P.R. Laws tit. 20, § 211b
The College shall have the power to:
(a) Subsist in perpetuity under that name; to sue and be sued as an [juridical] person.
(b) Possess and use a seal which it can alter at will.
(c) Adopt its internal bylaws, which shall be binding on all its members and to amend it in the form and under the requirements established therein.
(d) Acquire rights and real and personal properties; and any funds by donation, legacy, taxes on its own members, purchase, transfers, cessions, subsidies, appropriations, advances, loans or any other legal way, of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico as well as of the federal government or its agencies or from private persons or entities; and to possess, mortgage, lease, administer and dispose of said property in legal form and pursuant to its bylaws.
(e) Appoint the directors, officials or officers who shall constitute the Board of Governors, pursuant to what was adopted in the bylaws. The members of the Board of Female and Male Nurse Examiners of Puerto Rico, of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Nursing of the Department of Health and those who work at the College be it by regular appointment or by contract may not hold office as members of the Board of Governors. Neither may those persons who have been convicted of a felony or of a misdemeanor that entails moral turpitude or dishonesty or those persons who have been removed from office as officials of the governing bodies of the College for violations of their fiduciary duties or violations of the Code of Ethics that governs the nursing profession be members of the Board of Governors nor of any of the governing bodies of the College.
(f) Protect its members in the practice of their profession, and through the establishment of pension funds, insurance systems and special funds, or in any other legal way to help those college members who are unemployed or who retire for physical disability or old age and the heirs and beneficiaries of those who die.
(g) Adopt and implant with the Board the code of professional ethics which shall govern the conduct of College members.
(h) Receive and investigate complaints made under oath in regard to the conduct of its members in the practice of their profession and transmit them to the Governing Board, established in § 211f of this title, for action, after a preliminary hearing in which the defendant or his legal representative is allowed to bring his own witnesses and be heard; and if just cause is found, to institute the proper proceedings for suspension or cancellation of license before the Board for pertinent action. Nothing herein provided shall be construed as limiting or interfering with the Board’s power to conduct its own investigation.
(i) Exercise such incidental powers as may be necessary or advisable for the purposes of its establishment and which are not in conflict with §§ 211—211n of this title.
History —June 1, 1973, No. 82, p. 367, § 2; Sept. 15, 2004, No. 306, § 3.