P.R. Laws tit. 16, § 4043
Local Commissioners and Alternate Local Commissioners shall be appointed by the Commission at the request of the Election Commissioners of the political party they represent. Political party representatives shall be persons of recognized moral probity, and duly qualified voters in the election precinct to which they are appointed, but if there were more than one election precinct in a municipality, this requirement shall be met through their residence in said municipality. Furthermore, they cannot be aspirants or candidates for elective public office, with the exception of the candidacy for Municipal Legislator, nor may they wear the uniform of any military or paramilitary armed force while discharging duties as local commissioners or alternate local commissioners.
Each political party shall be entitled to have the Local Commissioner of each precinct who is an employee of the Government of Puerto Rico, or its agencies, instrumentalities, public corporations, and municipalities, assigned by the Commission upon petition to carry out full-time duties in the appropriate local commissions or to perform additional functions assigned by the Commission, such as canvass or recounts of the year in which the General Elections are held, beginning on July 1 st of the election year until the general canvass or recount is completed. The Commission may extend, by means of resolution, the scope of this provision to the holding of other election events, such as a Special Election, Plebiscites, or Referendums.
Likewise, the agencies of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico shall grant the time required by those employees who are Local Commissioners, without charging it to any kind of leave or docking their pay, to attend meetings called by the Local Commission that have been previously notified by such employees to their employers.
History —June 1, 2011, No. 78, § 5.003; Nov. 21, 2011, No. 230, § 9; Dec. 22, 2014, No. 239, § 15.