P.R. Laws tit. 32, § 3092
The Secretary of Justice shall notify the Secretary of the Treasury of his determination regarding the payment, on the basis of the provisions of §§ 3085—3092a of this title. The Secretary of the Treasury shall pay the judgments, costs and attorney’s fees imposed on the defendants from available funds in the Treasury of Puerto Rico.
All the provisions of §§ 3077—3092a of this title, shall apply to the Executive Directors, former Executive Directors, the members and former members of the governing boards of public corporations and Government instrumentalities, the mayors and former mayors, and officials and former officials of the municipalities, as well as the members and former members of the Municipal Police Corps of its various ranks, except that the costs that they face with regard to said judgments, costs, fees, and expenses incurred by the Commonwealth in their legal representation shall be defrayed from available funds in the corresponding corporations and instrumentalities of the Government or municipality that represents or represented the respondent in question. In case the affected Government corporation or instrumentality, or municipality, does not have the necessary funds available to defray said amount, the Commonwealth shall make payment thereof. The Government corporation or instrumentality, or the municipality, shall subsequently reimburse said amount as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine with the advice of the Governing Board of the Government corporation or instrumentality, or the Municipal Legislature of the municipality.
The budgetary expenditures in terms of legal representation, as well as the payment of judgments, costs and attorney’s fees, which the aforesaid sections entail, shall not constitute an additional compensation for the public servants covered by said provisions.
History —June 29, 1955, No. 104, p. 550, added as § 19 on Nov. 26, 1975, No. 9, p. 953, § 1; July 21, 1977, No. 12, p. 564, § 1; July 10, 1986, No. 113, p. 358, § 5; July 30, 1999, No. 177, § 2.