P.R. Laws tit. 3, § 295j
Prosecutors and advocates may be admonished, severed, suspended from employment and salary or removed from office before the expiration of the tern for which they were appointed, subject to the procedure adopted through regulations, for the following reasons:
(a) Moral, improper or reprehensible conduct, including the use of their position for their own benefit;
(b) manifest professional incompetence or inability in the discharge of their functions and duties;
(c) mental or physical disability that affects the discharge of their functions when there is reasonable grounds to believe that the official in question is disabled or when there is a medical or judicial finding to that effect;
(d) evidence of illegal use of controlled substances;
(e) conviction for a felony or a misdemeanor, regardless of whether it implies moral turpitude or not;
(f) insubordination or dereliction of their duties, or
(g) failure to comply with the duties and functions imposed by law or administratively.
History —Aug. 9, 2004, No. 205, § 85.