P.R. Laws tit. 16, § 622h
The Board of Election Comptrollers shall prepare and submit the budget of the Office of the Election Comptroller. The necessary funds to achieve the purposes of this chapter during the current fiscal year and subsequent fiscal years shall be earmarked every year in the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico General Expense Budget Act. All the moneys received by the Office of the Election Comptroller to carry out the task of implementing the provisions of this chapter, from the sources specified in this chapter and from any other sources, shall be covered into a Special Fund to be denominated as the “Special Fund of the Office of the Election Comptroller.” All funds, accounts, budget appropriations and surpluses in the power of the State Election Commission that have been allocated to the Office of the Election Auditor shall be transferred to the Office of the Election Comptroller immediately after the effective date of this act.
Every year, the Legislative Assembly shall provide the Office of the Election Comptroller with sufficient funds for its operations. Any surplus existing at the end of the fiscal year shall remain in the Special Fund of the Office of the Election Comptroller and shall not revert to the General Fund of the Government of Puerto Rico. For such purposes, the Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall submit to the consideration of the Legislative Assembly the General Expense Budget of the Office of the Election Comptroller for each fiscal year, which shall never be lower than that of the preceding year, unless the budget of the Government is decreased, in which case, it may be lower, but proportional to the budget reduction. The budget of the Office of the Election Comptroller shall be accounted with priority, as requested by the Election Comptroller. No general or special provision of law may be invoked to freeze the budget or accounts of the Office of the Election Comptroller nor to postpone expenditures or disbursements.
Before utilizing the resources deposited in the Special Fund, the Office of the Election Comptroller shall submit the expense budget every year for the Legislative Assembly’s approval. The resources of the Special Fund created to defray the regular operating expenses of the Office of the Election Comptroller shall be complemented with appropriations originating from the General Fund of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, if necessary.
History —Nov. 18, 2011, No. 222, § 3.008; July 3, 2012, No. 135, § 7; Dec. 19, 2014, No. 233, § 12.