P.R. Laws tit. 3, § 8781
It is hereby established that all heads of government agencies, departments, bureaus, offices, dependencies, instrumentalities, commissions, public corporations and its subsidiaries, as well as the mayors of the municipalities, the President and Speaker of the Legislative Bodies, and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall restrict cellular phone service contracts in their respective dependencies, exclusively for the limited use of the personnel that is part of a contingency plan in the case of an emergency, as well as for those officers who, due to the nature of their position or functions so require. In the case of the municipalities, the Municipal Legislatures shall establish through a municipal ordinance, those officers who shall have access to a cellular phone chargeable to the municipal budget taking into consideration the responsibilities and obligations of their office, within a term of sixty (60) days as of the effectiveness of this act.
No agency, government entity, public corporation or municipality may have expenses that exceed ten percent (10%) of that which represented the expenses for the use of cellular phones to December 31, 2004, with the only exception of the municipalities, in which case it shall be fifty percent (50%). The cellular phone units authorized, if any, shall be assigned to the personnel by the head or director of the agency or instrumentality, taking into consideration the duties and responsibilities of the position of said personnel. In the case of public officers or employees authorized to use cellular phones chargeable to the government budget, these persons shall render a monthly report of the personal calls made through the cellular phone and shall remit the payment corresponding to said personal use to the Secretary of the Treasury by means of a uniform mechanism to be established for such purpose by the Office of Management and Budget through regulations.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to those municipal governments whose Municipal Legislatures establish a savings plan for expenditures concerning cellular telephone services that adjusts to the particular needs of the respective municipal governments through the approval of an ordinance.
History —May 25, 2006, No. 105, § 2; Oct. 1, 2007, No. 139, § 1.