P.R. Laws tit. 20, § 3523
The Professional Planner College shall pursue the following purposes and objectives:
(a) To contribute in the improvement of the quality of life and the welfare of the Puerto Rican community.
(b) To develop and implement community orientation programs.
(c) To safeguard the rights and oversee the fulfillment of responsibilities by its members in all matters relative to the practice of the profession.
(d) To protect the interests of its members and promote their professional development by means of training sessions and continuing education courses that conform to their needs and to the requirements that may be established by the Examining Board, with the advice of the College.
(e) To promote and oversee the fulfillment of the ethical values that govern the profession and contribute in the drafting and implementation of the code of professional ethics.
(f) To acknowledge outstanding or meritorious professional actions or contributions and the ethical collaboration of College members as regards the institution, the profession and the Puerto Rican community.
(g) To promote a relationship of brotherhood among its members.
(h) To strengthen the esprit de corps and the sense of commitment of its members by stimulating the development of a broad and firm professional conscience.
(i) To foster attitudes that lead members to work as a group and get involved.
(j) To favor the development of strategies for the problem solving through a committee with modular functions.
(k) To stimulate excellence in the practice of professional planning, in order to promote the full development of communities and to protect the public from the improper application of this profession.
(l) To contribute to furthering the concept and the process of planning in Puerto Rico.
(m) To collaborate with the Legislature, the municipalities and government entities in matters relative to legislation and regulation of the practice of planning in Puerto Rico.
(n) To discharge advisory functions in Committees, render reports, offer specialized technical consulting services, and engage in other endeavors when these are directed to the community and the Commonwealth and properly represent the public interest.
(o) To collaborate with educational, university and technological institutions of the Island towards the advancement of education and knowledge as pertains to planning by promoting, subsidizing and developing research and studies and by holding related activities.
(p) To promote and establish exchange relations with national and international professional institutions that pursue similar purposes within certain rules of solidarity and courtesy.
(q) To further any other initiative that conforms to the purposes of the institution and the duties and rights conferred by this chapter.
History —Apr. 30, 2008, No. 51, § 4.