P.R. Laws tit. 3, § 441j
(a) No provision of this chapter shall be understood as modifying, altering or invalidating any resolution, agreement, claim or contract that the officers responsible of the agencies and programs transferred hereunder may have executed and which are in force upon the taking of effect of this act.
(b) Except as to the modifications that may be necessary in adjusting the agencies and programs transferred under this chapter to the departmental structure, the laws governing said agencies and programs shall continue in force, except those provisions which might be in conflict with this chapter, which are hereby repealed.
(c) All regulations governing the operation of the organizations, programs and functions transferred by this chapter and which are in force upon the taking of effect of this act shall continue in force until same be altered, modified, amended, repealed or substituted by the Secretary, pursuant to the law.
(d) The Governor is hereby authorized to adopt those transitory measures and to make the decisions that may be necessary for the purposes of making the transfers decreed by this chapter without interrupting the administrative procedures and the functions of any of the organizations and programs transferred.
(e) The Governor is likewise hereby authorized to designate temporarily an officer to coordinate in his name the pertinent actions to secure that the Department begins its operations without affecting the normal programming of said agency.
History —June 10, 1972, No. 97, p. 242, § 11, eff. Jan. 2, 1973.