P.R. Laws tit. 3, § 8751
This chapter shall be applicable to all agencies of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, whose budgets are defrayed, in whole or in part, chargeable to the General Fund. For the purposes of this chapter, the term “agencies” shall mean all bodies or instrumentalities and entities of the Executive Branch of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, to wit: departments, boards, commissions, administrations, offices, subdivisions and public corporations that are under the control of said Branch. This chapter shall also be applicable to the Legislature regarding the strict freezing of its operating expenses up to 2008, the non-approval of legislative initiatives that have an adverse fiscal impact on an agency, the use of public funds [for] cellular phones expenses, the limitation on the contracting of professional lobbying services, the restriction of public broadcasting expenses, and the implementation of other savings measure of their own initiative.
Likewise, this chapter shall also apply to the Puerto Rico Government Ethics Office and to the Office of the Comptroller of Puerto Rico regarding public policy, fiscal reform, prohibition of the use of debt, limit to the use of excess collections, approval of the General Budget of Expenses, disbursement of public funds after the approval of the General Budget of Expenses, prohibition to exceed the budget appropriated, use of the Budgetary Fund, and of the Emergency Fund, public funds for the payment of cellular phones, use of public funds for the payment of motor vehicles, use of public funds for the payment of professional lobbying services, public broadcasting expenses of the government, electronic transactions, legality and exactness of expenses, legislative prerogatives, and penalties.
History —May 25, 2006, No. 103, § 2, eff. July 1, 2006.