P.R. Laws tit. 3, § 144x

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§ 144x. Volunteer citizens

School directors shall keep, with the approval of school councils, a register of volunteer citizens willing to render non-teaching services in schools, as well as to exercise teaching functions during extended hours or as substitutes when teachers are absent.

Volunteers shall meet certain education and experience requirements in order to exercise the functions delegated [to] them; they shall not receive compensation for their work, except for the per diem that the Secretary may grant them in consideration of their labor.

In exercising their functions, volunteers shall be covered by State Insurance Fund health and hospitalization plans and protected under §§ 3077 et seq. of Title 32, regarding claims and actions against the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

History —July 15, 1999, No. 149, § 4.11.