P.R. Laws tit. 1, § 158
The Commission may use the services and facilities offered by persons or private institutions. The Department of Education, the University of Puerto Rico, the Department of the Family, the Corrections Administration and the Puerto Rico Police, among other government bodies, shall provide their facilities for the educational activities of the Civil Rights Commission, in general.
Government of Puerto Rico’s radio and television stations shall assign, free of cost, a permanent time slot, of at least one hour a month, to broadcast information on civil rights.
The Commission may contract or appoint any official or employee of the Government of Puerto Rico or of any of its departments, agencies, instrumentalities, bodies or political subdivisions, with the consent of the nominating authority of the government organization where said official or employee is rendering services. In such a case, it shall be the duty of the nominating authority to retain the positions or employment of said officials or employees while the Commission is using their services.
The Commission is also authorized to contract the services of any official or employee of the Government of Puerto Rico or any of its departments, agencies, instrumentalities, bodies or political subdivisions, and to pay for the additional services rendered to the Commission after their regular working hours without being subject to the provisions of § 551 of Title 3.
The Commission may, with the approval of the Governor, entrust to any department, agency, bureau, division, authority, instrumentality, body or political subdivision of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, to perform any study or investigation, or any phase or part thereof, or to perform any other kind of work that is necessary for the discharge of its functions. The government body so entrusted shall give every priority possible to the completion of such study investigation or work. The government organization entrusted with such a study, investigation or work, may request and obtain from the Commission, if, in its judgment, it is necessary, upon prior authorization of the Governor, a transfer of funds in the amount the Commission may deem reasonable.
The Commission may appoint Advisory Committees in each of the municipalities of the country, constituted by citizens of those municipalities.
History —June 28, 1965, No. 102, p. 267, § 8; Sept. 3, 1996, No. 186, § 1.