furthermore, the Corporation shall prepare and maintain updated and accessible to public view a page on the World Wide Web, better known as the Internet, to promote the products and services that made and offered by the same.
All agencies, departments, instrumentalities, corporations and municipalities of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall provide an area in the lobby of their main offices, which are visited by the public seeking their services, to the Corporation free of charge for a period of not less than fifteen (15) working days a year, either consecutively or interruptedly, upon agreement, to promote and exhibit the products and services made and offered, respectively, by the Corporation. The foregoing provision shall apply to the main lobbies of government public service centers.
All agencies, departments, instrumentalities, corporations and municipalities of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall provide to the Corporation, a permanent area in the lobby of their main offices that are visited by the public in order to receive services, for the placement of a bulletin board on which the Corporation may affix materials for the promotion of the products and services made and offered, respectively, by the Corporation. The foregoing provision shall apply to the main lobbies of government public service centers. The area for the placement of the bulletin board, including its size, shall be identified by mutual agreement between the Corporation and the different agencies, departments, instrumentalities, corporations and municipalities of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The bulletin board shall be supplied by the Corporation.
All passenger airports in Puerto Rico, as well as the sea ports of San Juan, Cataño, Fajardo, Vieques and Culebra, shall be subject to the provisions of this Section. For such purposes, they shall provide to the Corporation, free of charge, for a period of not less than fifteen (15) working days a year, consecutively or [discontinuously], upon agreement, an area or main lobby which is visited by the general public and passengers, for the promotion and exhibition of the products and services made and offered, respectively, by the Corporation.
The areas designated to comply with the purposes of this section shall be subject to strict compliance with state and federal regulations and/or laws, as well as internal regulations and/or rules for the regulation of the operations in said facilities. The use of such areas by the Corporation to comply with the purposes of this section shall not affect the operations and services rendered and/or offered to the citizenry by the different agencies, departments, instrumentalities, corporations and municipalities of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The areas designated to comply with the purposes of this section shall not be for-profit business areas or establishments.
The Corporation, by itself or through a representative or employee, shall not conduct sales transactions of its products and services in the areas designated to comply with the purposes of this section.
Pursuant to the preceding paragraphs of this section, if the Corporation needs any utilities, such as electric power services, among other similar ones in addition to the area for promoting and exhibiting, it shall assume the cost thereof before the public or quasi-public entity, unless there is a written agreement to the contrary between the parties.
History —Aug. 6, 1991, No. 47, added as § 18-A on Sept. 23, 2004, No. 478, § 1.