P.R. Laws tit. 30, § 2055
Registrars shall hold office for the duration of their terms of appointment and until their successors take office.
If a Registrar becomes permanently disabled to discharge the duties of his office due to health reasons, he may be retired from service following the procedure established by the laws and regulations in effect.
The office of Registrar is absolutely incompatible with the exercise of the legal and notary profession. The performance of educational and academic duties is excluded/exempt from this prohibition.
Likewise, the Secretary may grant a dispensation to a Property Registrar to simultaneously hold another office or position in any of the agencies, departments, or public corporations of the Commonwealth, when both offices and positions are not incompatible, or when there is no possibility of conflict of interest. In such case, the Property Registrar shall not receive financial compensation for both offices; therefore, he shall resign to the wages corresponding to one of the offices in question. The designation of a Property Registrar to another office or position to be held simultaneously shall not affect nor interrupt the term of appointment corresponding to the office of Property Registrar.
Furthermore, the Secretary may grant a dispensation to a Property Registrar to hold another office or position in any of the agencies, departments, or public corporations of the Commonwealth, when both offices or positions are not incompatible, or when there is no possibility of conflict of interest. In such case, the Property Registrar shall be released from his duties, but shall retain, for all legal purposes, his position, condition, and rights as Property Registrar while discharging the duties of the office or position for which he has been granted a dispensation. The Property Registrar in question shall earn the wages corresponding to the office or position to which he has been appointed until he ceases his duties, in which case, he shall continue to earn the wages of Property Registrar. The reinstallation or reinstatement of this official shall not be considered for purposes of the maximum number of Property Registrars that may be appointed by law. On the other hand, the designation of said Property Registrar to another office or position shall not affect or interrupt his term of appointment as Property Registrar.
History —Mortgage Law, 1979, § 11; June 28, 2013, No. 38, § 7.